4th International Public Procurement

Towards a New Horizon in Public Procurement

Call for Paper/Panel Proposals

The 4th International Conference of Public Procurement (IPPC2010) will be hosted by the Korean Public Procurement Service in Seoul, South Korea, August 26-28, 2010. The Korean Public Procurement Service will allocate a substantial budget to support this conference, which is also co-sponsored by various organizations including The Asian Development Bank, The World Bank, the United Nations Development Programme, The National Institute of Governmental Purchasing, Inc. (USA), Consip (Italy), the Naval Postgraduate School (USA), The U.S. General Service Administration, PrAcademics Press (USA), Florida Atlantic University, etc. With these various sources of funding, the Organizing Committee will (a) increase dollar values and number of best paper awards, (b) cover travel and hotel expenses of selected paper presenters from developing countries, (c) provide complimentary meals for the entire conference period, and (d) provide free transportation from airport and conference hotels.
The 4th Conference aims at extending and deepening the topics of major interests that arose from the previous conferences (see www.ippa.ws), by selecting theoretical, empirical, practical and institutional contributions on a variety of topics. 

Call for Paper Proposals (up to 150 words)

We welcome papers that focus on—but are not limited to:

• Public procurement and economic recession: public procurement as an economic stimulation tool, initiatives, and problems;
• Globalization and harmonization in public procurement policy and practices;
• Public procurement and institutions (law, politics, public finance);
• Public procurement capacity building, assessment and reforms);
• Public asset management and disposals and public procurement;
• Public procurement and project management;
• Procurement and innovation (new technologies, e-procurement, firms’ investments in R&D/innovation);
• The role of standards in procurement markets;
• Accountability and transparency (preventing corruption, ethical codes) in public procurement;
• Competition and procurement (impact on SMEs, competitiveness, antitrust);
• Procurement processes  and  performances;
• Public tendering  (procedures, auction design);
• Handling socio-economic concerns in public procurement policies (environment, employment, SMEs);
• Administration of public procurement (structures, policies, centralization, decentralization);
• Corporate governance models and public procurement;
• Public procurement professionalization; and
• Lessons learned (case studies).

Panel Proposals

We also welcome panel proposals for very current themes. The panel proposers are responsible for inviting experts in those specific themes. Each panel should have three papers, a panel chair and a discussant. For example, there will be a panel on public asset management: a comparative perspective (each panellist presents his/her country’s asset management system). Proposals should include the themes and names of panellists and panellists’ paper titles. 

Best Paper Awards

There are three best paper awards, with $5,000 for the 1st best paper, $3,000 for the 2nd best paper, and $1,000 for the 3rd best paper. In addition, there may be awards for students’ and practitioners’ best papers.

Submissions:

Proposals should be submitted electronically to www.ippc2010.kr before August 31, 2009.  Full papers shall be submitted before March 1, 2010.
Nine selected papers will be published in two special issue of the Journal of Public Procurement and 20 selected papers will be published in an edited book, Towards a New Horizon in Public Procurement. According to our IPPC tradition, copies of these publications will be ready for distributions at the conference. The Korean Public Procurement Service will send a complimentary copy to central procurement offices of all nations in the world. Moreover, all papers presented at the 4th IPPC will be posted at our IPPC website (www.ippa.ws).