Government Contracting: Ethical Promises and Perils in Public Procurement, Edition 3
About this ebook
This third edition incorporates the results of a new nationwide study into best public procurement practice, as well as recent examples of real-world procurement fraud cases, offering recommendations for procurement practices to deter fraud. Public procurement tools such as requests for proposals, pro forma contracts, proposal evaluation forms, sole source justification and approval forms, and other useful tools including PowerPoint presentations are provided on a website to accompany the book. This textbook is aimed at postgraduate students and academics working in the fields of public administration, policy and procurement, along with public procurement professionals.
About the author
William Sims Curry is President of WSC Consulting, a small business specializing in consulting on government procurement. Curry served as an Air Force systems procurement officer and was employed in purchasing management for prime contractors on NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, DOE’s Positron Electron Project, and numerous DoD programs. He has authored three books and numerous articles and research papers on government procurement. Curry is a Certified Professional Contracts Manager (CPCM) and a Fellow by the National Contract Management Association (NCMA).
