Do procurement rules impact infrastructure investment efficiency? : An empirical analysis of inversão das fases in são paulo state / Luis Blancas
Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Publisher: Washington, D.C : The World Bank, 2011Description: Online-Ressource (33 p)Additional physical formats: Blancas, Luis: Do procurement rules impact infrastructure investment efficiency? DOI: DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-5528Online resources: Summary: As a means to reduce delays in public works implementation, a number of Brazilian states have recently reformed their procurement rules allowing contractor price proposals to be assessed before the technical evaluation of submitted bids is undertaken (in a procedure known as inversão das fases). In order to evaluate the effects of such reform, this paper adopts a difference-in-differences methodology to compare the procurement performance of São Paulo state (a reformer state) and Minas Gerais' (a non-reformer state) largest water and sewage utility along three efficiency dimensions: (i) procurement process duration; (ii) likelihood of complaint resolution litigation; and (iii) prices paid to contractors. The analysis finds that the reform is associated with a 24 day reduction in the duration of procurement processes for large projects and a 7 percentage point drop in the likelihood of court challenges irrespective of project size. Although both effects are economically important, only the latter is statistical significant. Finally, the paper finds no evidence of an effect of the procurement reform on prices paidPPN: PPN: 834969130Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-1-WBA | ZDB-110-WBLNo physical items for this record
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