When the exception becomes the norm : Direct awards to IT vendors by the Swiss public sector

Matthias Stürmer; Oliver Krancher; Thomas Myrach

When the exception becomes the norm : Direct awards to IT vendors by the Swiss public sector

Matthias Stürmer, Oliver Krancher, Thomas Myrach

Publikation: Konferencebidrag - EJ publiceret i proceeding eller tidsskrift › Paper › Forskning › peer review

Abstract

Public sector procurement of IT often happens without public tendering because of vendor lock-in, as our ongoing research suggests. We have analyzed 2754 IT procurement projects during the last 7 years on the official Swiss electronic tendering platform. The results indicate that 47.2% of these projects involved contracts above WTO threshold awarded to external IT suppliers without bidding procedure. This is mainly caused by the lack of alternative IT suppliers being able to support existing IT systems. In this paper we introduce a new method for measuring IT vendor lock-in and we present descriptive results including a time series analysis. We find a higher share of direct awards in IT projects than in non-IT projects.

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Publikationsdato	2017
Status	Udgivet - 2017
Udgivet eksternt	Ja
Begivenhed	10th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV) - New York, USA Varighed: 7 mar. 2017 → …

Konference

Konference	10th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV)
Land/Område	USA
By	New York
Periode	07/03/2017 → …

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Public sector procurement
IT vendor lock-in
Electronic tendering
Time series analysis
Procurement without competition

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When the exception becomes the norm : Direct awards to IT vendors by the Swiss public sector. / Stürmer, Matthias; Krancher, Oliver; Myrach, Thomas.
2017. Afhandling præsenteret på 10th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV) , New York, USA.

Publikation: Konferencebidrag - EJ publiceret i proceeding eller tidsskrift › Paper › Forskning › peer review

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When the exception becomes the norm : Direct awards to IT vendors by the Swiss public sector

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