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

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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.

Original language	English
Publication date	2017
Publication status	Published - 2017
Externally published	Yes
Event	10th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV) - New York, United States Duration: 7 Mar 2017 → …

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Conference	10th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV)
Country/Territory	United States
City	New York
Period	07/03/2017 → …

Keywords

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. Paper presented at 10th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV) , New York, United States.

Research output: Contribution to conference - NOT published in proceeding or journal › Paper › Research › peer-review

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