In Risk Management in Public Contracting, Elisabeth Wright,
Ph.D., CPCM, offers a concise yet thorough overview of risk and
risk management in public sector contracting. Emphasizing the fluid
environment of contracting and contract management, Ms. Wright underscores
how planning, monitoring, anticipating change, and proactive oversight
immediately impact the success of contract's stated outcomes. Risk
Management in Public Contracting not only defines risk in the
procurement cycle, but provides a theoretical background for understanding
the nature of risk. Identitfying a framework and methodology for
managing risk ensures the sucess of both the public agency and the
government supplier.
Please contact Fuad Abutaleb at fabutaleb@nigp.org
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William D. Davison, CPPO Elisabeth Wright, Ph. D., CPCM NIGP
As Public Procurement Officials Control 23% of the United States
Gross National Product through an annual acquisition of $2.1 trillion
in goods and services. Contract Administration text has been developed
by NIGP to provide a bridge between those who operate within the
public sector and academia as a first step toward identifying the
body of knowledge associated with public procurement. The Focus
of "Contract Administration" is the achievement of stated
goals and objectives through contract performance. The field embraces
a longstanding recognition of three broad goals: a quality product,
on time, and within budget. Quality contract administration must
take a two-pronged approach: process and product focus. With emphasis
on process and dependent on the specifics of any contractual arrangement,
this book will prove to be a valuable tool for developing a strong
understanding of the complexities of contract administration and
recognize the importance of planning, monitoring, and proactive
insight into and oversight of contract performance for the public
procurement professional. It is one of six within the NIGP Foundation
offerings in the Learning and Education to Advance Procurement Curriculum.
(163 pages)
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to place an order for this book
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He graduated from the Mongolian Military Academy and the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California.
Prior to this posting, he served as a specialist at the Strategic Planning and Policy Directorate and Foreign
Cooperation Department of the Ministry of Defense, as well as Senior National Representative to the U.S. Central Command.
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This book investigates whether an international institution
can alter state behavior and thereby contribute to the peaceful
resolution of a conflict. Dombroski focuses on the series of
interrelated peacekeeping efforts undertaken to help resolve
the Arab-Israeli conflict from 1948–1994. Analyzing these sequential
operations over a forty-six year period provides evidence as to the
relative importance of institutions in a state-centric international
system. He offers an alternative approach to the study of international
peacekeeping that evaluates the long-term effects of peacekeeping on state
behavior, and concomitantly, the effects of varying state behavior on an
international regime. This book offers new perspectives on the relative
importance of regimes, the utility of regime analysis in explaining the
importance of international institutions, the significance of a peacekeeping
regime's role in influencing state behavior, and the impact of varying state
behavior on regime evolution.
Elisabeth Wright, Ph. D., CPCM 
