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Serco's history and market presence has helped enable the Institute to build up a broad range of material on the US market, including policy documents, research papers and cost savings analysis.
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Noteworthy PPPs in 2009 (PDF) Gilroy, Leonard, 2009 Reason A review of "noteworthy public-private partnership (PPP) infrastructure projects that have advanced in 2009." UK
Annual Privatization Report 2009 (PDF) Leonard C. Gilroy (Ed.), 2009 Reason Foundation
The annual privatisation report from US think tank Reason invariably provides a welcome overview of how the public service reform agenda is progressing in the USA. This report covers the latest news and trends at federal, state and local level, and covers sectors including transport, education telecommunications, health, prisons, wate and land use.
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Annual Privatization Report 2008 (PDF)
Edited by Leonard C. Gilroy, 2008
Reason Foundation
Annual Privatization Report 2007 (PDF) Gilroy, Leonard C. (ed), 2007 Reason Foundation USA
Closing America's Infrastructure Gap: The Role of Public-Private Partnerships (PDF) Eggers, William D. and Dovey, Tiffany, 2007 Deloitte A report on how governments in the US can apply PPPs as a tool to help finance major infrastructure projects. US
Creating Momentum in Contracting Management-The Acquisition Innovation Handbook (PDF) Private Sector Council, 2006 Partnership for Public Service This is the first edition of the Acquisition Innovation Handbook. In detail, it looks at what is felt is the three key aspects to successful post-award contract management; a sustainable and accountable partnership, infrastructure for success, and a system of measures to monitor and improve performance. The handbook is intended to be used as a guide for improving contract management. USA
Annual Privatization Report 2006 (PDF) Gilroy, Leonard C., 2006 Reason Foundation USA
Local Government Contract Management and Performance Survey: A Report Fernandez, Sergio & Rainey, Hal G., 2005 The Municipal Year Book 2005; International City/County Management Association ISBN: 0-87326-851-2 USA
2005 Annual Privatization Report: Chronicling Developments in Privatization, Outsourcing, and Government Reform for 19 Years. A Project of Reason Foundation, the World Leader in Privatization Segal, Geoffrey F. (Ed), 2005 Reason Institute USA
Citizen's Budget 2003-2005: A 10-Point Plan to balance the California Budget and protect Quality of Life Priorities The Performance Institute, DeMaio, Carl (Project Director), 2005 Reason Institute USA
Noncompetitive Federal Contracts Increase Under the Bush Administration United States House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform-Minority , 2004 Staff Special Investigations Division Prepared for Rep. Henry A. Waxman USA
Hands Up For School Choice! (PDF) Hockley, Tony, and Nieto, Daniel, 2004 Policy Exchange & Localis This report from the Policy Exchange reviews evidence from around the world on choice-provision in the education market, seeking to devise ways in which school voucher schemes might be expanded in the UK. The study includes both the short-lived nursery vouchers in the UK in 1996/7 and much larger school choice in Sweden, the Netherlands and several American states. UK
Competitive Contracting for Highway Maintenance: Lessons Learned from National Experience- A Critique of the Washington Department Transport Report, 'Synopsis of WSDOT's Review of Highway Maintenance Outsourcing Experience.' Segal, Geoffrey F. and Montague, Eric, 2004 Reason Public Policy Institute (RPPI) This report from the Reason Public Policy Institute (RPPI) compares the Washington Department of Transportation (WSDOT) report with a study from the RPPI consisting of the views of officials and the private sector on their state's competitive contracting programmes. USA
Choice: The Evidence (PDF)
Williams, Jonathan and Rossiter, Ann (Eds), 2004
Social Market Foundation (SMF)
This report provides an evidence-based analysis of choice policies in health and education. It presents research findings from a range of studies on the impact of choice, and draws conclusions about their further introduction in the UK. In particular it examines how well user-choice has been implemented, how well it has worked and the benefits and disadvantages it has delivered in the UK, Sweden, the US, Chile and New Zealand. It also identifies the conditions under which user-choice policies have flourished. The full report can be downloaded via this web page link.
Delivering Better Education (PDF)
Tooley, James, Dixon, Pauline and Stansfield, James, 2003
Adam Smith Institute
This report formed part of the Adam Smith Institute's 'Better Education Project'. It shows the practical benefits that education choice has brought in other countries, demonstrating how the same choice and competition that are already improving school standards in disadvantaged communities are applicable to the UK. Nations studied include the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Hong Kong, the United States and Canada.
Moving Toward Market-Based Government: The Changing Role of Government as the Provider (PDF) Gansler, J.S., 2003 IBM Endowment for The Business of Government USA
Critical Choices: The Debate Over Public Private Partnerships and What it Means for America's Future (PDF) National Council for Public Private Partnerships (NCPPP), 2003 USA
Tapping Public Assets: Frequently Asked Questions about Selling or Leasing Infrastructure Assets Steckler, Steve A.; Joyner, John E. and Woolf, Brian F. , 2003 Reason Foundation, Policy Study 303 Project Director Adriane T. Moore. USA
Competitive Sourcing: Reasoned and Responsible Public-Private Competition (PDF) Executive Office of the President Office of Management and Budget, 2003 USA
Military Operations: Contractors Provide Vital Services to Deployed Forces but Are Not Adequately Addressed in DOD Plans
United States General Accounting Office , 2003
Competitive Sourcing: Conducting Public-Private Competition in a Reasoned and Responsible Manner Office of Management and Budget (OMB), 2003 Describes the Administration's strategy for institutuionalising public-private competition as an efficient and effective management tool. USA
Competitive Sourcing: Proposed Revisions to OMB Circular A-76 United States General Accounting Office (GAO), 2003 Letter form the Controller General of the United States to the Director of the Office of management and Budget, outlining GAO's assessment of proposed changes to OMB Circular A-76, as well as their recommendations for how the proposal could be improved. GAO-03-391R USA
Private Competition for Public Services: Unfinished Agenda in New York State (PDF) McMahon, E. J.; Moore, Adrian and Segal Geoffrey F., 2003 Centre for Civic Innovation at the Manhattan Institute This report examines the scope for competition in the delivery of government services in New York and the principles behind a good competitive process. It also looks at what the state can learn from other governments' competitive contracting models such as the federal government model and the model of the Commonwealth of Virginia. USA
National Strategy For Homeland Security (PDF) Office of Homeland Security, 2002 USA
Performance of Commercial Activities Executive Office to The President: Office of Management and Budget, Washington DC, 2002 Circular No. A-76 (Revised) Draft USA
Designing a Performance-Based Competitive Sourcing Process for the Federal Government: 37 Proposed Changes to Regulations and Approaches to Competing and outsourcing Commercial Activities in Government
DeMaio, Car D.; Moore, Adrian and Badolato, Vincent , 2002
The Perfomance Institute and Reason Foundation
Public-Private Education Facilities and Infrastructure Act of 2002 (Web Page) Stosch, Walter A. , 2002 The Public Private Education Facilities and Infrastructure Act grants public entities the authority to create public-private partnerships for the development of a wide range of projects in education and infrastructure. The law enables public entities to determine when there is a need for a project so that they are able to call upon the services of private sector companies to gain from the benefits that they can offer in providing a public service. US
Commercial Activities Panel (CAP) Final Report: Improving the Sourcing Decisions of the Government
Commercial Activities Panel (CAP), 2002
Cities Continue to Increase Extent and Scope for Contracting for Services (PDF) Johnson, Robin A. and Waltzer, Norman, 2000 Illinois Municipal Review Magazine, pp9-10 This article examines the recent trend in intergovernmental agreements and contracting with private firms in Illinois. It shows a steady increase in the use of contracting. The article also looks at the factors that have led to contracting, and whether privatisation has increased the quality of services. The authors conclude that contracting agreements are occurring without negative effects and further contracting in the future is expected. USA
Michigan Privatisation Report (Web Page) Bardallis, David and LaFaive, Michael, 2001 Mackinac Centre for Public Policy: No. 2000-04 This quarterly report looks at the developments in privatisation in the state of Michigan. This issue includes articles on water privatisation, steps to successful outsourcing and privatised garbage pickup. ISSN 1092-7999 USA
Cutting Costs: A Compendium of Competitive Know-How and Privatisation Source Materials Eggers, William D; Burke, Timothy J.; Moore Adrian T.; Tradewell,; Richard L.; and Munro, Douglas P., 1999 Calvert Institute for Policy Research This particular edition of the Calvin Issue Brief focuses on the problems of inefficient expenditure in Baltimore City. Naming privatisation to be one of the solutions to Baltimore's problems, the issue looks extensively at privatisation in different sectors. It identifies the best practices of privatisation in the country and suggests guidelines for the process of implementing it in various sectors. USA
Reforming Financial Management in the Public Sector: Lessons U.S. Officials Can Learn From New Zealand (Web Page) Ball, Ian; Dale, Tony; Eggers, William D; Sacco, John, 1999 Reason Public Policy Insitutute A report that analyzes New Zealand's public sector reform, emphasizing the Financial Management components of the reform with the aim of persuading U.S. policymakers on embarking on the task of overhauling and modernizing their financial management and accounting systems. USA
Capital Budgeting in the States (PDF) National Association of State Budget Officers, 1999 USA
Reinventing Government: A Fifth-Year Report Card (PDF) Kettl, Donald F., 1998 The Brookings Institution This report looks at the progress that has been made in the National Performance Review (NPR) campaign. Generally the report offers a mixed review of the NPR. It does accept that the NPR has promoted greater attention to customer service and performance, in the process borrowing heavily from private sector techniques. One of the largest problems that the report identifies with the efforts to reinvent government is that NPR has found little help from the private sector despite its theory being based on the sector's ideas. Certain techniques in particular require greater attention such as benchmarking and restructuring. USA
Privatization: Lessons Learned by State and Local Governments (PDF) United States General Accounting Office, 1997 Report to the Chairman, House Republican Task Force on Privatization USA
Privatization of Municipal Services in Illinois (Web Page) Johnson, Robin A. and Walzer, Norman, 1996 Illinois Municipal Review pp19-21 A report based on the results of a local government survey on privatisation efforts and related issues in Illinois. UK
Privatization of Municipal Services in Illinois (I) Johnson, Robin A. and Walzer, Norman, 1995 Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs A survey of local governments in Illinois on their privatisation efforts and related issues. USA
Creating a Government That Works Better and Costs Less-Report of the National Performance Review Vice President Al Gore, 1993 Times Books The National Performance Review focuses on changing government through four main characteristics: cutting red tape, putting the customer first, empowering employees to get results and cutting back to basics. Together this quartet promotes exposing the government to external competition, using market mechanisms and involving government leaders. The change suggested is radical, and it is anticipated that reform is likely to be a long and gradual process. ISBN 0 8129 2365 0 USA
Reinventing Government-How the Entrepreneurial Spirit is Transforming the Public Sector Osborne, David and Gaebler, Ted, 1992 Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc This book outlines a new way of governing public services. Criticising the state of US public services, it proposes a system of entrepreneurial government with a public sector that is decentralized, innovative, flexible and adaptable. The book states ten principles which underlie such reform. These include competitive government with involvement from both the public and the private sector, customer-driven government, and market-orientated government. The book has been an important document in pioneering modern ideas about public service reform in many countries, including the UK, where its ideas have been adopted by recent governments. ISBN 0 201 52394 9 USA
Privatization and Public Employees: The Impact of City and County Contracting Out on Government Workers Dudek and Company, 1988 National Commission for Employment Policy A study on contracting out and its effect on employees based on interviews with officials from a sample of 17 cities and counties. USA
Delivering Municipal Services Efficiently: A Comparison of Municipal and Private Sector Delivery Stevens, Barbara J., Editor, 1984 U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy and Research USA