| Abstract [eng] |
Centralization of Public Procurement: Searching for Optimal Approach (Lithuanian Case) This study focuses on the possibilities to increase the effectiveness of Lithuania’s public procurement system. Primary objective of the study is to find out whether the model of centralized procurement adopted by Lithuanian Government and the establishment of the Central Procurement Organization will benefit solving the existing problems and shaping a more effective and transparent public procurement system. Maintaining the objective the hypothesis, that the implementation of centralized public procurement system will make the public procurement organizing more effective, has been drawn. Seeking to verify the hypothesis, the main objective of this study has to be dissolved to several more narrow goals: 1. Detect the disadvantage of centralized and decentralized public procurement systems with reference to the experience of foreign countries; 2. Analyze and compare the cases of centralized public procurement systems of Italy and Denmark; 3. Study the problems of existing public procurement system in Lithuania; 4. Analyze the centralized public procurement system’s implementation possibility in Lithuania and its subsequent consequences relying on the ground of Italy’s and Denmark’s cases; 5. Present proposals on the effectiveness/purposefulness of establishment of centralized procurement system in Lithuania. This study aims to demonstrate that the system would be more effective if public procurement was centralized because the centralized system is less sensitive to risks, what increases the transparency, assures the accountability and helps to save the budgetary resources. Also the quality of orders and procurement procedures raises, information sharing enables a more effective and operative processing of possessed information, which determines the lower cost of goods and services and also decreases the scale of corruption. The centralized procurement systems of Italy and Denmark are studied in this paper. And the main question of this paper, whether centralization of public procurement in Lithuania will come up to expectations, is answered based on the abovementioned analysis. This study is comprised of three parts. The first part is intended to analyze and compare the two models of public procurement system: centralized and decentralized and to single out the pros and cons of each model. The cases of centralized public procurement systems of Italy and Denmark will be studied in the second part of this paper. The third part is devoted to the analysis of the Lithuania case. The hypothesis of the paper, that the implementation of centralized public procurement system will make the public procurement organizing more effective, has proven out and is illustrated by the research and the consequent means of solving the present problems and the potential benefit to the consumer and the state. |
