Procurement requirements are generally aimed at maximizing the efficiency of the process, reducing opportunities for corruption and encouraging open competition.7 The selection process should be specified, creating a fair and transparent set of tender rules, with limited exceptions allowing direct negotiations, mechanisms for implementing unsolicited proposals (or rejecting them entirely-see section 4), and the applicable regime for challenging project awards.
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7 For further discussion of public procurement requirements, see section 4 and 5 of Scriven, Pritchard and Delmon (eds), A Contractual Guide to Major Construction Projects (1999).