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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Fighting Corruption in Public Procurement: A Comparative Analysis of Disqualification or Debarment Measures by Sope Williams-Elegbe
This book examines the issues and challenges raised by the debarment or disqualification of corrupt suppliers from public contracts. Implementing a disqualification mechanism in public procurement raises serious practical and conceptual difficulties including: determining whether a conviction for corruption should be a pre-requisite to disqualification; balancing the tension between granting adequate procedural safeguards to a supplier in disqualification proceedings and not delaying the procurement process; and determining the scope of the disqualification - should it apply to firms natural persons subcontractors subsidiaries or other persons related to the corrupt firm; and should disqualification lead to the termination of existing contracts. The book compares and contrasts the legal practical and institutional approaches to the disqualification mechanism in the EU UK USA Republic of South Africa and World Bank.