Curry - Contracting for Services in State and Local Government Agencies

Contracting for
Services in State and
Local Government
Agencies

This second edition of Contracting for Services in State and Local Government Agencies provides state-of-the-art tools for best practice in the procurement of services at state and local levels, from initial stages through to completion. Including lively case studies and research conducted with state and local agencies across the United States, this book provides management advice and tips on compliance to reduce costs, selecting the best-qualified contractors, manage contractors performance, and prevent corruption and waste.

Utilizing the results of new research in all fifty states, author William Sims Curry offers updated best-practice documents, methodologies, and templates including: a Request for Proposal (RFP), a scorecard for proposals to select the best-qualified contractor, a toolkit for meeting socioeconomic contracting goals without compromising price, quality, or on-time delivery, and a Model Services Contract (MSC). Special consideration is given to obtaining services and products in states of emergency. Several additional resources for practitioners are available online, including sample contracts and a straightforward, inexpensive tool for tracking contractors progress and cost management.

The roadmap and templates contained in this book and available online to readers will prove essential to state and local government agency contracting professionals and other officials and employees called upon to participate in the drafting of solicitations, writing sole source justifications, writing scopes of work, serving on advance contract planning and source selection teams, recommending award of contracts, or assisting in the management of those contracts.

William Sims Curry is President of WSC Consulting, a small business specializing in consulting on government contracting. Curry served as an Air Force systems procurement officer and was employed in purchasing management for prime contractors on NASAs Hubble Space Telescope, DOEs Positron Electron Project, and numerous DOD programs. He has authored three books and numerous articles and research papers on government contracting. Curry is a Certified Professional Contracts Manager (CPCM) and a fellow by the National Contract Management Association (NCMA).

Curry has written a book of both practical and academic importance. He provides a how-to for state and local government managers that takes into account the best practices in government contracting and procurement. The text includes templates and planning documents for many of the important stages of the contracting process. For scholars, Curry unpacks a complex process that will encourage more than a decade of thoughtful investigation and lead to useful theoretic insights.

Jessica N. Terman, George Mason University, USA

With the relative paucity of state and local guides for service contracting out there, Curry does much more than justice to the contracting field in those two venues. As someone with twenty-five years in federal contracting, I suggest that federal practitioners might also use this publication in the conduct of their craft. I used the previous edition for teaching contracting students and found it full of exemplars, documentation and practical examples which could be applied to any COs particular situation and infused with federal contract law to assist federal practitioners in understanding why. I find this new edition even more useful in this way. Thank you Mr. Curry for the update of a timely, comprehensive and extremely useful publication!

Frank Spampinato, Old Dominion University, USA

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Contracting
for Services in
State and Local
Government
Agencies

Second Edition

William Sims Curry

First published 2016
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Names: Curry, William Sims, author.
Title: Contracting for services in state and local government agencies / by William Sims Curry.
Description: Second edition. | New York : Routledge, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references and index
Identifiers: LCCN 2015045376| ISBN 9781498738033 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781315621791 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Contracting outUnited StatesStates. | County servicesUnited StatesContracting out. | Municipal servicesUnited StatesContracting out. | Public contractsUnited StatesStates.
Classification: LCC HD3861.U6 C87 2016 | DDC 352.5/382130973dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015045376

ISBN: 978-1-498-73803-3 (hbk)
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The subject matter included in this book should not be considered as legal advice for specific cases or for general legal guidance. Readers should seek such advice from their own legal counsel. The material in this text is provided solely for educational and informational purposes. However, all possible circumstances could not be anticipated; therefore, individual situations may require further evaluation prior to application of the solutions or recommendations presented herein.