1. A Pro-competition, Anti-corruption Program for Public Procurement
William E. Kovacic
George Washington University/King’s College London
ACF 13th Annual Conference
Hong Kong, 11 December 2017

2. This Morning’s Agenda Why Care? Difficulties Solutions
Caveat: Personal Views Only
Contact:

3. Some Findings Based on Joint Work
Alison Jones
Marianela Lopez-Galdos
Special Thanks
Damos Anderson
Emma Cronenweth

4. Procurement: Why Care?
Big Money
Large Economic Harm
Enduring Cynicism

5. Car Wash: Brazil The Unanticipated Corruption Case What’s at Stake?
At home
In the region
Globally
Rank: Current Competition Cases
Rank: Competition Cases since 1889

6. Leonard Francis: “Fat Leonard”

7. The Fat Leonard Case: United States
Marine Services for US Navy in Asian Region
Hundreds of Millions of Dollars
Dozens of US Navy Officers and Procurement Officials
Corrosive Public Cynicism

8. Possible Policy Improvements
Trip-wires and Remedies
Personnel
Cooperation Networks at Home and Abroad
Common Research Agenda

9. Difficulties for Anti-Collusion and Anti-Corruption
Politically Explosive
Example: Indonesia
Anti-Corruption: Frankenstein’s Monster
Examples: Brazil and Ukraine
Cooperation Transaction Costs

10. Better Trip-wires and Remedies
Trip Wires: False Statements, False Claims
Certificate of Independent Pricie Determination
Bounties: Qui Tam Mechanism of the US Civil False Claims Act

11. Personnel
Procurement Teams
Competition Agencies

12. Cooperation at Three-Levels: Antitrust, Procurement, Anti-Corruption
Top Leadership
Senior Managers
Program-level
Case Handlers
Specific matters

13. Methods Commonality Devices Interagency Case Teams Secondments
Guidelines
Studies
Consultations

14. Common Global Research Agenda
Case Assessments
Compare: Electrical equipment, lysine
Compliance: accident reconstructions
Patterns in governance, management (“rogues”?)
Market Studies
Data Reporting and Collection: e.g., Chemicals
Comparative Study: The Course
Former officials, case studies