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Competitive tendering in the Scottish National Health Service Was it compulsory, and did it make a difference?(*)

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  • Robin Milne
  • Robin Wright

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This paper examines the implementation of competitive tendering in the Scottish National Health Service. Data relating to cleaning, catering and laundering services-- the three services targeted for competitive tendering--are examined. Our analysis suggests that for the first four years the request to market test was largely ignored in Scotland. In 1987 it become a management requirement, and within three years of its fresh start implementation of this policy more than matched the corresponding experience in England.

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  • Robin Milne & Robin Wright, 1999. "Competitive tendering in the Scottish National Health Service Was it compulsory, and did it make a difference?(*)," Working Papers 1999_11, Business School - Economics, University of Glasgow.
    • Handle: RePEc:gla:glaewp:1999_11
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    1. Luis Angeles & Robin G Milne, 2015. "Tracking cost savings from competitive tendering in the short and long run," Working Papers 2015_19, Business School - Economics, University of Glasgow.
    2. Luis Angeles & Robin G. Milne‌, 2015. "Tracking cost savings from competitive tendering in the short and long run," Working Papers 2015_11, Business School - Economics, University of Glasgow.
    3. Angeles, Luis & Milne, Robin G., 2015. "Tracking cost savings from competitive tendering in the short and long run," SIRE Discussion Papers 2015-74, Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE).

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