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Article: No real competition: compulsory competitive tendering in Victorian Regional Library Corporations.
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- Australasian Public Libraries and Information Services
- Article date:
- December 1, 2001
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With the passing of the Local government (competitive tendering) act 1994 Victoria's public library sector became the first in the world to be exposed to compulsory competitive tendering (CCT). As a consequence, between 1996 and 1999, a large number of Victorian public library services were tendered out and subsequently managed on a contractual basis. The contract based model of governance was unique to Victoria and has not been replicated on the same scale anywhere else in the world. Competition for the contracts was almost nonexistent, with no interest from the public sector and little interest in existing library services bidding for contracts in neighbouring areas. The ...