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Contracting out

Here are entered works on the practice by government agencies and business organizations of hiring a contractor to perform parts of an operation rather than performing the tasks themselves. Works on the engagement of third parties to perform all or specified parts of the work required in another, primary contract are entered under Subcontracting.

See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.

• Letting of contracts

• Privatization
• Public contracts

• Contracting out -- Australia
• Contracting out -- Management
• Contracting out -- United States
• Logistics -- Contracting out
• Postwar reconstruction -- Contracting out

• Contracting for services
• Contract services
• Outsourcing
• Services, Contracting for

• Managing Consultants: A Practical Guide for Busy Public Sector Managers (2006), by Leo Dobes (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)

• Assessing Contractor Use in Superfund (1989), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Collaboration, Technology, and Outsourcing Initiatives in Higher Education: A Literature Review, by Tessa Kaganoff (PDF at rand.org)

• Empire's Labor: The Global Army That Supports U.S. Wars (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2019), by Adam Moore (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Private Security Contractors at War: Ending the Culture of Impunity (New York and Washington: Human Rights First, c2008), by Scott Horton, Kevin Lanigan, and Michael McClintock (PDF at Wayback Machine)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Private Enterprise in China (c2012), by Ross Garnaut, Ligang Song, Yang Yao, and Xiaolu Wang (PDF with commentary at ANU E Press)
• China's Emerging Private Enterprises: Prospects for the New Century (Washington: International Finance Corporation, 2000), by Neil F. Gregory, Stoyan Tenev, and Dileep M. Wagle (PDF at worldbank.org)

• The Global Political Economy of Israel (London and Sterling, VA: Pluto Press, 2002), by Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler (PDF with commentary at York)

• Privatization and Political Change in Mexico (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1995), by Judith A. Teichman (page images at Pitt)

• Capitalism 3.0: A Guide to Reclaiming the Commons (c2006), by Peter Barnes (PDF with commentary at capitalism3.com)
• Privatization of Water Services in the United States: An Assessment of Issues and Experience (2002), by National Research Council Water Science and Technology Board (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Assessing the Potential for Civil-Military Integration: Technologies, Processes, and Practices (1994), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Public Assets, Private Profits: Reclaiming the American Commons in an Age of Market Enclosure, by David Bollier (PDF at learcenter.org)

• The Ideal Deal: How Local Governments Can Get More for Their Economic Development Dollar (Washington: Good Jobs First; Chicago: University of Chicago Center for Urban Economic Development, c2007), by Rachel Nicole Weber and David Santacroce (PDF with commentary at Michigan)
• The Philadelphia Plan: Congressional Oversight of Administrative Agencies (the Department of Labor); Hearings, Ninety-First Congress, First Session, on the Philadelphia Plan and S. 931 (Washington: GPO, 1970), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (current electronic edition), by United States General Services Administration (searchable HTML at cfda.gov)

• Fully Allocated Cost Analysis Guidelines for Public Transit Providers (Washington: U.S. Dept. of Transportation, Urban Mass Transportation Administration, 1987), by Price Waterhouse Office of Government Services (page images at HathiTrust)

• Alphabetical Listing of Major War Supply Contracts, Cumulative Through February 1943 (4 declassified volumes in 2; 1943), by United States War Production Board (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Law of Government Defense Contracts (New York, Baker, Voorhis and Co., 1941), by Theodore Wesley Graske (page images at HathiTrust)
• Assessing the Potential for Civil-Military Integration: Technologies, Processes, and Practices (1994), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Acquisition for the 21st Century: The F-22 Development Program, by Michael D. Williams (page images at Google)

• A History of the Department of Defense Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (1995), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images ah HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• The Ideal Deal: How Local Governments Can Get More for Their Economic Development Dollar (Washington: Good Jobs First; Chicago: University of Chicago Center for Urban Economic Development, c2007), by Rachel Nicole Weber and David Santacroce (PDF with commentary at Michigan)

• International Science and Technology: Emerging Trends in Government Policies and Expenditures (ca. 1996) (page images at HathiTrust)

• A History of the Department of Defense Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (1995), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images ah HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Innovation and Commercialization of Emerging Technologies (Washington: GPO, 1995), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Identical Bidding in Public Procurement (partial serial archives)