{"product_id":"2940153822730","title":"Upping the Emergency Management Ante: The Role of Private Sector Collaboration in Emergency Management and Whether State Procurement and Emergency Management Laws are Built to Collaborate","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. The benefits of public-private collaborations for enhanced emergency management purposes are widely acknowledged, but the questions of when and how such collaborations would be most beneficial have been the subject of much debate. Arguably, it is at the preparedness stage that the private sector's resources, innovative technologies and business continuity expertise can best be used to create more robust risk reduction and preparedness plans. Collaborations at this stage also provide for the identification and proper competitive procurement of all reasonably foreseeable emergency-related goods and services, rather than overuse of the emergency \"no-bid\" exception to competitive procurement, which can result in contractor fraud and government abuse. But, do the appropriate legal mechanisms exist to support increased collaborations? Given that the discussion surrounding such collaborations is still current, the assumption was that legal reform would be necessary. Using the Best Practice Research methodology, a review of the states' procurement and emergency management laws actually reveals that they generally contain the necessary language to support increased public-private collaborations. But, some are more explicitly supportive of such collaborations than others. Accordingly, this thesis offers a statutory policy framework for agencies to consider to make greater use of private resources for better emergency management practices.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER I - PROBLEM STATEMENT * A. RESEARCH QUESTION * B. LITERATURE REVIEW * 1. Public-Private Collaborations * 2. Public-Private Collaborations at the Emergency Preparedness Stage * 3. Advantages of Collaborating with the Private Sector: Business Continuity and Supply Chain Management Expertise * 4. Private Sector Disadvantages of Public-Private Collaborations * 5. Formal Contracts between Public and Private Partners * 6. The Private Sector as a True Emergency Management Partner * C. RESEARCH DESIGN * 1. Objectives * 2. Selection * 3. Limits * 4. Data Sources * 5. Type and Mode of Analysis * 6. Output * CHAPTER II - INTRODUCTION * CHAPTER III - EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT IN THE UNITED STATES: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE * CHAPTER IV - INCREASED \"PRE-DISASTER\" PUBLIC-PRIVATE COLLABORATIONS FOR BETTER EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT * A. THE PRIVATE SECTOR AS A SOLUTION TO THE GOVERNMENTAL RESOURCE GAP * B. THE INTEGRATION OF PRIVATE SECTOR BUSINESS CONTINUITY EXPERTISE INTO GOVERNMENTAL EMERGENCY PLANNING * 1. The Benefits of Competitive Procurement for the Private Sector * 2. The Emergency Management Legal Framework Governing the Integration of Private Sector Resources * 3. Privatization: Its Advantages and Pitfalls * C. THE EMERGENCY \"NO BID\" EXCEPTION TO COMPETITIVE PROCUREMENT AND THE DANGER IT POSES * D. FORMAL CONTRACTING AS AN ARGUABLE CURE TO PRIVATIZATION AND THE \"NO-BID\" EMERGENCY EXCEPTION CONCERNS * 1. Formal Contracts as Mechanisms for Accountability * 2. Formal Contracts as \"Litigation Mitigation\" * 3. The Argument for the Most Effective Confirmation of Contractor Performance * CHAPTER V - THE PRIVATE SECTOR AS MORE THAN A COLLABORATOR; RATHER, AS A TRUE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PARTNER * A. THE CROSS-DISCIPLINE CROSS-SECTOR APPROACH TO EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT * B. THE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT LEGAL * FRAMEWORK AND THE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PARTNER CONCEPT * CHAPTER VI - POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS * A. THE PRIVATE SECTOR AS A TRUE PARTNER IN EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT * B. THE EMERGENCY \"NO-BID\" EXCEPTION AS A TRUE PROCUREMENT METHOD OF LAST RESORT * C. AN EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT POLICY THAT EXPLICITLY INTEGRATES THE PRIVATE SECTOR * CHAPTER VII - CONCLUSION * LIST OF REFERENCES\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Progressive Management","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47103404703984,"sku":"2940153822730","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940153822730_p0.jpg?v=1764057035","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940153822730","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}