The lack of flexibility in public procurement design and implementation reflects public agents' political risk adaptation to limit hazards from opportunistic third parties -political opponents, competitors, interest groups -while externalizing the associated adaptation costs to the public at large.Reduced flexibility limits the likelihood of opportunistic challenge lowering third parties' expected gains and increasing litigation costs.We provide a comprehensible theoretical framework with empirically testable predictions.
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