Public Procurement Administration for Rebuilding and Consolidating Public Infrastructures After the Great East Japan Earthquake

2019 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 16K17056
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Politics
• Research Institution: Hosei University
• Principal Investigator: SAKANE Toru 法政大学, 法学部, 教授 (30567491)
• Project Period (FY): 2016-04-01 – 2020-03-31
• Keywords: 東日本大震災 / 公共インフラ / 再建・整備 / 調達行政

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this research, public procurement administration regarding rebuilding and consolidating public infrastructures after the Great East Japan Earthquake was analyzed in order to clarify its administrative measures and devices. As a result, it is found out that local governments in the disaster-stricken areas and regional branch organizations of the central government took measures for organizational and human resource responses, and for devising procurement implementation agents and procurement methods. By doing so, huge scale of projects and public infrastructure-related procurement were realized in different conditions from normal times. Research results about them were presented both internationally and domestically.

Free Research Field

行政学、調達行政論、国際行政論

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

東日本大震災後の公共インフラの再建・整備には、巨額の国費が費やされ、また、その迅速な実現は、被災地の住民や地域の復興にとっても極めて重要であった。他方で、被災地の行政も被災した中で、厖大な事業を実施することは容易ではなかった。そこで、被災地の基礎自治体では、全国からの応援職員の派遣受入や任期付職員の採用、県やUR都市機構などによる事業実施、状況に応じた柔軟な様々な調達手法の活用などにより対応していた。このような得られた知見は、調達行政や東日本大震災などの研究面で意義があり、また、他の大災害にも応用可能で社会的な意義もある。