Published or perished: Harnessing consolidated procurement of national reference books

This paper reports on the implementation, challenges, and benefits at every stage of the consolidated procurement of the national reference books in Indonesia. This study employed a qualitative approach and method by interviewing informants selected through purposive sampling. The informants in this research came from the Ministry of Education and Culture, the National Public Procurement Agency (LKPP), and book publishers as procurement vendors. Data analysis was conducted through open, selective, and axial coding whereby data from different informants were triangulated.