Research, training, audit and governance for public and compulsory asset sales.
Public Asset Integrity Group develops methods and technical instruments that strengthen accountability, traceability and integrity across the lifecycle of public asset disposition.
Protecting the integrity of the process.
Establishing who is answerable for acts, decisions and the exercise of judgment.
Strengthening confidence through transparent, traceable and accountable processes.
Rules of the sale, deadlines and award criteria define what may be done. Mature regulation, well developed.
Identity verification, bid logs and auditable trails record what was done. Growing capability, improving steadily.
Neither, by itself, necessarily establishes who is individually accountable for the judgment exercised in between.
When the conducting function is distributed across entities, that attribution can become unclear. Our work is in that third layer.
Each component addresses one question an agency must answer before, during and after a public sale.
Thirty-seven indicators organised by lifecycle stage, so that the person conducting the sale consults only what applies at the stage in hand.
Each risk point matched to the control that addresses it, with the supporting authority or framework stated and independently verifiable.
Seven quantitative measures computed against the agency's own historical series rather than an external benchmark.
Delivered to the people who conduct and oversee sales, organised by the stage at which each risk is encountered.
Thirty internal controls across seven stages, with a segregation-of-duties matrix and a compensating regime for smaller agencies.
A phased sequence with declared limits, calibration against real data, and periodic review of the thresholds adopted.
Architecture of the method: six components, three methodological principles, and the anchoring of each to a federal instrument within its defined scope.
Thirty-seven indicators by lifecycle stage, seven of them quantitative, with calibration criteria, an escalation protocol and six reference cases from federal prosecutions.
Thirty controls across seven stages, with a segregation-of-duties matrix and a compensating regime for agencies too small to segregate fully.
Technical project and engineering specification for a system that records observations as they occur and ties each one to a determinate person.
Five working papers are deposited with the Social Science Research Network. One is a revised English version of a previously published journal article. The research record also includes two articles published in Revista Jurídica UNICURITIBA, a double-blind peer-reviewed indexed journal, and one article in Consultor Jurídico.
Each instrument is applied within its own defined scope. References to United States federal standards and agencies are made for methodological and research purposes. No affiliation, sponsorship or endorsement is implied.
Lifecycle-based integrity instruction for the people who conduct and oversee public sales.
Retrospective review of an agency's disposition record against seven calibrated metrics.
Adoption of the internal control protocol as an agency rule, with segregation of duties and attribution architecture.
Public Asset Integrity Group engages with practitioners, regulators and institutional stakeholders to examine the application of its integrity, attribution and internal-control framework across different public asset disposition environments.
Eighteen years conducting judicial and extrajudicial auctions in Brazil under a regime in which the person conducting the sale answers personally for the acts performed and certifies what occurred.
In 2020, as a named petitioner together with the national association he presides over, he brought a proceeding before Brazil's National Council of Justice on who may conduct judicial sales when they take place online. The decision was unanimous, and the Federal Supreme Court later declined to disturb it.
The control points in this method were initially derived from that operational experience, and were subsequently examined against the relevant literature and mapped to United States federal instruments.
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