Competitive tendering for offender care

Competitive tendering and contracting in the Australian public sector

Competitive tendering versus performance-based negotiation in Swiss public transport

The purpose of this study is to assess di¤erences in the levels of cost e¢ ciency of bus lines operated under competitively tendered contracts and performance-based negotiated contracts. Following the revision of the Swiss railways act in 1996, regional public authorities were given the choice between two di¤erent contractual regimes to procure public passenger transport services. We directly c...

Infrastructure for Electronic Tendering Interoperability

To conduct business on the Internet, many problems should be solved. Examples of these problems are: security, authentication, heterogeneity, interoperability, and ontology problems. The diicult problem here is how to combine disparate information sources to integrate them in an open environment like Internet. Many approaches were invented to solve this problem. We discuss the problem in the do...

Transacting under a Performance-Based Contract: The Role of Negotiation and Competitive Tendering

There is a growing body of theoretical and empirical evidence to support the promotion of awarding mechanisms with formal and informal devices, aimed at economic efficiency and effectiveness through the life of the contract i.e., ex ante and ex post coordination. Building on growing arguments to support negotiations instead of auctions, Bajari et al. (2002) suggest that auctions perform poorly ...

Transforming Legal Aid: Does Price Competitive Tendering Potentially Create Travesties of justice?

Introduction Legal aid in criminal proceedings exists to avoid defendants being presented as victims of an overbearing state, which assumes that “the two sides have access to roughly equivalent resources and expertise” (Young et al, 1996; 5). Recent governments have however focussed on value for money, which ignores political debate about what actually constitutes value in specific circumstance...