New Models of Contracting in the Public Sector: A Review of Alliance Contracting, Prime Contracting and Outcome-based Contracting Literature

Performance-based contracting in the construction sector

Construction procurement is complex and there is a very wide range of options available to procurers. Inappropriate choices about how to procure may limit practical opportunities for innovation. In particular, traditional approaches to construction procurement set up many obstacles for technology suppliers to provide innovative solutions. This is because they are often employed as sub-contracto...

Competitive tendering and contracting in the Australian public sector

Public Contracting in Delegated Agency

We study games of public delegated common agency under asymmetric information. Using tools from non-smooth analysis and optimal control, we derive best responses and characterize equilibria (both continuous and discontinuous) using self-generating optimization programs of which any equilibrium allocation must be a solution. Special attention is given to common agency games in which each princip...

The Logic of E-contracting The Logic of E-contracting

We consider the potential roles of formal logic in decision support systems for electronic contracting and so address the problem of representation of business process knowledge in a usable form when there are particular concerns of complexity, communicability and clarity.

Respiration and heat in contracting and non-contracting dissipative muscle.

The oxygen consumption-heat relationship is analyzed using a scheme of reactions underlying muscle aerobic metabolism. The enzymatic chemical reactions of the scheme are considered near equilibrium during a contraction, and far from equilibrium during energy dissipation in a non-contracting state. Implications show that for two different metabolic rates, the proportionality between oxygen consu...