Policy-led public procurement: does strategic procurement deliver?

E-Procurement: How Does it Enhance Strategic Performance?

The research, based on an interdisciplinary literature review, highlights the strategic choices, various profiles and salient factors of electronic procurement (eprocurement). The authors identify some factors which are important when adopting a strategic, rather than a tactical e-procurement perspective. The article proposes a broad framework for assessing the e-procurement performance relatio...

Comparing Public Procurement Auctions

This paper contrasts two auction formats often used in public procurement: first price auctions with ex-post screening of bid responsiveness and average bid auctions, in which the bidder closest to the average bid wins. The equilibrium analysis reveals that their ranking is ambiguous in terms of revenues, but the average bid auction is typically less efficient. Using a dataset of Italian public...

Bureaucrats and Public Procurement

This paper deals with a Niskanen type of public-procurement agency. It is shown that the procurement game should be separated into an investment game and a project game, the first game to be played before nature determines the actual realizations of benefit and costs of the project, the second game to be played afterward. In the first game the relationship-specific investments of agency and sel...

Public Procurement for Innovation (PPI) as Mission-oriented Innovation Policy

Broader Public Sector Procurement Directive

Links [1] https://www.uoguelph.ca/finance/bps-procurement-directive-purpose-0 [2] https://www.uoguelph.ca/finance/bps-procurement-directive-principles [3] https://www.uoguelph.ca/finance/bps-procurement-directive-requirements-overview [4] https://www.uoguelph.ca/finance/supply-chain-code-ethicsv [5] https://www.uoguelph.ca/finance/competitive-procurement-thresholds [6] https://www.uoguelph.ca/f...