Managing Dynamic Procurements

Managing Information Security in Large Defence Procurements: the Royal Air Force Lits Experience

This paper describes the practical experiences of the authors subsequent to the 1993 Symposium and overlays the procurement process that took place for the development of the first tranche of the Royal Air Force’s Logistics Information Technology System from a COMPUSEC perspective. It explains some of the problems encountered by the Security Team during the selection of a Prime Systems Integrat...

Managing Switching Costs in Multiperiod Procurements with Strategic Buyers*

This paper examines the use of switching costs by long-lived strategic buyers to manage dynamic competition between rival suppliers. The analysis reveals how buyers may employ switching costs to their advantage. We show when switching costs are high a buyer may induce suppliers to price more competitively by credibly threatening to replace the incumbent supplier with his rivals. The implication...

Managing Stakeholder Requirements in High Performance Computing Procurement

High Performance Computing (HPC) facilities are provided in the UK at a national level. These facilities are amongst the best in the world, supporting world class research across a spectrum of disciplines. EPSRC has led the procurement of the two current facilities: CSAR (Computing Services for Academic Research) which was implemented in 1998, and HPCx which was implemented in 2001. In this pap...

A multi-period inventory model with multi-dimensional procurement bidding

In this work, we consider a multi-period inventory model with raw material procurements done via a reverse auction. Bids are multi-dimensional and they consist of supplier information of price, shortage quantity and lead time. This work is an extension of our earlier work that has integrated single-period inventory models with multidimensional procurement auctions to multi-period settings. The ...

C-PSAD-81-4 Future Procurements of Army's Copperhead Projectile Should Be Contingent on Improvements in Performance and Reliability