A checklist for those responsible for public procurement

We propose a new procurement procedure which allocates shares of the total amount to be procured depending on the bids of suppliers. Among the properties of the mechanism are: (i) Bidders have an incentive to participate in the procurement procedure, as equilibrium payoffs are strictly positive. (ii) The mechanism allows to vary the extent to which affirmative action objectives, like promoting ...

Looking at recent developments in private e-procurement, automating processes is increasingly based on standard product classification schemes such as eCl@ss and UNSPSC. However, this trend is yet not reflected in public e-procurement to the same degree. This paper provides arguments for the existing gap concerning product classification and semantic interoperability. It compares the contributi...

The project cycle ................................................................................................ 1 Project delivery ................................................................................................... 2 Design-Bid-Build................................................................................................. 3 Quality-based selection in design-build.........