BACKGROUND The fate of tropical forests is a global concern, yet many far-reaching decisions affecting forest resources are made locally. We explore allocation of logging rights using a case study from Loreto, Peruvian Amazonia, where millions of hectares of tropical rainforest were offered for concession in a competitive tendering process that addressed issues related to locality. METHODOLOG...

Introduction Significant changes in the auditing environment world-wide have, in recent years, led to important changes in the behaviour of market participants. The main environmental changes have been the world-wide recession, dating from approximately 1989, which led to overcapacity on the supply side of the market. These changing competitive pressures resulted in aggressive fee renegotiation...

Globally, most of the economies are embracing use integrated systems in handling transactions for effectiveness and efficiency to be witnessed from all departments concerned. In Kenya IFMIS as an system applied government offices. The study mainly focused on determining role e-tendering practices supply chain performance. is electronic managing performance Government departments; it has increas...

The recent government tendering process being conducted in an electronic way is becoming an inevitable affair for numerous governmental agencies to further exploit the superiorities of conventional tendering. Thus, developing an effective web-based bid evaluation methodology so as to realize an efficient and effective government E-tendering (GeT) system is imperative. This paper firstly investi...

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...

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 ...

The value of innovation in the construction industry has grown substantially. Thus, embracing innovative approaches such as E-tendering system can overcome many challenges tendering process and promote cost savings, reduce waste, improve efficiency. refers to an advanced technology that combines idea entering conducting electronically. Currently, electronic business shifted current Malaysian sc...