Public procurement of information systems (IS) and IS services provides several challenges to the stakeholders involved in the procurement processes. This paper reports initial results from a Delphi study, which involved 46 experienced procurement managers, chief information officers, and vendor representatives in the Norwegian public sector. The participants identified altogether 98 challenges...

For many organisations e-Procurement has become a necessity. Nevertheless, while e-procurement has generated considerable hype the phenomenon is generally under-researched. This paper explores the effects that business-to-business relationships have on e-Procurement systems using a field study of 6 companies. The study classifies business-to-business (B2B) relationships as being adversarial and...

Economic reforms pay off. This working document presents evidence of the positive impact of Internal Market rules on the performance of public procurement markets over the past ten years. Indicators show positive developments in market transparency, increased cross border competition and price savings derived from the implementation of public procurement directives. Public procurement directive...

This article investigates the critical success factors of e-procurement---the purchase of goods and services for organizations, which usually represents one of the largest expense items in a firm’s cost structure. Data was gathered using the survey method and a random sample drawn from the membership of the Institute for Supply Management and the Council of Logistics Management. Data was analyz...

This paper provides a global overview of both recent developments and current initiatives in public e-procurement. The Hong Kong Government’s E-Procurement Pilot Programme will serve as a case study that will be discussed using a descriptive case study approach. A qualitative methodology is employed with findings that indicate that the development of public e-procurement is a matter of percepti...

This paper discusses public technology procurement from the perspective of the PTT's procurement of the DX 200 digital switching system, equipment for the NMT and KAUHA paging network in the Finnish telecommunications industry. The theoretical and conceptual framework draws on a systems of innovation approach using development bloc and technological systems theory, as well as previous research ...

This paper presents an e-commerce system that is being used for construction material procurement. The paper identifies the limitations relating to information retrieving, recording and sharing in the traditional material procurement process. E-commerce applications that can improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the material procurement process in construction are then identified and desc...

1. Introduction Repetition is the key aspect of online procurement auctions as they are often conducted yearly or quarterly or even daily (Elmaghraby 2006; Pinker and et al. 2003). Yet it remains unknown (1) what the suppliers' incentives are for repeatedly participating in reverse auctions, especially for those non-winning suppliers (e.g. Jap 2002); (2) In business practice, whether suppliers ...

This paper presents the results of a literature survey developed to support a proposed model of the Critical Success Factors (CSFs) likely to impact the success of e-Procurement initiatives in the public sector. It identifies a number of relevant variables for each CSF and presents a model for future research. It also analyses the relative importance of different CSFs and observes that organiza...

The results of dissertation research "Preventing and combating corruption in public procurement" are presented in this publication. The study was conducted 2011 till 2013 in a Member State of the European Union– in the Republic of Latvia. Goal of the thesis is to explore corruption prevention and combating issues in public procurement sphere, to identify the prevalence rates, determinants and c...