Journal of Public Procurement: Volume 15 Issue 3

Price-quality ratios in value-for-money awards

Philipp Kiiver, Jakub Kodym

This article presents a simple and objective formula to determine a tender's price-quality ratio, for the purpose of value-for-money awards, which is literally quality divided by…

Do federal davis-bacon and disadvantaged business enterprise regulations affect aggressive bidding? evidence from highway resurfacing procurement auctions

Kevin C. Duncan

Previous empirical studies examine the effect of asymmetries across bidders on auction outcomes. This paper tests for asymmetries in behavior when bidders are confronted with…

E-procurement as the ict innovation in the public services management: Case of slovakia

Maria Murray Svidronova, Tomas Mikus

Information and communications technology (ICT) has enabled the creation of tools to organize, transmit, store and act on information in digital form in new ways (Atkinson …

Stability properties in department of defense contracts: Answering the controversy

Jacob L. Petter, Jonathan D. Ritschel, Edward D. White

Delineating where stability occurs in a contract provides the window of opportunity for procurement officials to positively affect cost and schedule outcomes. While the concept of…

Measuring efficiency in international public procurement

Anjali Kumar, Arvind Nair, Juliane Piecha

Procurement efficiency as an element of public performance management can contribute to achieving Value for Money by reducing administrative overhead costs and directing resources…