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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Government Contracts"”.
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Predicting adequacy of supplier responses for multi-year government contracts based on supplier performance metrics
… and its primary customer is the United States Government (USG). In order to reduce cost and minimize risk, both parties have embraced a multi-year contracting model in which productions agreements are signed for up to five-year periods. This allows for significant cost savings over single-year …
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What Makes Your Business A Winner: Empirical Analysis Using the Department of Defense Contracts with Small Manufacturing Firms
… breakthrough, and national security. The Federal Government has always sought to support its large base of small businesses through its various socio-economic policies and targeted initiatives to increase opportunities of small businesses. However the latter still face numerous challenges when it …
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Modelling targeted procurement strategies and relationship quality criteria influencing the development of small contractors in South Africa
… Procurement strategies are widely used in government contracts to achieve contractor performance and development objectives in the South African construction industry. However, there have been reports of poor performance and high attrition rate of contractors in contractor development …
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Nonprofit Market Structure and Its Consequences
… increased over time—changes in the structure of government contracts. I examine whether fewer, but larger, contracts change performance. I find that contract consolidation does not significantly improve performance. Furthermore, I find no evidence that economies of scale exist in workplace …
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Hedonic price indices for military vehicles and trailers
… This Act dramatically increased competition for Government contracts. It was not possible to estimate price indices for combat vehicles due to the paucity of data. However, should additional price and attribute data become available it is believed that price indices can be developed using the …
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Predictors of successful outcomes of U.S. Coast Guard construction contracts
The U. S. federal government contracts over five hundred billion dollars in goods and services each year. Traditionally, these contracts are awarded on the basis of a combination of a contractor's proposed cost, quality, technical capability and demonstrated past performance. While all valid and …
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Managing values : the reproduction of organisational values in social economy organisations
… are seen as distinctive in being independent of government and commercial enterprise, and because they are value-based. This study examined a crucial issue for social economy organisations: how they reproduce their distinctive values. The research examined six social economy organisations in the …
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Bringing forward shipping for government service: the indispensable role of the transport service, 1793 to 1815
… of the Secretary of State for War. The government depended upon the availability of merchant ships for this purpose. Yet less than 10 per cent of the registered merchant ships were suitable to be used as troop ships. At peaks of demand, in 1805, 1808 and 1814, the Transport Board …
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Process improvement and analytics of commercial material substantiation
… Act (TINA), when submitting a proposal to the government all suppliers with a total award greater than $700,000 need to have supporting documentation (material substantiation) showing that pricing is fair and reasonable. This can be accomplished through competition, a cost-price analysis (CPA), …
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An evaluation of short innovation contest implementation in the federal context
… for technology procurement in the context of government. Through a contest, participants approach a well-defined challenge independently, conducting different experiments to find a solution. The combination of these various "trials" leads to an increased probability for a government agency to …
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Performance barriers to 8(a) small businesses: learning & policy implications
The initiative entitled the Federal Government 8(a) Program was developed to serve as a training intervention to assist minority-owned businesses in gaining access to Federal contracting dollars. Minority-owned firms complete a certification process rendering them eligible to compete for up to nine …
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A study of corruption in transition countries
… has explored whether bribes paid by firms to government officials are greater under a decentralized bureaucracy where the firm faces numerous government officials or under a monopolistic one. Presumably, bribes are bid down in the former as officials compete for bribes. However, a tragedy of …
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The politics of wealth distribution in post-Soeharto Indonesia: political power, corruption and institutional change
… are explored in three sites: the allocation of government contracts, the interaction between business associations and the state, and the negotiations over the repayment of debt. It is found that corruption has become more widely dispersed with the inclusion of new state actors and that the …
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Essays on asymmetric information in government contracting
… the firm influence the contracting outcome. The government contracts with a single, risk-averse supplier for the production of output. Both the government and the firm face uncertainty with respect to the marginal production cost of the item. Prior to full-scale production, the firm performs …
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The role of public policies in supporting hybrid entrepreneurship: The case of Vhembe district, Limpopo province
… to experience numerous challenges, and the government needs to play a significant role in assisting them to overcome those challenges. The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of public policies and propose strategies to ensure their effectiveness in supporting hybrid …
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Three essays on empirical corporate finance
… Corrupt practices in the assignment of government contracts are largely diffused and can generate misallocation of resources across firms. I study how disclosure of such practices affects firm growth and labor reallocation. I exploit exogenous variation in the exposure of illegally …
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Collaborative Arrangements and the State of Trust between SMEs and Large Companies in Mandated Business Interactions
… relationships (IORs) that are mandated by government policy. Due to the important contribution made by SMEs to national economies and to the fact that their growth is pivotal for entrepreneurial activities, many governments have made significant efforts to enhance their performance. …
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Systemic Corruption: A Multi-Theoretic, Multi-Level and Mixed Methods Analysis of the Interplay among Institutional Logics, Strategic Agency and Reward Expectancy
… corruption is that it is produced primarily by government officials who abuse discretionary powers over state rules and resources to demand bribes for self-enrichment. The demand-side theory of corruption, which assumes that bribe payers are passive victims of avaricious bureaucrats, has …
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New product introduction at a technology company
… product performance. Over the last 10 years, government contracts have been changing to include stricter manufacturing and cost requirements. With these changes, design engineers can no longer design the most technologically advanced product and then hand it off to manufacturing engineers to …
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Small decisions towards social justice: How leaders of not-for-profit social services can be supported to include social justice in decision-making
… in Aotearoa New Zealand and a dependence on government contracts. NFP organisations and their leaders therefore face the daily possibility of mission and culture drift as they struggle to meet government operating requirements and measures of success. These requirements and measures can …
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