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Opening innovation procurement
Public procurement plays a vital role in stimulating sustainable and inclusive European growth through innovation. Moving beyond primary goals of service improvement and cost reduction, innovation procurement practices of public agencies can pursue secondary goals such as innovation and …
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Piecewise truckload network procurement
Faced with procuring transportation over its freight network, a shipper can either bid out all of its lanes at once, or somehow divide up the network and bid it out in pieces. For large shippers, practical concerns such as attendant manpower requirements and exposure to financial/operational risks …
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Social value and procurement phases: a study of municipal procurement in London boroughs
… sparked increased interest in leveraging public procurement policies to achieve these objectives. In the UK, the enactment of the Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012, alongside the Public Contracts Regulations (2015), mandates public bodies to consider social value (SV) in procurement …
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The Role of Procurement Processes on the effectiveness of Public Procurement System in Tanzania
… efforts in addressing weaknesses in the public procurement process. However there still complaints that public procurement processes are characterized by delays, poor quality and non cost effective delivery. This study sought to analyze procurement processes in achieving effectiveness of the …
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Three Essays on Procurement Auctions
This thesis is an empirical study of procurement auctions. First, I explore how varying the timing of a sequence of auctions affects both bidder behaviour and the welfare of procurers and bidders. We develop a structural auction model with endogenous participation in which bidding may be …
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Innovating the standard procurement process
… Framework is used to analyze the standard procurement process for innovation. Constrained resources and rapid advancements in Information Technology have caused DoD to seek high levels of improvement in key processes, such as procurement, because of the high costs and long cycle times …
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Three Essays on Public Procurement
… essays on the theory and empirics of public procurement—the process by which government defines its needs for goods and services and acquires them using contracts. The objective of this dissertation is to address three unresolved questions in the literature regarding how the characteristics …
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Computer Evaluation, Selection and Procurement
One of the most significant developments on the American scene today is the electronic computer. The full impact of the computer on business and society will not be known until far into the future. A striking example of the increasing influence of the computer in business today is provided in a …
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Truckload Shipment Planning and Procurement
… optimization model. The third topic is about procurement in an adverse market. We study a modification of the existing procurement process to consider the market stochastic into marking decisions. In all three studies, our target is to develop effectively methodologies to seek optimal answers …
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Procurement Contracts and Second Sourcing
Second, we analyze a procurement model where a procurer obtains an indivisible service from a contractor. The quality of this service is variable. Quality is determined by effort, investment and the realization of a random variable. Neither quality nor investment is verifiable. This means the …
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Transportation service procurement using combinatorial auctions
… important in the transportation service procurement domain, due to its mechanism to align shipper s procurement interest with carrier transportation service cost structure, which in turn lowers shippers total procurement cost. The thesis provides a comprehensive review of the use of …
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High performance in Procurement Risk Management
Research on Procurement Risk Management has been conducted by Accenture and MIT in order to identify the best practices used to manage commodity price volatility and supplier risk. In today's increasingly turbulent market it is crucial for companies to have their procurement risk management …
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Reducing government proposal procurement process complexity
… supply chain, in a process known as multi-year procurement process. At UADVM, this process involved substantial time, effort, and rework. Through interviews and surveys, total administrative effort to manage the Multi-Year X (MYX) Procurement Process is estimated to be about 41 full-time …
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Improving the achievement of value for money in construction procurement under the Nigerian Public Procurement Act (2007)
… enacted an Act of Parliament known as the Public Procurement Act (PPA 2007) to govern the public-sector procurements. The PPA (2007) amongst other objectives, aims to achieve value for money on government procurements. However, opinions from the existing body of knowledge suggest that the …
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The Efficiency of Procurement Systems in Government Executive Agencies: a Case Study of Government Procurement Services Agency
Procurement function is one of the popular talks of many public and private organizations including the governments in many countries as about eighty percent (80%) of the budget is allocated for procurement of goods and services. Thus, the research problem for this study was to investigate whether …
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The efficiency of procurement systems in goverment executive agencies: A case study of government procurement services agency
Procurement function is one of the popular talks of many public and private organizations including the governments in many countries as about eighty percent (80%) of the budget is allocated for procurement of goods and services. Thus, the research problem for this study was to investigate whether …
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Systemic Interpretation in EU Public Procurement Law
… the European Court of Justice and the EU public procurement legislation. Using the terminology of MacCormick and Siltala, the approach utilized in the study is based on the Three C’s in Legal Reasoning: from linguistic consistency to the pursuit of principled, analogy-aligned coherence among …
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Decision Making in Packer Procurement of Hogs
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