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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"competitive bidding"”.
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The Promises and Pitfalls of the Competitive Bidding Process
The specter of increased taxes casts a dark shadow upon the American landscape. At the same time public satisfaction with schools, public housing, crime, and infrastructure is on the down turn. The negative perception of public agencies as bureaucratic, inefficient, and wasteful is all the more …
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Impact of risk sharing on competitive bidding in truckload transportation
The purpose of this research was to evaluate whether a shipper's fuel surcharge (FSC) program affected its per-load transportation costs in the United States full-truckload (TL) transportation industry. In this study, we restricted transportation costs to line-haul charges and fuel surcharge …
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A study of competitive bidding with particular reference to the construction industry
… and quantitative methods to the problems of competitive bidding. The study was provided with data and information by four English building construction companies. First a preliminary feasibility study was conducted which indicated that the potential for substantial benefits exists. Then the …
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A Methodology for Estimating the Level of Aggressiveness in Competitive Bidding Markets
Competitive bidding, where the project is awarded to the lowest bidder, is a basic part of the construction industry. This method of project delivery is designed to promote healthy competition in an attempt ensure the lowest price for the project. A contractor knows that lowering a bid price …
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Auctions with Variable Supply and Competing Auctioneers
… dissertation studies game theoretical models of competitive bidding on multi-unit auction markets. The analysis concerns both monopoly and oligopoly settings. A major part of the thesis deals with equilibrium bidding in variable supply auctions – trade mechanisms in which a monopoly seller …
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Review of the competitive bid for PV in South Africa: is SA maximising job creation and value for money from its photovoltaic industy?
… from the more popular feed-in tariff (FiT) to a competitive bidding system in late 2010, causing delays and decreased confidence in the South African market. Within the new, competitive bidding programme there were complicated surety, economic development, financing and structuring requirements. …
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Multi-round auctions for institutional real estate assets : theory and practice
… bid submissions, with attrition in the number of competitive bidders. After competitive bidding is complete a preferred bidder is selected, and engages in due diligence, a practice that often uncovers new information and induces renegotiation. Bids are not binding during the bidding process, …
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Designing new performance-based incentive regimes for operating contracts in the Province of Gipuzkoa, Spain
… in Europe and around the world have introduced competitive bidding in concessions for providing bus service, often resulting in reduced costs for service. The main caveat to this approach is that without proper oversight by the authority, operators may reduce quality to cut costs and maximize …
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Essays on the Impact of Antitrust Regulation on Corporate Mergers and Divestitures
… regulatory agency over the potential anticompetitive impact of the merger. In the first essay, I investigate the probability of completing an acquisition deal conditional on the government approval by applying a nested logit model. My results support the findings of Eckbo (1985), Coate, …
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The impact of the South African Renewable Energy Independent Power Producers Procurement Programme on South African communities: A case study
… Programme (REIPPPP). The REIPPPP is a competitive bidding scheme and once independent power producers (IPPs) are appointed as preferred bidders a nonnegotiable, standardised and rand (ZAR)-dominated 20-year power purchase agreement is signed with the national energy producer, Eskom. In …
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Critical success factors for financing renewable IPPs in South Africa
… At the programme level, factors such as competitive bidding models, project scale, and regulatory efficiency are essential in ensuring the long-term sustainability of REIPPs. The Sensitivity: MTN Internal study emphasises the importance of well-structured tariff models, transparent …
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Optimization-based auctions and stochastic assembly replenishment policies for industrial procurement
… modifying their offers, giving rise to a dynamic competitive bidding process. A first contribution of our work is the solution we develop to assist suppliers, a bidding suggestion device based on a myopic best response (MBR) calculation solving an inverse optimization problem. The second main …