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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"procurements"”.
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Overhead management guide for aerospace procurements
This thesis focuses on the management emphasis concerning overhead cost control. Senior personnel within the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) review a multitude of cost information. Due to the nature and complexity of these costs, it is extremely difficult to analyze and interpret cost data and, …
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New Public Management Principles aimed to Enhance the Efficiency and Transparency in Public Procurements /
This Master’s thesis deals with the analysis of the conception and implementation of the new public management principles within the public procurement procedures in Lithuania and Sweden. Moreover, this thesis has the intention to explore and analyze in general the scenarios of public procurement, …
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Challenges and benefits to the implementation of integrated product teams on large military procurements
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1995.
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The Price Impacts on the Canned Peach Industry by the Federal Commodity Procurement Program
… how the industry interacts with commodity procurements and to evaluate if the industry feels that commodity procurements have a significant effect on procured fruits' and vegetables' prices to help better judge the overall effectiveness of the commodity procurement program. A theoretical …
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Improving the achievement of value for money in construction procurement under the Nigerian Public Procurement Act (2007)
… 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 implementation of PPA (2007) on public construction …
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Three Essays on Public Procurement
… using a sample of information technology procurements drawn from U.S. procurement federal data, finding that the effects mostly offset one another. The effects likely operate with greater force (in one direction or another) in larger, program-based procurements (e.g., of major weapons or …
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Aligning Public-Private Partnership Contracts with Public Objectives for Transportation Infrastructure
… illustrated through application to current PPP procurements: (1) a traffic-risk worksheet, which provides a rapid estimate of a toll-financed project's viability; (2) analytical QCA results, which offer guidance for structuring PPP contracts based on the desired pricing objectives; and (3) …
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Value for Money Evaluation of Three Operational NHS Private Finance Initiative Contracts
… to examine the conditions of possibility for PFI procurements by three English National Health Service (NHS) Trusts and the extent to which these projects are affordable and delivering Value for Money (VfM). Drawing from Bourdieu’s Theory of Practice and his social praxeology, the thesis …
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Scalp as a donor site in children: Is it really the best option?
… and 36.4% long-term). Ten children had two procurements resulting in an 80% complication rate (40% short-term and 40% long-term complications). In four children with three scalp procurements an acute 25% complication rate, with no subsequent long-term complications, was encountered. …
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General Services Administration lease procurement : opportunities and challenges
… procurement process; 2) opportunities for new procurements in 2009's market; 3) developer financed new lease construction build-to-suit projects; and 4) opportunities and challenges of financing projects in 2009's credit crunch.
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The Role of Procurement Processes on the effectiveness of Public Procurement System in Tanzania
… market survey for cost estimates of major procurements and enhance cooperation between User Departmemnts and PMU staff.
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Managing privately produced rail transit systems : a case study of Tren Urbano
… It can offer important lessons for similar procurements being contemplated around the world. This thesis looks at the responsibilities of a public agency during the operations and maintenance phase of such procurement. As no two situations can be exactly alike, and a universal model is not …
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Challenges Affecting Procurement Processes in Public Organisations in Tanzania: The Case Study of Parastatal Pensions Fund-Head Quarters- Dar es Salaam
… Strategies for minimizing factors affecting procurements should include improving ethical issues, ICT competences and enhancing facilities and skills for the modern record keeping.
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A strategic framework for the further enhancement of the standard forms of construction contract in the Sultanate of Oman
… to improve theDispute Resolution Practice, Procurements' Applications and sets up a solidfoundation for the further improvement of the construction laws discipline in theSultanate of Oman.
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Managing the development of the real estate portfolios of state transportation authorities in the Boston area
… negotiating development arrangements and project procurements, and an innovative program intended to make authority-owned development parcels accessible to a broader real estate investment and development market by breaking down the existing barriers to entry in to authority-sponsored development …
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Benefits and applications of commonality and platforming in the oil and gas industry
… dominated by construction and third party procurements, also reduced the potential for commonality benefits. An alternative platform approach to commonality is suggested for future development of the Steambird project. The proposed platform includes 3 well pad variant designs with 6, 9, and …
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Influence of Project-Level Characteristics and Factors on Innovation and Value Creation in US Highway Public-Private Partnership Projects
… concepts (ATCs) in four infrastructure project procurements. The developed framework provides the infrastructure and construction community with a replicable approach to assess technical enhancements in projects to determine whether they are innovative or not and if so the type of innovation. …
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Influence of Project-Level Characteristics and Factors on Innovation and Value Creation in US Highway Public-Private Partnership Projects
… concepts (ATCs) in four infrastructure project procurements. The developed framework provides the infrastructure and construction community with a replicable approach to assess technical enhancements in projects to determine whether they are innovative or not and if so the type of innovation. …
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Incentive competitions as a policy tool for technological innovation
… and conventional tools such as patents and procurements tend not to be sufficient. Using inducement mechanisms (motivators) such as a large financial reward, demanding deliverables, and technical support, incentive competitions seek to motivate innovators to exert effort and develop creative …
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Beyond guns or butter : towards a multi-level analysis of South Africa's strategic defence procurement
… its decision by maintaining that the military procurements are vital to both the national security imperatives and economic growth of South Africa. In this vein, defense industrialists argue that weapons procurement deals containing counter-trade provisions help to stimulate the local …
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