Best Value for Money in Procurement
Recent years witnessed a gradual change on how to evaluate successful procurement, in both the private ad the public sector. Indeed from a price-only criterion for measuring success, decisions shifted to a multi-criteria approach where various dimensions of quality, as well as price, are considered. The most common way to express such shift is to say that procurement should deliver “best value for money” (BVM). That is, to award the contract, both monetary and non-monetary components of an offer are to be considered. Whether in competitive bidding or negotiations BVM is typically formalized by a scoring formula, namely a rule for assigning dimensionless numbers to different elements of an offer, often expressed in different units of measurement. The contract would then be awarded according to the total score obtained by an offer. This paper discusses the notion of BVM and some typical forms of scoring rules, as a way to formalize the procurer’s preferences.
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2012-02
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Authors: | Dimitri, Nicola |
Institutions: | Maastricht School of Management (MSM) |
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