Procurement procedure, competition and final unit price: The case of commodities
We show how institutional and procedural characteristics affect the final price in public procurement. In order to obtain comparable unit prices, our analysis examined public procurement of homogeneous goods only. We examined two Czech commodity markets: electricity and natural gas, which enabled us to use a private market price as a benchmark metric. The regression analysis is based on the standard ordinary least squares method. On a dataset of 277 tenders, we found that the final unit price of the procurement is sensitive to movements in both commodity market price and price estimated ex ante by the procurer. Moreover, we identified that the final price is reduced when the procurer uses an open procedure, an electronic auction, or attracts more competitors.
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2016
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Authors: | Soudek, Jan ; Skuhrovec, Jiří |
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Journal of Public Procurement. - Emerald Publishing Limited, ISSN 2150-69301535-0118, ZDB-ID 2168636-1. - Vol. 16.2016, 1, p. 1-21
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Emerald Publishing Limited |
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