Federal procurement has an important role to play in mitigating and adapting to climate change. The massive scale of the government’s purchasing power—more than $600 billion in Fiscal Year 2022—puts the federal government in an impactful position to both purchase and create markets for...

We study a convertible procurement contract that combines two prevalent fixed-price and cost-plus contracts. After the project begins, the contractor may invest in more accurate cost information that can be further used as evidence to convert his initial fixed-price contract into a cost-plus...

Considering procurement process performance assessment, measurement systems such as balance score card and capability maturity models used to assess procurement performance to give a reasonable indication of actual performance. These tools are ideal for practical applications that depend on...

This paper provides empirical evidence of the effect of sustainable award criteria (SAC) on the number of bids public procurement contracts get, using Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) data for Spain. We find that specifications that do not account for endogeneity result in a positive association...

A “smart city” uses technology to manage resources more efficiently and equitably, and/or pursues long-term planning to that end. Smart city projects have been led by numerous actors, including the private sector and community groups, but a large portion of smart city work takes place within...

In the literature on Philippine public procurement, knowledge gaps exist in terms of coverage of period of reform implementation and scope of reform application. This study helps close these gaps by analyzing Philippine public procurement history up to the years of application of the 2016...