This paper studies the interaction between financially constrained and financially strong firms on a procurement market …. It characterizes and discusses a procurement agency’s optimal response when faced with financially asymmetric firms. By …

prices associated with separate purchase. (Pure) bundling is more likely to be selected as a procurement strategy when: (i …

extent of vertical integration are gigantic. This paper undertakes a critical examination of its procurement process to … paper examines issues such as organizational structure, procurement organization, source selection methodology, procurement … oversight and regulation and their impact on the economy, efficiency, transparency and accountability aspects of procurement. It …

according to their ideology. Chapter 3 analyzes a procurement problem in which two specialized agents compete for selling a good …. The optimal procurement scheme trades off increasing the buyer’s chances to obtain a suitable product against reducing the …

Bidders in procurement auctions often face avoidable fixed costs. This can make bidding decisions complex and risky …

We study non-binding procurement auctions where both price and non-price characteristics of bidders matter for being … of a change in the information structure using data from a large European online procurement platform for different …