also commonly held that the adoption of e-procurement solutions can be effective in pursuing such an objective. To this end …, we analyze the transactions completed in the period 2004-2007 through the Italian Government's e-procurement platform …, that is, the marketplace managed by the Italian Public Procurement Agency (Consip S.p.A.). Although descriptive statistics …

and rule-based auction procurement procedures. We show that adopting a two stage approach in which bureaucrats first …