Cost overrun is ubiquitous in public procurement. We argue that this can be the result of a constraint optimal award … a simple design initially enhances competition in the auction. Moreover, the procurer cannot benefit from using a multi …-dimensional auction, as the optimal scoring rule depends only on the price. …

Public procurement contracts (PPCs) of goods, services and works is about one tenth of global gross domestic product …

We analyse procurement auctions in which sellers are distinguished on the basis of the ratios of quality per unit of … ratio offered is selected as the winner of the auction. We model the decision process as based on a general noisy ranking of …

Many organizations use procurement tenders to buy large amounts of goods and services. Especially in the public sector … the use of these reverse auctions has grown rapidly over the past decades. For the (reverse) unit price auction experience … competition, incentives in unit price auction change in such a way that can make bid skewing disappear. …