Two-envelope fee bidding is used frequently in allocating commissions to willing consultants such as architects …, engineers and surveyors. Consultant fees and technical scores are normally aggregated to form a total score. The consultant … obtaining the highest total score is usually awarded the commission. The consultant's objective is to get the highest total …

Consultants, in competing for work through two-envelope fee tendering, have been urged to consider variability … differences between fees and technical scores, since the criterion with the greatest variability will influence which consultant … is awarded the contract. Fee and technical score variability arising from different client fee tendering competitions is …

to implement these systems. However, there is little evidence on the determinants of the consultant’s advice about … likely to influence the consultant’s advice to the manager.In study 2, I conduct an experiment using professional consultants … to investigate whether the consultant’s advice to adopt an MCS depends on its distinctiveness (i.e. whether or not the …

, qualitative research that examined the consultant–client relationship from the perspective of both individuals in a context of pro …