This paper discusses the content, origin and development of tendering theory as a theory of price determination. It … demonstrates how tendering theory determines prices and how it is different from game and decision theories, and that in the … tendering process, with non-cooperative, simultaneous, single sealed bids with individual private valuations, extensive public …

Consultants' fees and technical submissions in two-envelope fee tendering are usually converted to scores. The fee … undertaken in the popular two-envelope fee tendering models. It seems that in many cases the consultant selection becomes biased …

Two-envelope fee bidding is used frequently in allocating commissions to willing consultants such as architects …

Consultants, in competing for work through two-envelope fee tendering, have been urged to consider variability … is awarded the contract. Fee and technical score variability arising from different client fee tendering competitions is … analysed in this paper, and a method proposed for determining whether a particular client's two-envelope fee tendering …

This paper compares two approaches for providing public transport: competitive tendering and vouchers. The functioning … of tendering is well known. The voucher alternative means that commercial operators charge passengers a fare and are also …

to feed in tariff (FIT), renewable portfolio standards or tendering scheme. Of them, FIT promoted by the second comer of …

This is the first paper in the literature to formally study the cost impact of competitive tendering in rail … competitive tendering reduced costs by around 12%. This cost reduction was not associated with falling quality as measured by … competitive tendering in Sweden has been beneficial. …