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

that might fail to deliver. The buyer conducts a procurement auction to determine contract suppliers and can choose between … auctions. Academic research on multi-sourcing procurement auction typically analyzes these auctions as stand-alone events. In …-maximizing suppliers who might fail to deliver. The buyer conducts a procurement auction to determine contract suppliers and can choose …

Procurement within the NHS is attracting increasing research and policy interest. However, most of the emphasis has … medical devices very little is publicly documented about procurement and even less about the supplying industry. This paper … uses a case study of artificial hip prostheses to indirectly explore how procurement choices are made within the NHS. We …