collusion in procurement auctions. We find that debarments and their most common alternative, fines, reduce collusion and bids …

Governmental agencies use score procurement auctions to incorporate other attributes beyond price in their purchase …-attribute procurement, where bids are evaluated using a preannounced quasi-linear score, calculated on the basis of the submitted levels of …-bid- first-price auctions to multi-attribute score auctions by incorporating the optimal bidding structure …

Cost overrun is ubiquitous in public procurement. We argue that this can be the result of a constraint optimal award …

Public procurement contracts (PPCs) of goods, services and works is about one tenth of global gross domestic product …-level. This study exploits sealed-bid PPC auctions of construction works, discontinuity in bidders' win margin and firms' daily …

auctions. Academic research on multi-sourcing procurement auction typically analyzes these auctions as stand-alone events. In … that might fail to deliver. The buyer conducts a procurement auction to determine contract suppliers and can choose between … plays an important role in procurement practice but attracted little attention in the academic analysis of procurement …

Public procurement contracts (PPCs) of goods, services and works is about one tenth of global gross domestic product …-level. This study exploits sealed-bid PPC auctions of construction works, discontinuity in bidders’ win margin and firms’ daily …

Procurement auctions that assume independent private values (IPV) provide a benchmark for analysis that is readily … expected quantities sold and selling prices of some endogenous-quantity procurement auction formats. The resulting equilibrium …