We study the effect of cheap talk between bidders on the outcome of a first-price procurement game with N sellers in …

In this article we present various issues that underline public procurement, critically evaluate some of the … procurement practices and discuss the role of the regulator.1 The objective of the study is to bring forth various issues that … dominate public procurement, identify the challenges and suggest framework to address them. We lay particular emphasis on …

The government procurement comprises a substantial amount of total procurement for every economy in the recent years …. In light of the present procurement market and existing structure, this study throws a light on the evolving amount of … the procurement by the Indian PSUs in recent years in the light of the WTO agreements. Though there is some degree of …

procurement and contract management, better projects implementation and better monitoring are still needed, in spite of the …

opportunity to reconstruct an intensive procurement process by detailed first‐hand information in a specific case.  …

to PPP/PFI “best value”, advantages and disadvantages, and government preferred procurement routes, are investigated. The … two UK Government preferred procurement routes, “design and build” and “prime contracting”. Practical implications – This … questions the UK Government's choice of preferred procurement routes. However, even during a recession and its aftermath, the …

integrated procurement process, which develops incentive structures for action and effectively connects actors at various levels …