We examine auction data to determine if bid rigging presents in procurement auctions for paving works in Ibaraki City …

Reverse auctions are considered a fast and inexpensive price discovery tool to award procurement contracts and it is … often desirable to award contracts to more than one supplier. We propose a new procurement procedure that is based on a … enough, the procedure not only allows taking advantage of dual sourcing but also generates lower procurement expenditures …

We propose a new procurement procedure which allocates shares of the total amount to be procured depending on the bids … of suppliers. Among the properties of the mechanism are:(i) Bidders have an incentive to participate in the procurement …, procurement expenditures might be lower than under a classical auction format …

We compare two procurement mechanisms, bundling and unbundling, in a two-stage auction model with risk-averse suppliers …

Different types of products are procured in government procurement auctions. This paper empirically analyzes the effect … of competition (number of bidders) on procurement price of different types of products. In other words, we investigate … the optimal number of bidders which minimizes procurement costs in auctions for services, goods and construction. We use a …

We study the effects of corruption on equilibrium competition and social welfare in a first-price public procurement …

payment rule. Secondly, we introduce a simple two-stage mechanism which always leads to a decrease in procurement costs …

In government procurement auctions of construction contracts, entrants are typically less informed and bid more … encourage entry in government procurement auctions and thus increase competition …