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Procurement
About: Procurement is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 25669 publications have been published within this topic receiving 334145 citations.
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Patent•
05 Jan 2001
TL;DR: A secure electronic procurement system as discussed by the authors allows a user to order and confirm receipt electronically over a network (e.g. Internet) goods normally subject to a verifiable chain of custody (i.e. narcotics, controlled drugs and substances, other public distribution regulated goods or valuables).
Abstract: A secure electronic procurement system allows a user (e.g. pharmacist) to order and confirm receipt electronically over a network (e.g. Internet) goods normally subject to a verifiable chain of custody (e.g. narcotics, controlled drugs and substances, other public distribution regulated goods or valuables). The system includes hardware and software for a user device, a secure procurement system, a supplier system and a certificate authority to authenticate communications, particularly user orders and confirmed receipts. The supplier system may be a legacy EDI based order system. Copies of electronic orders, shipping notices and receipts confirming shipment received together with digital signatures are securely stored for audit trail purposes. Business rules within the secure procurement system operate to ensure proper adherence to the chain of custody.
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Journal Article•
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the origin and evolution of regulatory reforms from 1979 to 2009, focusing on the markets for passenger services in Sweden and showed that the origins of the Swedish reform process were internal and largely unrelated to any objectives of deregulated market-opening.
Abstract: The Swedish bus and railway sectors have been recognised as important early cases of regulatory reforms that led to both vertical and horizontal disintegration as well as market-opening. This thesis investigates the origin and evolution of these reforms from 1979 to 2009, focussing on the markets for passenger services. The aim is to improve our understanding of the background, resulting nature, and consequences of these regulatory reforms. A combination of qualitative and quantitative analyses has been applied; e.g. the thesis makes use of a unique database of longitudinal industry statistics. This thesis shows that the origins of the Swedish reform process were internal and largely unrelated to any objectives of deregulated market-opening. However, a combination of the nature of the initial reforms, the behaviour of market actors, and certain key events accidentally sparked a trend towards deregulation, which has had profound effects on market structure and performance. The step-by-step evolution, in particular the introduction and expansion of competitive tendering, is shown to have had path-dependent characteristics. Swedish competitive tendering of bus and railway services has had important effects on costs and subsidies, but has also generated the problematic behaviour of strategic bidding. Included within are detailed articles which make additional contributions to relevant theories and offer normative advice concerning the design and implementation of regulatory reforms in these as well as other sectors.
79 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the relationship between cost and number of bidders for U.K. refuse collection contracts and find that a higher number of bids is associated with a lower cost of service.
Abstract: In this paper we investigate the relationship betweencosts and number of bidders for U.K. local authorities'refuse collection contracts. We find that a highernumber of bids is associated with a lower cost ofservice. This finding, as well as being an importantempirical verification of standard proposition inauction theory, has important policy implications. TheU.K. Labour government elected in 1997 has abolishedCompulsory Competitive Tendering (CCT). Our findingsindicate that this would increase local authorities'expenditure in refuse collection.
79 citations
Book•
01 Sep 1993
TL;DR: The economic significance of industry development the construction product materials and components technology construction firms procurement contracts capital and investment the professions management and supervision planning, programming and progressing manpower planning and human relations education and training innovation and research overseas development as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Economic significance of industry development the construction product materials and components technology construction firms procurement contracts capital and investment the professions management and supervision planning, programming and progressing manpower planning and human relations education and training innovation and research overseas development.
79 citations
TL;DR: In this article, an initial model of how private sector bidders decide whether to bid for contracts is proposed based on an empirical study, and a distinction is drawn between two separate assessments made by potential bidder, the risk of bidding and risk of the project.
79 citations