Journal of Public Procurement: Volume 19 Issue 2

Increasing procurement efficiency through optimal e-commerce enablement scheduling

Susan Cholette, Andrew G. Clark, Özgür Özlük

This study aims to show how cost savings can be achieved through optimizing the scheduling of e-commerce enablements. The University of California is one of the largest, most…

Public procurement spend analysis at a national level in Finland

Timo Kivisto, Veli Matti Virolainen

The purpose of this paper is to make a contribution for the unclear boundaries of public procurement in accounting terms. International organizations, public organizations’…

Incentives and risk-sharing in public procurement of innovations: Towards contracting strategy framework

Niko Suhonen, Timo Tammi, Jani Saastamoinen, Jarkko Pesu, Matti Turtiainen, Lasse Okkonen

Public procurement of innovations (PPIs) addresses a specified need of the public-sector customer or aims at fostering private firms’ innovativeness. In an operational sense…

Trust-building in a coopetitive multi-supplier network

Markus Järvinen

Alliances are an important form of cooperation in the contemporary world. Although most of the different alliances have been rigorously studied, one type of alliance has been…

Implementing category management of services – a new methodology

Aruna Apte, Corey Arruda, Austin Clark, Karen Landale

In an increasingly budget-constrained environment, the Department of Defense (DoD) must maximize the value of fiscal resources obligated on service contracts. Over half of DoD…