Journal of Public Procurement: Volume 19 Issue 3

Revisiting reliability of estimates at completion for department of defense contracts

Deborah B. Kim, Edward D. White, Jonathan D. Ritschel, Chad A. Millette

Within earned value management, the cost performance index (CPI) and the critical ratio (CR) are used to generate the estimates at completion (EACs). According to the research in…

Multicriteria approach to select the most economically advantageous tender: The application of AHP in Italian public procurement

Gabriella Marcarelli, Andrea Nappi

This paper aims to show how the proposed approach (two analytic hierarchy process [AHP] models) may allow dealing with the best tender selection process in an organic and simple…

Basic research public procurement: the impact on supplier companies

Martina Dal Molin, Ezio Previtali

The purpose of this paper is to estimate and assess the impact of public procurement activities of an Italian basic research center (the National Institute for Nuclear Physics…

Implementing public procurement of innovations in an organization: lessons from Norway

Deodat Mwesiumo, Kjetil Magnus Olsen, Geir Arne Svenning, Richard Glavee-Geo

The purpose of this paper is to explore the drivers, enablers, barriers, key success factors, pitfalls and benefits of implementing public procurement of innovations (PPoI) in an…