The studied procurement concerns planning regional public bus routes, regional transport services (mainly busses, in total 250), and some local transport services (school busses) [29].
We apply these tools to studying procurement auctions in which, as is common in practice, one seller is given an advantage, reflecting for example better reliability or quality.
I study a procurement problem where each seller can ex ante decide to become an intermediary by outsourcing production to a subcontractor.
All authors have contributed to the development of the study and procurement of funding.
Every one of the authors contributed to the conception of the study, the procurement of funding, the design and coordination, and the preparation of this manuscript.
"She knows where the bodies are buried," said Eric Miller, senior defense investigator for the Project on Government Oversight, a Washington nonprofit group that studies military procurement issues.
The model was applied to two separate case studies, namely, procurement of corn stover from farms arranged in a generic grid pattern, and procurement of corn stover, switchgrass, and Miscanthus for a region of thirteen counties in Southern Illinois.
Barry Rundquist and Thomas Carsey's study of military procurement in the United States demonstrates that this has a distributive aspect.
