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1 List of figures List of tables List of contributors Preface viii ix x xiii Part I Preliminary Issues 1 Introduction 3 Nicola Dimitri, Gustavo Piga and Giancarlo Spagnolo 2 The variety of procurement practice: evidence from public procurement 14 Laura Carpineti, Gustavo Piga and Matteo Zanza Part II General Strategic Principles 3 When should procurement be centralized? 47 Nicola Dimitri, Federico Dini and Gustavo Piga 4 Procurement contracting strategies 82 Gian Luigi Albano, Giacomo Calzolari, Federico Dini, Elisabetta Iossa and Giancarlo Spagnolo 5 Incentives and award procedures: competitive tendering vs. negotiations in procurement 121 Patrick Bajari and Steve Tadelis Part III Competitive Tendering Strategies 6 Information and competitive tendering 143 Gian Luigi Albano, Nicola Dimitri, Riccardo Pacini and Giancarlo Spagnolo V

2 vi 7 Division into lots and competition in procurement 168 Veronika Grimm, Riccardo Pacini, Giancarlo Spagnolo and Matteo Zanza 8 Multi-contract tendering procedures and package bidding in procurement 193 Nicola Dimitri, Riccardo Pacini, Marco Pagnozzi and Giancarlo Spagnolo 9 Dynamic auctions in procurement 220 Lawrence M. Ausubel and Peter Cramton Part IV Attracting and Screening Participants 10 Pricing and other business strategies for e-procurement platforms 249 Bruno Jullien 11 Fostering participation 267 Gian Luigi Albano, Nicola Dimitri, Isabelle Perrigne and Gustavo Piga 12 Scoring rules 293 Federico Dini, Riccardo Pacini and Tommaso Valletti 13 Managing risky bids 322 Andreas Engel, Juan-José Ganuza, Esther Hauk and Achim Wambach Part V Preventing Collusion and Corruption 14 Preventing collusion in procurement 347 Gian Luigi Albano, Paolo Buccirossi, Giancarlo Spagnolo and Matteo Zanza 15 Bidding rings and the design of anti-collusive measures for auctions and procurements 381 William E. Kovacic, Robert C. Marshall, Leslie M. Marx and Matthew E. Raiff 16 Corruption in procurement auctions 412 Yvan Lengwiler and Elmar Wolfstetter

3 vii Part VI Dynamic Forces and Innovation 17 Managing dynamic procurements 433 Tracy R. Lewis and Huseyin Yildirim 18 Designing reputation mechanisms 446 Chrysanthos Dellarocas, Federico Dini and Giancarlo Spagnolo 19 Procuring innovations 483 Luis Cabral, Guido Cozzi, Vincenzo Denicolò, Giancarlo Spagnolo and Matteo Zanza Glossary 530 Index 534

4 Figures 2.1. Purchased value as a percentage of total public procurement, Participation requirements Number of participation requirements requested Main reasons to split a contract into lots Information disclosed after the awarding of the contract Individual supply bid, round Aggregate supply curve Linear scoring rule: the role of the price threshold Parabolic scoring Uniform distribution Concentrated distribution on high prices and ALT 314 VIII

5 Tables 2.1. Strategies adopted by the institutions in choosing number and type of lots PROPER s costs with known common component PROPER s costs with unknown common component Sample of buildings inspected by PROPER Sample of buildings inspected by CHIEF Bidder s estimates for lot B Submitted discounts in a two-stage sealed-bid tendering Point allocation among price and non-price attributes: an example for PCs Uniform distribution Concentrated distribution on high prices and an abnormal low tender Comparing scoring rules on the basis of some key features Submitted discounts at the radiopaque agents sealed-bid tendering (2000) Repeated Coordinated bidding in Sardinia ( ) Market share in the meal ticket industry (1999) Market shares in the meal ticket auction Participating suppliers and discounts offered US penalties for cartel offenders: 1970 and 2005 compared Mean vs. median aggregation in scoring auctions Examples of online feedback mechanisms 449 IX