117. An assessment of value for money for the 1993 to 1996 decommissioning scheme can be measured against a number of criteria. These include a further examination of what capacity would have been reduced in the absence of decommissioning (additionality both in actual and net cost terms), contributions to decommissioning expenditure from the Government, the European Commission and from fisherme...

An improved approach to inventory management in the Operating Theatre has been initiated at Princess Alexandra Hospital. A Clinical Resource Co-ordinator (CRC) position was created to provide access to expertise in purchasing and materials management at the clinical level. A review of existing inventory management practices conducted by the CRC revealed reporting inadequacies, lack of product s...

During the last two decades a deregulation trend has flourished. In Western Europe this trend commenced within local and regional public transport. The privatisation of the English bus industry, even the long distance coach services, represents the "full market solution", where both supply, prices and the operation are in the hands of competing profit maximising firms. In the Nordic countries a...

Process management is becoming more complex especially when business units work together to create new systems constructed from many components. The complexity arises both from the growing number of components and relationships as well as continual changes in product requirements and business arrangements. The complexity impacts on process management as support systems are needed to provide the...

This paper provides an overview of some of the most salient recent evolutions in the fields of organisational forms and competition in the European public transport industry. It focuses mainly on local and regional public transport, and to a lesser extent on the railway sector. Competitive tendering is now a well-established practice in several European countries and it is still spreading to fu...

A relevant part of software industry deals with ad hoc software solutions, which are externalized by software consumers. The process of acquirment follows a public procedure of requesting proposals. This procedure is based on a call-for-tenders document that contains, at least, a software specification and project constraints, such as budget and time. The general assumption is that the requirem...

There is fundamental difference between a simple e-tender box and a traditional physical tender box. Access to the e-tender box has become a private activity in contrast with the public access to a traditional tender box. A significant opportunity is therefore created for malicious business collusion by use of a simple e-tender box even though it may have cryptographic keys. This indicates that...

Buying environmental services from private landholders using tendering mechanisms are usually subject to a budget constraint. Auction theory has mostly focused on target-constrained auctions and is not well developed for this type of auction. This paper examines the predictive capacity of a simple model developed for budget-constrained tenders, already used to design new conservation programs, ...