To survive in a customer focused environment, organisations have had to become more effective and efficient. The promised benefits of integrated systems made their implementation a popular attempt at such success in the private sector. The implementation of integrated systems in the private sector is well documented. However, integrated systems are still a relatively new phenomenon in the publi...

Consider a government tendering the right to operate, for example, an airport, telecommunication network, or utility. There is an “incumbent bidder” who owns a complement or substitute facility, and one entering “new bidder”. With a “standard auction” on the payment to the government, the incumbent is willing to bid higher than its expected profit from the facility as winning implies that it is...

The electronic tendering and bidding system has realized the digitalization, networking, high integration of whole process tendering, bidding, bid evaluation, contract, which a wide range applications. However, trust degree, cooperation, transaction efficiency parties involved in are low, fraud collusion forbidden repeatedly. Blockchain technology characteristics decentralization, transparent t...

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The purpose of this study was to establish the influence E-Tendering practices on supply chain performance County Governments Western Kenya. applied a descriptive research design and target population comprised senior officers all five counties in western Kenya namely; Kakamega, Busia, Vihiga, Bungoma Trans-Nzoia. Census Technique entire since it small manageable. Questionnaire used for Data co...

WeBid is a prototype web-based framework developed for supporting and facilitating early supplier involvement in new product development on the Internet. It provides a suite of rigorous and yet pragmatic constructs for establishing and managing the customer-supplier relationships in new product development process. This paper reports on some insights and experience gained from a real-life case ...