DOE's next Environmental Management Business Opportunities Forum has been scheduled for March 20, 2018, from 10:15 AM-12:00 noon (Arizona MT) to discuss the status of ongoing and upcoming procurement opportunities with EM. The event will be held during the Waste Management Conference in Exhibit Hall 4, Phoenix Convention Center. Attendees must be registered for the conference and in possession ...

The Single European Market Programme was formally instigated with the Single European Act in 1987. It included around 300 measures designed to eliminate non-tariff barriers to trade (e.g. border controls, national standards, public procurement biases and national restrictions on entry). The essence of our approach is that barriers to trade/competition influence the organisation of the market (i...

Public procurement constitutes a large part of the market in many countries, and it has the potential of playing an important role in stimulating communities and serving policy goals. With this in mind the governments have set regulations for public procurement. Procurement of Information Systems is especially challenging due to the complexity of procuring unknown technology and the importance ...

Long life cycle products, commonly found in aviation, medical and critical infrastructure applications, are often fielded and supported for long periods of time (20 years or more). The manufacture and support of long life cycle products rely on the availability of suitable parts, which over long periods of time, leaves the parts susceptible to a number of possible supply chain disruptions such ...

The Great Leap Forward disaster, characterized by a collapse in grain production and a widespread famine in China between 1959 and 1961, is found attributable to a systemic failure in central planning. Wishfully expecting a great leap in agricultural productivity from collectivization, the Chinese government accelerated its aggressive industrialization timetable. Grain output fell sharply as th...

In this paper, we present a genetic algorithm (GA) for optimization of a multi-mode resource constrained time cost trade off (MRCTCT) problem. The proposed GA, each activity has several operational modes and each mode identifies a possible executive time and cost of the activity. Beyond earlier studies on time-cost trade-off problem, in MRCTCT problem, resource requirements of each execution mo...

A number of benefits of e-procurement systems have been identified by researchers and by practitioners. However, the selection of an appropriate solution from a large number of available solutions is still considered difficult in practice. Traditional cost-benefit and business strategy approaches fall short to provide guidelines regarding an appropriate, let alone optimal level of information s...

D development of an innovative product there is often considerable uncertainty about component production cost, and it is of interest for both the manufacturer and the supplier to engage in a collaborative effort to reduce this uncertainty and lower the expected cost. Despite the obvious benefits this brings, the supplier may be reluctant to collaborate as he fears revealing his proprietary cos...

This paper addresses reputation and familiarity as determinants of trust in online banking and examines the effects of experience as a moderator in a Latin American context. The study uses data from two countries, Chile and Bolivia that represent the highest and lowest Internet penetration in the region. The effects of reputation and familiarity on trust are supported. However, these relationsh...