Tenders in the Dutch construction industry: The impact of client decisions on the tender competition

As a result of decreasing competition within the procurement of large construction projects in the Dutch construction sector, the need arises to understand the mechanisms behind the competition. Especially how decisions by clients on the procurement of construction projects impact the number of competitors. When this is understood, clients can...

A strategy towards integrating sustainability into the procurement practices in projects: Developing a sustainability framework for EPC companies

Sustainability is seen as one of the most important challenges faced by the world today (Silvius, 2017). Within EPC companies, there are quite some ambitions at the strategic level to integrate sustainability into project procurement, but implementation at the project level is still quite limited. Additionally, existing literature focusing on...

Hospital-based Health Technology Management: Analysing the Procurement Process from a Network Perspective

From a practical perspective, the UK, like so many other countries, is struggling to have a complete HTM implementation. The sources suggest that British health care managers face financial and personnel availability pressures, and this makes it difficult to follow the instructions provided by the various organizations for the implementation of...

Buyer groups as catalyst for sustainable procurement: A guideline for (semi-) public clients to implement buyer groups in the pre-procurement process of construction projects to minimise carbon emissions and maximise circularity

<b>Background: </b>The construction sector has a 10-year time span to become 50% circular and to reduce carbon emissions by 49% compared to 1990. This time span is even shorter for public clients, as the Dutch government functions as launching customer, and strives make its own...

Public Procurement For Innovation: Optimising the preparation phase of the innovation partnership and competitive dialogue procedure for Dutch public authorities procuring for innovation in the Physical domain

The possibilities public procurement offers regarding the stimulation of innovation for the benefit of economic growth and the competitiveness of markets have been increasingly receiving attention over the past two decades. In 2014 a long awaited update of the European directive governing procurement procedures was published. Among these...