Contractor selection in government procurement auctions: a case study

Sidhartha Siladitya Padhi and Pratap Kumar Jagadev Mohapatra

European Journal of Industrial Engineering, 2009, vol. 3, issue 2, 170-186

Abstract: This paper aims to present a combined fuzzy Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP) and Simple Multi-Attribute Ranking Technique (SMART) approach to deal with the contractor selection problem in government procurement auctions. The proposed approach utilises a set of ten attributes for the evaluation of a contractor. In this approach, the attributes of both the past performance and the present status of the contractor is considered wherein the selection attributes are qualitative and/or quantitative type having inhibiting and/or enabling in nature. A case study of the Rural Development Department of the government of Orissa has been taken up to demonstrate the contractor selection process. [Submitted 9 February 2008; Revised 27 June 2008; Revised 8 August 2008; Accepted 12 August 2008]

Keywords: government procurement; procurement auctions; fuzzy AHP; analytical hierarchical process; simple multi-attribute ranking technique; fuzzy AHP-SMART; contractor selection; rural development. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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