Bidding behavior in the Deparment of Defense`s comercial activities competitions
By: SNYDER, Christopher M
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Contributor(s): TROST, Robert P | TRUNKEY, R.Derek.
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ArticlePublisher: 2001Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 20, 1, p. 21-42Abstract: From 1978 to 1994, the Department of Defense conducted more than 2.000 competitions in which private contractors and the government`s in-house team bid to provide a service performed in-house before the competition. A three-equation model is contructed, which is used to estimate the in-house bid, the minimum contractor bid, and the in-house team`s baseline cost. The model accounts for the fact that the in-house bid is constrained not to exceed its baseline cost. The estimates are used in simulations of the savings from the completed competitions ($1.55 billion annually, 35 percent of the baseline cost) as well as the savings from various alternative policies, including competitively tendering all the functions on the Department of Defense`s list of potential candidates($7.58 billion annually)
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From 1978 to 1994, the Department of Defense conducted more than 2.000 competitions in which private contractors and the government`s in-house team bid to provide a service performed in-house before the competition. A three-equation model is contructed, which is used to estimate the in-house bid, the minimum contractor bid, and the in-house team`s baseline cost. The model accounts for the fact that the in-house bid is constrained not to exceed its baseline cost. The estimates are used in simulations of the savings from the completed competitions ($1.55 billion annually, 35 percent of the baseline cost) as well as the savings from various alternative policies, including competitively tendering all the functions on the Department of Defense`s list of potential candidates($7.58 billion annually)
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