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Competitive Bidding for Medicare Services
Medical Care, 1993One of the key issues in implementing prospective Medicare fee schedules is how to set prices that accurately reflect competitive market forces. Competitive bidding has long been used in government procurement efforts for nonhealth services. In this paper, we evaluate how provider behavior will be affected if Medicare uses competitive bidding to set ...
T J, Hoerger, T M, Waters
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Competitive Bidding: A Comprehensive Bibliography
Operations Research, 1971This paper lists, alphabetically by first author, over 100 papers and books dealing with competitive bidding.
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Ethics in competitive bidding and contracting
Science and Engineering Ethics, 2004An earlier version of this paper was presented at the “Ethics and Social Responsibility in Engineering and Technology” meeting, New Orleans, 2003.
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Competitive Bidding with Dependent Value Estimates
Operations Research, 1980A bidding situation in which there is uncertainty about the value of the item of interest is modeled. The uncertainty is modeled in probabilistic terms, and the model allows the errors of estimation (the differences between expected values and the actual value) of the bidders to be dependent.
Robert L. Winkler, Daniel G. Brooks
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Evaluation of Competitive Bids
Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 1995The evaluation of competitive bids is a difficult process with little objective guidance provided to those who make the decisions to accept or reject bids. A quantitative evaluation method is proposed to utilize a collective assessment of project value, a measure of disagreement, and an expected recurrence relationship in order to identify unreasonably
Larry G. Crowley, Donn E. Hancher
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Omega, 1973
Abstract This paper replaces the competitive bidding models of Friedman and Gates with a more general probabalistic bidding model which resolves the conflict between them. The validity of the model is demonstrated by simulation. Practical difficulties of using the probabalistic approach are discussed and several lines of future research suggested.
FJ Curtis, PW Maines
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Abstract This paper replaces the competitive bidding models of Friedman and Gates with a more general probabalistic bidding model which resolves the conflict between them. The validity of the model is demonstrated by simulation. Practical difficulties of using the probabalistic approach are discussed and several lines of future research suggested.
FJ Curtis, PW Maines
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Competition and Regulation in Franchise Bidding
Journal of Regulatory Economics, 2004In this work we show that the separation property identified in the franchise bidding literature depends strictly on the hypothesis of coincidence of the regulator's beliefs with those of the competing firms. Nevertheless, in many contexts it is more truthful to hypothesize that the regulator's information is vaguer than that of the producers, so we ...
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1992
Abstract All The Games we have so far considered involve only two players. Negotiation games sometimes involve three or more participants. Most of what we learn from two-person games about the possibilities for gains from trade carries over to the case of three or more players.
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Abstract All The Games we have so far considered involve only two players. Negotiation games sometimes involve three or more participants. Most of what we learn from two-person games about the possibilities for gains from trade carries over to the case of three or more players.
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Health Care Management Review, 1985
The survival and growth of existing health care organizations will depend largely on their ability to adapt to the various cost containment efforts of private and public purchasers of medical care.
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The survival and growth of existing health care organizations will depend largely on their ability to adapt to the various cost containment efforts of private and public purchasers of medical care.
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