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For the award of public procurement contracts, contracting authorities use one of the two different approaches, namely, the lowest price or the most economically advantageous tender. The latter is applied when price and quality matter. In this case, scoring rule, which transfers the price and quality of bidder’s offer into the points, is needed.
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In the modern public procurement, contracts can be awarded according to results of bids comparing on one or more criteria. In the second case, the contracting authority (or, other words, public buyer) has to assign scores to suppliers’ bids on each criterion. In the international practice, there are a lot of assignment rules, which have been applied for a long time without serious trouble.
However, the experience of the Russian Federation has revealed that in the institutional environment, which is characterized by corruption, low...
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Ivanov, A. (2017). The Scope of Some Scoring Rules Applying. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_2788-1
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