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Innovations in defense acquisition auctions: lessons learned and alternative mechanism designs

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Coughlan, Peter
Gates, William
Lamping, Jennifer
Date
2008
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Since 1997, the Department of Defense (DoD) has shown increasing interest in using reverse auctions, particularly electronic reverse auctions, to purchase a wide range of products and services. The research describes DoD's experience with acquisition auctions, identifying the characteristics of the buyers, sellers, and the products/services exchanged through auctions. In general, reverse auctions have been limited to procurement actions involving relatively standard price-driven commercial products--products typically purchased through traditional competitive markets. It appears that DoD has substituted reverse auctions for the market research required in the standard DoD procurement processes
 
the auction service providers are replacing federal procurement agents in advertising the procurement action and soliciting bids from competing suppliers. Drawing on this background, this research examines auction mechanism(s) that appear appropriate for the defense acquisition environment. Two specific auction designs are explored. The first is a two-stage Iterated Information Aggregation Auction (Ip2sAp2s) involving multiple product characteristics--including price--that are specified as part of the auction bidding process. In the Ip2sAp2s, the first stage acts as market research for gathering information dispersed across the decentralized contractor base to establish characteristic weights to evaluate proposals in the second stage. The research showed significant potential performance improvements when decentralized trade-off information is centralized through the Ip2sAp2s mechanism. The second auction mechanism involves situations where the quality of fit between the buyer and seller affect the transaction's value (e.g., synergy between an author and an editor, etc.). This analysis explores the impact of asymmetric information on the mechanism's design. The research developed optimal mechanisms for transactions where both parties know the quality of fit and transactions in which only one party (the buyer or sellers)
 
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Acquisition research (Graduate School of Business & Public Policy)
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http://hdl.handle.net/10945/425
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NPS-AM-08-013
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