Syllabus
Updated A.Y. 2023-2024
Updated A.Y. 2023-2024
University of Rome Tor Vergata – Faculty of Economics
Academic Year 2023-2024
Master of Sciences in Business Administration
Economics of Procurement
CLASSROOM
MODULE’s coordinator:
Prof. Gustavo Piga e-mail: gustavo.piga@uniroma2.it tel.: 06/7259-5701
CONTRIBUTORS TO THE MODULE:
Prof. Alessio D’Amato (6 hours)
Prof. Nicola Dimitri (10 hours)
Prof. Gustavo Piga (20 hours)
https://zoom.us/my/aulagg3workshop
The Program
Sourcing and procurement are becoming a key strategic function of modern economic organizations. These Lectures are meant to support the student with basic procurement tools.
The topics:
1) Contracts for sourcing and competitive procurement;
2) Corruption and ethics in sourcing;
3) Centralizing procurement: the trade-offs;
4) Quality and procurement;
5) Award Procedures;
6) Contracting Strategies;
7) SMEs and Procurement;
8) Green and Sustainable Procurement,
9) Scoring rules in procurement;
10) Innovation and procurement.
The Material:
The teacher will refer the student, by the end of each week, to the library where she/he will find relevant material on the basis of the following textbooks:
- Handbook of Procurement, edited by Nicola Dimitri, Gustavo Piga and Giancarlo Spagnolo (to be purchased at discount) Cambridge University Press 2) Handouts.
- Jean Tirole and Stéphane Saussier http://www.cae-eco.fr/IMG/pdf/cae-note022-env2.pdf
Exam rules: Presence in class is essential and monitored with signatures. Students with 30 hours presence at least will only face an oral exam with Prof. Piga.
Students with less than 30 hours presence will also pass a written exam and, if passed, an oral exam.
Office Hours, room of Prof. Piga (3rd floor, Building B): via appointment via e-mail.
Lesson 1, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Monday, November 6th, 2023, 9-11 AM
Lesson 2, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Tuesday, November 7th, 2023, 9-11 AM
Lesson 3, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Wednesday, November 8th, 2023, 9-11 AM
Lesson 4, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Monday, November 13th, 2023, 9-11 AM
Lesson 5, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Tuesday, November 14th, 2023, 9-11 AM
Lesson 6, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Wednesday, November 15th, 2023, 9-11 AM
Lesson 12, Prof. Alessio D’Amato, Monday, November 27th, 2023, 9-11 AM
Lesson 13, Prof. Alessio D’Amato, Tuesday, November 28th, 2023, 9-11 AM
Lesson 14, Prof. Alessio D’Amato, Wednesday, November 29th, 2023, 9-11 AM
Lesson 15, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Monday, December 4th, 2023, 9-11 AM
Lesson 16, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Tuesday, December 5th, 2023, 9-11 AM
Lesson 17, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Wednesday, December 6th, 2023, 9-11 AM
Lesson 18, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Wednesday, December 11th, 2023, 9-11 AM
Prof. Piga will cover the following topics:
Definitions and benchmarking of procurement practices.
Competition and Quality in Procurement: Substitutes or Complements? Summing-up.
Ethics in procurement. Definition of corruption. Modalities of corruption in procurement. Corruption, competition and collusion. Ethics in Procurement. The role of transparency. The role of checks and controls. E-procurement and corruption. The Challenge of e-proc and Centralization or the e-proc and Centralization challenges? Models of E-procurement.
Procurement and small firms.
Centralization of procurement in complex organizations. Benchmarking across public administrations. Possible systems of governance. Impact of centralization. The issue of competences.
Prof. Alessio D’Amato will cover the following topics in the sustainable (and specifically green) procurement literature and public debate, related to the development and implementation of Green Public Procurement (GPP) as an environmental policy tool:
- An introduction to the economics of sustainable development and environmental problems
- GPP: an introduction
- GPP in real life: implementation examples.
- Is GPP an efficient environmental policy tool?
- Cost effectiveness
- Environmental effectiveness
- Incentives to eco-innovation
- How can GPP be improved?
- GPP design and economic performances
- GPP design and enforcement
Lessons 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 Prof. Nicola Dimitri, Monday, November 20th 9-11 AM and 2 to 4 PM, Tuesday, November 21st, 9-11 AM and 2 to 4 PM, Wednesday, November 22nd 9-11.
Centralizing procurement: the trade-offs;
Award procedures.
- Competitive Tendering
- Negotiation
Procurement Contracting Strategies
- Fixed Price Contracts
- Cost plus fee contracts
- Incentive contracts
Competitive Procurement Design:
- Winner’s Curse, Buyer’s Curse
- Information and the Choice of Auctions
Lots and (Un)Bundling
- Number of Lots: (Un)Bundling, Participation and Competition
- Package Bidding as Endogenous Lot Design
The choice of the awarding criteria: LP vs MEAT
- Weighting price and quality
- Introduction to scoring rules
- Application of scoring rules in procurement:
- Manipulability and collusion
A brief profile of the teachers:
Nicola Dimitri:
Nicola Dimitri is Professor of Economics at the University of Siena (Italy). He is Life Member of Clare Hall College (Cambridge-UK), Research Associate Center for Blockchain Technologies (UCL-UK) and member of the Blockchain Center University of Zurich (CH). He was formerly Deputy Rector of the University of Siena and Head of the Economics Department. He has been Chair of Innovation Procurement (Masstricht School of Management-NL) Fullbright Student, Chevening Scholar, NATO-CNR and Fernand Braudel Fellow (EUI). From 2003 until 2008 he collaborated as Economic consultant with the Research Office of Consip, the Italian Procurement Agency for the public sector. His research interests include game and decision theory, behavioral and cognitive economics, procurement, health and pharmaceutical economics, innovation and incentives. He is one of the editors and of the authors of the “Handbook of Procurement (Cambridge University Press, 2006)” as well as of other articles and reports on procurement.
Alessio D’Amato:
Alessio D’Amato is Associate Professor in Economic Policy, Department of Economics and Finance, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”. His main fields of expertise are: drivers of environmental behaviours; environmental regulation; eco-innovation. He got his PhD in Economics at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, where he teaches Green Finance, Environmental Economics and Policy and Sustainable Development. He has been and is involved in national and international projects, and he is co-author of several working papers, book chapters and papers published on international peer reviewed journals (including Ecological Economics, Energy Economics, Environmental and Resource Economics, Energy Journal, Journal of Regulatory Economics and Resource and Energy Economics).
Gustavo Piga:
Gustavo Piga, Ph. D. in Economics at Columbia University, is Full Professor of Economics at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, where he chairs the Master in Procurement Management. He is the co-editor of the Handbook of Procurement, edited by Cambridge University Press. He has been a procurement consultant and a member of several Procurement Expert Groups. He has chaired the Italian Procurement Agency for Goods and Services, Consip Ltd., between 2002 and 2005. He is also the co-editor of The European Journal of Public Procurement Markets and a columnist for several newspapers. See gustavopiga.eu for more details.
Obiettivi Formativi
Il corso intende fornire agli studenti i concetti fondamentali che rendono la gestione degliacquisti strategica per il successo di impresa e del settore publbico. La lettura delle leve di gestione delle risorse umane è integrata con prospettive tratte da discipline diverse da quelle prettamente economico-politica, in linea con gli obiettivi del corso di studi di promuovere la comprensione a tutto tondo delle leve manageriali e gestionali da impiegare per il conseguimento di condizioni di eccellenza organizzativa a tendere nel tempo. Durante il corso, gli studenti avranno la possibilità di esercitarsi, studiare e sperimentare le teorie e le pratiche di gestione degli acquisti, contestualizzando i concetti empirici alla parte economica.
Grazie a questo corso, gli studenti saranno in grado di:
CONOSCENZA E CAPACITÀ DI COMPRENSIONE:
- Acquisire e dimostrare padronanza dei concetti generali relativi alla gestione degli acquisti privati e pubblici, con particolare riferimento alle dinamiche individuali;
- Comprendere e applicare gli approcci organizzativi e strategici alle principali strategie e tecniche di gestione degli acquisti;
- Identificare le teorie e i concetti chiave per la gestione efficace ed efficiente degli acquisti.
CAPACITÀ DI APPLICARE CONOSCENZA E COMPRENSIONE:
- Applicare le teorie relative all'individuo e al contesto organizzativo a situazioni concrete di lavoro;
- Contestualizzare le teorie relative alla teoria delle aste ai contesti organizzativi moderni.
AUTONOMIA DI GIUDIZIO:
- Valutare le contingenze personali e lavorative, considerando i fattori critici di successo, per formulare strategie atte al miglioramento della situazione lavorativa personale (attuale e/o futura);
- Formulare giudizi pertinenti sull'adeguatezza tra le scelte di gestione degli acquisti;
ABILITÀ COMUNICATIVE:
- Analizzare ed elaborare report scritti su casi di studio;
- Presentare concetti e creare collegamenti logici in maniera veloce.
Learning Objectives
The course aims to provide students with the fundamental concepts that make procurement management strategic for business and publico-sector success. The reading of the levers of human resources management is integrated with perspectives drawn from disciplines other than purely economic-political ones, in line with the course objectives of promoting a well-rounded understanding of the managerial and management levers to be employed for the achievement of conditions of organisational excellence over time. Throughout the course, students will have the opportunity to practice, study and experiment with purchasing management theories and practices, contextualising the empirical concepts to the economics.
Through this course, students will be able to:
KNOWLEDGE AND COMPREHENSION SKILLS:
- Acquire and demonstrate mastery of general concepts related to private and public procurement management, with particular reference to individual dynamics;
- Understand and apply organisational and strategic approaches to major procurement management strategies and techniques;
- Identify key theories and concepts for effective and efficient procurement management.
ABILITY TO APPLY KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING:
- Apply theories relating to the individual and organisational context to concrete work situations;
- Contextualise theories relating to auction theory to modern organisational contexts.
AUTONOMY OF JUDGEMENT:
- Evaluate personal and work contingencies, considering critical success factors, to formulate strategies to improve the personal (current and/or future) work situation;
- Make relevant judgements on the appropriateness of purchasing management choices;
COMMUNICATION SKILLS:
- Analyse and prepare written reports on case studies;
- Present concepts and make logical connections quickly.
GUSTAVO PIGA
Prerequisiti
Prerequisites
Programma
I. Aspetti istituzionali del procurement;
II. Aspetti strategici del procurement;
III. Aspetti sostenibili del procurement.
1) Contratti di sourcing e appalti competitivi;
2) Corruzione ed etica nel sourcing;
3) Centralizzazione degli acquisti: i compromessi;
4) Qualità e appalti;
5) Procedure di aggiudicazione;
6) Strategie di appalto;
7) PMI e appalti;
8) Acquisti verdi e sostenibili,
9) Regole di punteggio negli appalti;
10) Innovazione e appalti.
Program
I. Institutional aspects of procurement;
II. Strategic aspects of procurement;
III. Sustainable aspects of procurement.
1) Contracts for sourcing and competitive procurement;
2) Corruption and ethics in sourcing;
3) Centralizing procurement: the trade-offs;
4) Quality and procurement;
5) Award Procedures;
6) Contracting Strategies;
7) SMEs and Procurement;
8) Green and Sustainable Procurement,
9) Scoring rules in procurement;
10) Innovation and procurement.
Testi Adottati
2) Jean Tirole and Stéphane Saussier http://www.cae-eco.fr/IMG/pdf/cae-note022-env2.pdf
Durante il corso, saranno discussi casi estratti dal libro di testo.
Altro materiale didattico: sul sito del corso saranno disponibile slides e altro materiale
Books
2) Jean Tirole and Stéphane Saussier http://www.cae-eco.fr/IMG/pdf/cae-note022-env2.pdf
During the course, cases will be discussed from the textbook by Stewart & Brown.
Other learning sources: Slides and other material will be available under the course web site.
Bibliografia
Sul sito di facoltà, dopo di ogni lezione, saranno messe a disposizione le slide proiettate in aula.
Bibliography
After each lecture, the pertinent slides will be added on the faculty website.
Modalità di svolgimento
Poiché ogni studente porta in classe prospettive ed esperienze uniche, la partecipazione a discussioni e attività didattiche è essenziale per l'apprendimento individuale, così come per quello degli altri membri della classe.
Teaching methods
Regolamento Esame
L'esame si baserà su domande aperte e di contenuto, volte a evidenziare la conoscenza acquisita, nonché la capacità di concettualizzazione e ragionamento dello studente.
Ai fini della valutazione, si utilizzerà lo schema che segue:
Non idoneo: importanti carenze e/o inaccuratezze nella conoscenza e comprensione degli argomenti; limitate capacità di analisi e sintesi, frequenti generalizzazioni e limitate capacità critiche e di giudizio, gli argomenti sono esposti in modo non coerente e con linguaggio inappropriato;
18-20: conoscenza e comprensione degli argomenti appena sufficiente con possibili generalizzazioni e imperfezioni; capacità di analisi sintesi e autonomia di giudizio sufficienti, gli argomenti sono esposti in modo frequentemente poco coerente e con un linguaggio poco appropriato/tecnico;
21-23: Conoscenza e comprensione degli argomenti routinaria; Capacità di analisi e sintesi corrette con argomentazione logica sufficientemente coerente e linguaggio appropriato/tecnico
24-26: Discreta conoscenza e comprensione degli argomenti; buone capacità di analisi e sintesi con argomentazioni espresse in modo rigoroso ma con un linguaggio non sempre appropriato/tecnico.
27-29: Conoscenza e comprensione degli argomenti completa; notevoli capacità di analisi e sintesi. Buona autonomia di giudizio. Argomenti esposti in modo rigoroso e con linguaggio appropriato/tecnico
30-30L: Ottimo livello di conoscenza e comprensione approfondita degli argomenti. Ottime capacità di analisi, di sintesi e di autonomia di giudizio. Argomentazioni espresse in modo originale e con linguaggio tecnico appropriato.
Exam Rules
The examination will be based on open questions and content questions designed to highlight the knowledge acquired as well as the student's ability to conceptualise and reason.
For assessment purposes, the following scheme will be used:
Unsuitable: major deficiencies and/or inaccuracies in the knowledge and understanding of the topics; limited capacity for analysis and synthesis, frequent generalisations and limited critical and judgmental skills, the topics are set out inconsistently and with inappropriate language;
18-20: barely sufficient knowledge and understanding of the topics with possible generalisations and imperfections; sufficient capacity for analysis synthesis and autonomy of judgement, the topics are frequently exposed in an incoherent way and with inappropriate/technical language;
21-23: Routine knowledge and understanding of topics; ability to analyse and synthesise correctly with sufficiently coherent logical argumentation and appropriate/technical language
24-26: Fair knowledge and understanding of the topics; Good analytical and synthetic skills with arguments expressed in a rigorous manner but with language that is not always appropriate/technical.
27-29: Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of the topics; considerable capacity for analysis and synthesis. Good autonomy of judgement. Arguments presented in a rigorous manner and with appropriate/technical language
30-30L: Excellent level of knowledge and thorough understanding of topics. Excellent analytical and synthetic skills and independent judgement. Arguments expressed in an original manner and with appropriate technical language.
ALESSIO D'AMATO
Programma
I. Aspetti istituzionali del procurement;
II. Aspetti strategici del procurement;
III. Aspetti sostenibili del procurement.
Program
I. Institutional aspects of procurement;
II. Strategic aspects of procurement;
III. Sustainable aspects of procurement.
Regolamento Esame
L'esame si baserà su domande aperte e di contenuto, volte a evidenziare la conoscenza acquisita, nonché la capacità di concettualizzazione e ragionamento dello studente.
Ai fini della valutazione, si utilizzerà lo schema che segue:
Non idoneo: importanti carenze e/o inaccuratezze nella conoscenza e comprensione degli argomenti; limitate capacità di analisi e sintesi, frequenti generalizzazioni e limitate capacità critiche e di giudizio, gli argomenti sono esposti in modo non coerente e con linguaggio inappropriato;
18-20: conoscenza e comprensione degli argomenti appena sufficiente con possibili generalizzazioni e imperfezioni; capacità di analisi sintesi e autonomia di giudizio sufficienti, gli argomenti sono esposti in modo frequentemente poco coerente e con un linguaggio poco appropriato/tecnico;
21-23: Conoscenza e comprensione degli argomenti routinaria; Capacità di analisi e sintesi corrette con argomentazione logica sufficientemente coerente e linguaggio appropriato/tecnico
24-26: Discreta conoscenza e comprensione degli argomenti; buone capacità di analisi e sintesi con argomentazioni espresse in modo rigoroso ma con un linguaggio non sempre appropriato/tecnico.
27-29: Conoscenza e comprensione degli argomenti completa; notevoli capacità di analisi e sintesi. Buona autonomia di giudizio. Argomenti esposti in modo rigoroso e con linguaggio appropriato/tecnico
30-30L: Ottimo livello di conoscenza e comprensione approfondita degli argomenti. Ottime capacità di analisi, di sintesi e di autonomia di giudizio. Argomentazioni espresse in modo originale e con linguaggio tecnico appropriato.
Exam Rules
The examination will be based on open questions and content questions designed to highlight the knowledge acquired as well as the student's ability to conceptualise and reason.
For assessment purposes, the following scheme will be used:
Unsuitable: major deficiencies and/or inaccuracies in the knowledge and understanding of the topics; limited capacity for analysis and synthesis, frequent generalisations and limited critical and judgmental skills, the topics are set out inconsistently and with inappropriate language;
18-20: barely sufficient knowledge and understanding of the topics with possible generalisations and imperfections; sufficient capacity for analysis synthesis and autonomy of judgement, the topics are frequently exposed in an incoherent way and with inappropriate/technical language;
21-23: Routine knowledge and understanding of topics; ability to analyse and synthesise correctly with sufficiently coherent logical argumentation and appropriate/technical language
24-26: Fair knowledge and understanding of the topics; Good analytical and synthetic skills with arguments expressed in a rigorous manner but with language that is not always appropriate/technical.
27-29: Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of the topics; considerable capacity for analysis and synthesis. Good autonomy of judgement. Arguments presented in a rigorous manner and with appropriate/technical language
30-30L: Excellent level of knowledge and thorough understanding of topics. Excellent analytical and synthetic skills and independent judgement. Arguments expressed in an original manner and with appropriate technical language.
NICOLA DIMITRI
Programma
I. Aspetti istituzionali del procurement;
II. Aspetti strategici del procurement;
III. Aspetti sostenibili del procurement.
Programma:
Centralizzazione degli acquisti: i compromessi;
Procedure di aggiudicazione;
Regole di punteggio negli appalti;
Innovazione e appalti.
Program
I. Institutional aspects of procurement;
II. Strategic aspects of procurement;
III. Sustainable aspects of procurement.
Program:
Centralizing procurement: the trade-offs;
Award Procedures;
Scoring rules in procurement;
Innovation and procurement.
Bibliografia
Sul sito di facoltà, dopo di ogni lezione, saranno messe a disposizione le slide proiettate in aula.
Bibliography
After each lecture, the pertinent slides will be added on the faculty website.
Regolamento Esame
L'esame si baserà su domande aperte e di contenuto, volte a evidenziare la conoscenza acquisita, nonché la capacità di concettualizzazione e ragionamento dello studente.
Ai fini della valutazione, si utilizzerà lo schema che segue:
Non idoneo: importanti carenze e/o inaccuratezze nella conoscenza e comprensione degli argomenti; limitate capacità di analisi e sintesi, frequenti generalizzazioni e limitate capacità critiche e di giudizio, gli argomenti sono esposti in modo non coerente e con linguaggio inappropriato;
18-20: conoscenza e comprensione degli argomenti appena sufficiente con possibili generalizzazioni e imperfezioni; capacità di analisi sintesi e autonomia di giudizio sufficienti, gli argomenti sono esposti in modo frequentemente poco coerente e con un linguaggio poco appropriato/tecnico;
21-23: Conoscenza e comprensione degli argomenti routinaria; Capacità di analisi e sintesi corrette con argomentazione logica sufficientemente coerente e linguaggio appropriato/tecnico
24-26: Discreta conoscenza e comprensione degli argomenti; buone capacità di analisi e sintesi con argomentazioni espresse in modo rigoroso ma con un linguaggio non sempre appropriato/tecnico.
27-29: Conoscenza e comprensione degli argomenti completa; notevoli capacità di analisi e sintesi. Buona autonomia di giudizio. Argomenti esposti in modo rigoroso e con linguaggio appropriato/tecnico
30-30L: Ottimo livello di conoscenza e comprensione approfondita degli argomenti. Ottime capacità di analisi, di sintesi e di autonomia di giudizio. Argomentazioni espresse in modo originale e con linguaggio tecnico appropriato.
Exam Rules
The examination will be based on open questions and content questions designed to highlight the knowledge acquired as well as the student's ability to conceptualise and reason.
For assessment purposes, the following scheme will be used:
Unsuitable: major deficiencies and/or inaccuracies in the knowledge and understanding of the topics; limited capacity for analysis and synthesis, frequent generalisations and limited critical and judgmental skills, the topics are set out inconsistently and with inappropriate language;
18-20: barely sufficient knowledge and understanding of the topics with possible generalisations and imperfections; sufficient capacity for analysis synthesis and autonomy of judgement, the topics are frequently exposed in an incoherent way and with inappropriate/technical language;
21-23: Routine knowledge and understanding of topics; ability to analyse and synthesise correctly with sufficiently coherent logical argumentation and appropriate/technical language
24-26: Fair knowledge and understanding of the topics; Good analytical and synthetic skills with arguments expressed in a rigorous manner but with language that is not always appropriate/technical.
27-29: Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of the topics; considerable capacity for analysis and synthesis. Good autonomy of judgement. Arguments presented in a rigorous manner and with appropriate/technical language
30-30L: Excellent level of knowledge and thorough understanding of topics. Excellent analytical and synthetic skills and independent judgement. Arguments expressed in an original manner and with appropriate technical language.
Updated A.Y. 2021-2022
Università di Roma Tor Vergata - Facoltà di Economia
Anno Accademico 2020-2021
Master Sc. in Business Administration
Economics of Procurement
Coordinatore del MODULO:
Prof. Gustavo Piga e-mail: gustavo.piga@uniroma2.it tel.: 06/7259-5701
COLLABORATORI DEL MODULO:
Prof. Alessio D'Amato (6 ore)
Prof. Nicola Dimitri (10 ore)
Prof. Gustavo Piga (20 ore)
https://zoom.us/my/aulapme
Il programma
Il sourcing e l'approvvigionamento stanno diventando una funzione strategica chiave delle moderne organizzazioni economiche. Queste lezioni hanno lo scopo di supportare lo studente con gli strumenti di base dell'approvvigionamento.
Gli argomenti:
1) Contratti di sourcing e appalti competitivi;
2) Corruzione ed etica nel sourcing;
3) Centralizzazione degli acquisti: i compromessi;
4) Qualità e appalti;
5) Procedure di aggiudicazione;
6) Strategie di approvvigionamento;
7) PMI e appalti;
8) Acquisti verdi e sostenibili,
9) Regole di punteggio negli appalti;
10) Innovazione e appalti.
Il materiale:
L'insegnante farà riferimento allo studente, entro la fine di ogni settimana, alla biblioteca dove troverà il materiale rilevante sulla base dei seguenti libri di testo:
1) Handbook of Procurement, a cura di Nicola Dimitri, Gustavo Piga e Giancarlo Spagnolo (da acquistare con sconto) Cambridge University Press 2) Dispense.
2) Jean Tirole e Stéphane Saussier http://www.cae-eco.fr/IMG/pdf/cae-note022-env2.pdf
Regole dell'esame: La presenza in classe è essenziale e controllata con le firme. Gli studenti con almeno 30 ore di presenza affronteranno solo un esame orale con il Prof. Piga.
Gli studenti con meno di 30 ore di presenza affronteranno anche un esame scritto e, se superato, un esame orale.
Office Hours, stanza del Prof. Piga (3° piano, Edificio B): su appuntamento via e-mail.
Lezione 1, Prof. Gustavo Piga, lunedì 13 settembre 2021, 9-11 AM
Lezione 2, Prof. Gustavo Piga, martedì 14 settembre 2021, 9-11
Lezione 3, Prof. Gustavo Piga, mercoledì 15 settembre 2021, 9-11
Lezione 4, Prof. Gustavo Piga, lunedì 20 settembre 2021, 9-11
Lezione 5, Prof. Alessio D'Amato, martedì 21 settembre 2021, 9-11
Lezione 6, Prof. Gustavo Piga, mercoledì 22 settembre 2021, 9-11
Lezione 10, Prof. Gustavo Piga, mercoledì 4 ottobre 2021, 9-11
Lezione 13, Prof. Alessio D'Amato, lunedì 11 ottobre 2021, 9-11
Lezione 14, Prof. Alessio D'Amato, martedì 12 ottobre 2021, 9-11
Lezione 15, Prof. Gustavo Piga, mercoledì 13 ottobre 2021, 9-11
Lezione 16, Prof. Gustavo Piga, lunedì 17 ottobre 2021, 9-11
Lezione 17, Prof. Gustavo Piga, martedì 18 ottobre 2021, 9-11
Lezione 18, Prof. Gustavo Piga, mercoledì 19 ottobre 2021, 9-11
Il Prof. Piga tratterà i seguenti argomenti:
Definizioni e benchmarking delle pratiche di approvvigionamento.
Concorrenza e qualità negli appalti: Sostituti o Complementi? Riassunto.
Etica negli appalti. Definizione di corruzione. Modalità di corruzione negli appalti. Corruzione, concorrenza e collusione. Etica negli appalti. Il ruolo della trasparenza. Il ruolo delle verifiche e dei controlli. E-procurement e corruzione. La sfida dell'e-proc e della centralizzazione o le sfide dell'e-proc e della centralizzazione? Modelli di e-procurement.
Appalti e piccole imprese.
Centralizzazione degli acquisti in organizzazioni complesse. Benchmarking tra le amministrazioni pubbliche. Possibili sistemi di governance. Impatto della centralizzazione. La questione delle competenze.
Il Prof. Alessio D'Amato tratterà i seguenti argomenti della letteratura sugli acquisti sostenibili (e specificamente verdi) e del dibattito pubblico, relativi allo sviluppo e all'implementazione del Green Public Procurement (GPP) come strumento di politica ambientale:
- Un'introduzione all'economia dello sviluppo sostenibile e ai problemi ambientali
- GPP: un'introduzione
- Il GPP nella vita reale: esempi di implementazione.
- Il GPP è uno strumento efficiente di politica ambientale?
- Efficacia dei costi
- Efficacia ambientale
- Incentivi all'eco-innovazione
- Come si può migliorare il GPP?
- Progettazione del GPP e prestazioni economiche
- Progettazione e applicazione del GPP
Lezioni 7, 8, 9, 11 e 12 Prof. Nicola Dimitri, lunedì 27 settembre, martedì 28 settembre, mercoledì 29 settembre, 9-11, martedì 5 ottobre 9-11 (on line) e mercoledì 6 ottobre 9-11 (on line),
Centralizzazione degli appalti: i compromessi;
Procedure di aggiudicazione.
- Gara d'appalto competitiva
- Negoziazione
Strategie di aggiudicazione degli appalti
- Contratti a prezzo fisso
- Contratti a tariffa maggiorata
- Contratti di incentivazione
Design degli appalti competitivi:
- La maledizione del vincitore, la maledizione del compratore
- Informazioni e scelta delle aste
Lotti e (Un)Bundling
- Numero di lotti: (Un)Bundling, partecipazione e concorrenza
- Offerta a pacchetto come progettazione endogena del lotto
La scelta dei criteri di aggiudicazione: LP vs MEAT
- Ponderazione del prezzo e della qualità
- Introduzione alle regole di punteggio
- Applicazione delle regole di punteggio negli appalti:
- Manipolabilità e collusione
Un breve profilo degli insegnanti:
Nicola Dimitri:
Nicola Dimitri è professore di economia all'Università di Siena (Italia), Research Fellow e Innovation Procurement Chair alla Maastricht School of Management, docente presso l'Istituto di Studi Avanzati (IMT) di Lucca (Italia) e Life Member del Clare Hall College (Cambridge-UK). In precedenza è stato Vice Rettore dell'Università di Siena e Capo del Dipartimento di Economia. È stato Fullbright Student, Chevening Scholar, NATO-CNR e Fernand Braudel Fellow (EUI). Dal 2003 al 2008 ha collaborato come consulente economico con l'Ufficio Studi della Consip, l'Agenzia italiana per gli appalti pubblici. I suoi interessi di ricerca includono la teoria dei giochi e delle decisioni, l'economia comportamentale e cognitiva, gli appalti, l'economia sanitaria e farmaceutica, l'innovazione e gli incentivi. È uno dei curatori e degli autori del "Handbook of Procurement (Cambridge University Press, 2006)" e di altri articoli e rapporti sul procurement.
Alessio D'Amato:
Alessio D'Amato è professore associato in Politica Economica, Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza, Università di Roma "Tor Vergata". I suoi principali campi di competenza sono: i driver dei comportamenti ambientali; la regolamentazione ambientale; l'eco-innovazione. Ha conseguito il dottorato di ricerca in Economia presso l'Università di Roma "Tor Vergata", dove insegna Green Finance ed Economia Pubblica. E' stato ed è coinvolto in progetti nazionali e internazionali, ed è co-autore di diversi working paper, capitoli di libri e articoli pubblicati su riviste internazionali peer reviewed (tra cui Ecological Economics, Energy Economics, Environmental and Resource Economics, Energy Journal, Journal of Regulatory Economics e Resource and Energy Economics).
Gustavo Piga:
Gustavo Piga, Ph. D. in Economics alla Columbia University, è professore ordinario di Economia all'Università di Roma Tor Vergata, dove presiede il Master in Procurement Management. È co-editore dell'Handbook of Procurement, edito dalla Cambridge University Press. È stato consulente in materia di appalti e membro di diversi gruppi di esperti in materia di appalti. Ha presieduto l'Agenzia italiana per gli acquisti di beni e servizi, Consip Ltd., tra il 2002 e il 2005. È anche il co-editore di The European Journal of Public Procurement Markets e un editorialista per diversi giornali. Vedere gustavopiga.eu per maggiori dettagli.
Updated A.Y. 2021-2022
University of Rome Tor Vergata – Faculty of Economics
Academic Year 2020-2021
Master of Sciences in Business Administration
Economics of Procurement
CLASSROOM
MODULE’s coordinator:
Prof. Gustavo Piga e-mail: gustavo.piga@uniroma2.it tel.: 06/7259-5701
CONTRIBUTORS TO THE MODULE:
Prof. Alessio D’Amato (6 hours)
Prof. Nicola Dimitri (10 hours)
Prof. Gustavo Piga (20 hours)
The Program
Sourcing and procurement are becoming a key strategic function of modern economic organizations. These Lectures are meant to support the student with basic procurement tools.
The topics:
1) Contracts for sourcing and competitive procurement;
2) Corruption and ethics in sourcing;
3) Centralizing procurement: the trade-offs;
4) Quality and procurement;
5) Award Procedures;
6) Contracting Strategies;
7) SMEs and Procurement;
8) Green and Sustainable Procurement,
9) Scoring rules in procurement;
10) Innovation and procurement.
The Material:
The teacher will refer the student, by the end of each week, to the library where she/he will find relevant material on the basis of the following textbooks:
- Handbook of Procurement, edited by Nicola Dimitri, Gustavo Piga and Giancarlo Spagnolo (to be purchased at discount) Cambridge University Press 2) Handouts.
- Jean Tirole and Stéphane Saussier http://www.cae-eco.fr/IMG/pdf/cae-note022-env2.pdf
Exam rules: Presence in class is essential and monitored with signatures. Students with 30 hours presence at least will only face an oral exam with Prof. Piga.
Students with less than 30 hours presence will also pass a written exam and, if passed, an oral exam.
Office Hours, room of Prof. Piga (3rd floor, Building B): via appointment via e-mail.
Lesson 1, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Monday, September 13th, 2021, 9-11 AM
Lesson 2, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Tuesday, September 14th, 2021, 9-11 AM
Lesson 3, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Wednesday, September 15th, 2021, 9-11 AM
Lesson 4, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Monday, September 20th, 2021, 9-11 AM
Lesson 5, Prof. Alessio D’Amato, Tuesday, September 21st, 2021, 9-11 AM
Lesson 6, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021, 9-11 AM
Lesson 10, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Wednesday, October 4th, 2021, 9-11 AM
Lesson 13, Prof. Alessio D’Amato, Monday, October 11th, 2021, 9-11 AM
Lesson 14, Prof. Alessio D’Amato, Tuesday, October 12th, 2021, 9-11 AM
Lesson 15, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Wednesday, October 13th, 2021, 9-11 AM
Lesson 16, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Monday, October 17th, 2021, 9-11 AM
Lesson 17, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Tuesday, October 18th, 2021, 9-11 AM
Lesson 18, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Wednesday, October 19th, 2021, 9-11 AM
Prof. Piga will cover the following topics:
Definitions and benchmarking of procurement practices.
Competition and Quality in Procurement: Substitutes or Complements? Summing-up.
Ethics in procurement. Definition of corruption. Modalities of corruption in procurement. Corruption, competition and collusion. Ethics in Procurement. The role of transparency. The role of checks and controls. E-procurement and corruption. The Challenge of e-proc and Centralization or the e-proc and Centralization challenges? Models of E-procurement.
Procurement and small firms.
Centralization of procurement in complex organizations. Benchmarking across public administrations. Possible systems of governance. Impact of centralization. The issue of competences.
Prof. Alessio D’Amato will cover the following topics in the sustainable (and specifically green) procurement literature and public debate, related to the development and implementation of Green Public Procurement (GPP) as an environmental policy tool:
- An introduction to the economics of sustainable development and environmental problems
- GPP: an introduction
- GPP in real life: implementation examples.
- Is GPP an efficient environmental policy tool?
- Cost effectiveness
- Environmental effectiveness
- Incentives to eco-innovation
- How can GPP be improved?
- GPP design and economic performances
- GPP design and enforcement
Lessons 7, 8, 9, 11 and 12 Prof. Nicola Dimitri, Monday, September 27th, Tuesday, September 28th, Wednesday, September 29th, 9-11 AM, Tuesday October 5th 9-11 (on line) and Wednesday, October 6th, 9-11 (on line),
Centralizing procurement: the trade-offs;
Award procedures.
- Competitive Tendering
- Negotiation
Procurement Contracting Strategies
- Fixed Price Contracts
- Cost plus fee contracts
- Incentive contracts
Competitive Procurement Design:
- Winner’s Curse, Buyer’s Curse
- Information and the Choice of Auctions
Lots and (Un)Bundling
- Number of Lots: (Un)Bundling, Participation and Competition
- Package Bidding as Endogenous Lot Design
The choice of the awarding criteria: LP vs MEAT
- Weighting price and quality
- Introduction to scoring rules
- Application of scoring rules in procurement:
- Manipulability and collusion
A brief profile of the teachers:
Nicola Dimitri:
Nicola Dimitri is Professor of Economics at the University of Siena (Italy) Research Fellow and Innovation Procurement Chair at Maastricht School of Management, Lecturer at the Institute for Advanced Studies (IMT) Lucca (Italy) and Life Member of Clare Hall College (Cambridge-UK). He was formerly Deputy Rector of the University of Siena and Head of the Economics Department. He has been Fullbright Student, Chevening Scholar, NATO-CNR and Fernand Braudel Fellow (EUI). From 2003 until 2008 he collaborated as Economic consultant with the Research Office of Consip, the Italian Procurement Agency for the public sector. His research interests include game and decision theory, behavioral and cognitive economics, procurement, health and pharmaceutical economics, innovation and incentives. He is one of the editors and of the authors of the “Handbook of Procurement (Cambridge University Press, 2006)” as well as of other articles and reports on procurement.
Alessio D’Amato:
Alessio D’Amato is Associate Professor in Economic Policy, Department of Economics and Finance, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”. His main fields of expertise are: drivers of environmental behaviours; environmental regulation; eco-innovation. He got his PhD in Economics at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, where he teaches Green Finance and Public Economics. He has been and is involved in national and international projects, and he is co-author of several working papers, book chapters and papers published on international peer reviewed journals (including Ecological Economics, Energy Economics, Environmental and Resource Economics, Energy Journal, Journal of Regulatory Economics and Resource and Energy Economics).
Gustavo Piga:
Gustavo Piga, Ph. D. in Economics at Columbia University, is Full Professor of Economics at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, where he chairs the Master in Procurement Management. He is the co-editor of the Handbook of Procurement, edited by Cambridge University Press. He has been a procurement consultant and a member of several Procurement Expert Groups. He has chaired the Italian Procurement Agency for Goods and Services, Consip Ltd., between 2002 and 2005. He is also the co-editor of The European Journal of Public Procurement Markets and a columnist for several newspapers. See gustavopiga.eu for more details.
Updated A.Y. 2020-2021
Lezioni online su https://zoom.us/my/aulap1
University of Rome Tor Vergata – Faculty of Economics
Academic Year 2020-2021
Master of Sciences in Business Administration
Economics of Procurement
CLASSROOM
MODULE’s coordinator:
Prof. Gustavo Piga e-mail: gustavo.piga@uniroma2.it tel.: 06/7259-5701
CONTRIBUTORS TO THE MODULE:
Prof. Alessio D’Amato (6 hours)
Dott. Adriano Di Domenicantonio (6 hours)
Prof. Nicola Dimitri (6 hours)
Prof. Gustavo Piga (18 hours)
The Program
Sourcing and procurement are becoming a key strategic function of modern economic organizations. These Lectures are meant to support the student with basic procurement tools.
The topics:
1) Contracts for sourcing and competitive procurement;
2) Corruption and ethics in sourcing;
3) Centralizing procurement: the trade-offs;
4) Quality and procurement;
5) Award Procedures;
6) Contracting Strategies;
7) SMEs and Procurement;
8) Green and Sustainable Procurement,
9) Scoring rules in procurement;
10) Innovation and procurement.
The Material:
The teacher will refer the student, by the end of each week, to the library where she/he will find relevant material on the basis of the following textbooks:
- Handbook of Procurement, edited by Nicola Dimitri, Gustavo Piga and Giancarlo Spagnolo (to be purchased at discount) Cambridge University Press 2) Handouts.
- Jean Tirole and Stéphane Saussier http://www.cae-eco.fr/IMG/pdf/cae-note022-env2.pdf
Exam rules: Presence in class is essential and monitored with signatures. Students with 30 hours presence at least will only face an oral exam with Prof. Piga.
Students with less than 30 hours presence will also pass a written exam and, if passed, an oral exam.
Office Hours, room of Prof. Piga (3rd floor, Building B): via appointment via e-mail.
Lesson 1, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Monday, September 14th, 2020, 9-11 AM
Lesson 2, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Tuesday, September 15th, 2020, 9-11 AM
Lesson 3, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Wednesday, September 16th, 2020, 9-11 AM
Lesson 4, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Monday, September 21st, 2020, 9-11 AM
Lesson 5, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Tuesday, September 22nd, 2019, 9-11 AM
Lesson 6, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Wednesday, September 23rd, 2020, 9-11 AM
Lesson 10, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Monday, October 5th, 2020, 9-11 AM
Lesson 11, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Tuesday, October 6th, 2020, 9-11 AM
Lesson 12, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Wednesday, October 7th, 2020, 9-11 AM
Lesson 13, Prof. Alessio D’Amato; Monday, October 12nd, 2020, 9-11 AM
Lesson 14, Prof. Alessio D’Amato; Tuesday, October 13rd, 2020, 9-11 AM
Lesson 15, Prof. Alessio D’Amato, Wednesday, October 14h, 2020, 9-11 AM
Prof. Piga will cover the following topics:
Definitions and benchmarking of procurement practices.
Competition and Quality in Procurement: Substitutes or Complements? Summing-up.
Ethics in procurement. Definition of corruption. Modalities of corruption in procurement. Corruption, competition and collusion. Ethics in Procurement. The role of transparency. The role of checks and controls. E-procurement and corruption. The Challenge of e-proc and Centralization or the e-proc and Centralization challenges? Models of E-procurement.
Procurement and small firms.
Centralization of procurement in complex organizations. Benchmarking across public administrations. Possible systems of governance. Impact of centralization. The issue of competences.
Prof. Alessio D’Amato will cover the following topics in the sustainable (and specifically green) procurement literature and public debate, related to the development and implementation of Green Public Procurement (GPP) as an environmental policy tool:
- An introduction to the economics of sustainable development and environmental problems
- GPP: an introduction
- GPP in real life: implementation examples.
- Is GPP an efficient environmental policy tool?
- Cost effectiveness
- Environmental effectiveness
- Incentives to eco-innovation
- How can GPP be improved?
- GPP design and economic performances
- GPP design and enforcement
Lessons 7, 8 and 9, Prof. Nicola Dimitri, Monday, September 28th, Tuesday, September 29th, Wednesday, September 30th, 9-11 AM
Centralizing procurement: the trade-offs;
Award procedures.
- Competitive Tendering
- Negotiation
Procurement Contracting Strategies
- Fixed Price Contracts
- Cost plus fee contracts
- Incentive contracts
Competitive Procurement Design:
- Winner’s Curse, Buyer’s Curse
- Information and the Choice of Auctions
Lots and (Un)Bundling
- Number of Lots: (Un)Bundling, Participation and Competition
- Package Bidding as Endogenous Lot Design
Lessons 17 and 18, Dr. Adriano Di Domenicantonio
Monday, October 19th, 2020, 3-6 PM Tuesday October 20th , 2020, 3-6 PM:
Simulating an awarding procedure from Drafting the tender notice to awarding the contract:
- Procedure and contractual choice.
- Participation and qualitative selection criteria
- Service Level Agreements, Key Performance Indicators and penalties (deductions)
- Contract award criteria and award procedure:
- The choice of the the awarding criteria: LP vs MEAT
- Weighting price and quality
- Introduction to scoring rules
- Application of scoring rules in procurement:
- Manipulability and collusion
A brief profile of the teachers:
Nicola Dimitri:
Nicola Dimitri is Professor of Economics at the University of Siena (Italy) Research Fellow and Innovation Procurement Chair at Maastricht School of Management, Lecturer at the Institute for Advanced Studies (IMT) Lucca (Italy) and Life Member of Clare Hall College (Cambridge-UK). He was formerly Deputy Rector of the University of Siena and Head of the Economics Department. He has been Fullbright Student, Chevening Scholar, NATO-CNR and Fernand Braudel Fellow (EUI). From 2003 until 2008 he collaborated as Economic consultant with the Research Office of Consip, the Italian Procurement Agency for the public sector. His research interests include game and decision theory, behavioral and cognitive economics, procurement, health and pharmaceutical economics, innovation and incentives. He is one of the editors and of the authors of the “Handbook of Procurement (Cambridge University Press, 2006)” as well as of other articles and reports on procurement.
Adriano Di Domenicantonio:
Adriano Di Domenicantonio is a Buyer for a big public utility company in the transportation sector, dealing with technical purchasing. - and has been a procurement consultant at "Advanced Procurement" a consulting, professional training and research firm. As consultant he has worked in projects for the International Fund of Agricultural Development (IFAD), the Region of Lazio, several public utilities companies among which ACEA Ltd., ENI Ltd and Poste Italiane Ltd. He graduated in Economics and he holds a Master in "Procurement Management" from University of Rome “Tor Vergata”.
Alessio D’Amato:
Alessio D’Amato is Associate Professor in Economic Policy, Department of Economics and Finance, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”. His main fields of expertise are: drivers of environmental behaviours; environmental regulation; eco-innovation. He got his PhD in Economics at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, where he teaches Green Finance and Public Economics. He has been and is involved in national and international projects, and he is co-author of several working papers, book chapters and papers published on international peer reviewed journals (including Ecological Economics, Energy Economics, Environmental and Resource Economics, Energy Journal, Journal of Regulatory Economics and Resource and Energy Economics).
Gustavo Piga:
Gustavo Piga, Ph. D. in Economics at Columbia University, is Full Professor of Economics at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, where he chairs the Master in Procurement Management. He is the co-editor of the Handbook of Procurement, edited by Cambridge University Press. He has been a procurement consultant and a member of several Procurement Expert Groups. He has chaired the Italian Procurement Agency for Goods and Services, Consip Ltd., between 2002 and 2005. He is also the co-editor of The European Journal of Public Procurement Markets and a columnist for several newspapers. See www.gustavopiga.it for more details.
Updated A.Y. 2020-2021
Online lectures at https://zoom.us/my/aulap1
University of Rome Tor Vergata – Faculty of Economics
Academic Year 2020-2021
Master of Sciences in Business Administration
Economics of Procurement
CLASSROOM
MODULE’s coordinator:
Prof. Gustavo Piga e-mail: gustavo.piga@uniroma2.it tel.: 06/7259-5701
CONTRIBUTORS TO THE MODULE:
Prof. Alessio D’Amato (6 hours)
Dott. Adriano Di Domenicantonio (6 hours)
Prof. Nicola Dimitri (6 hours)
Prof. Gustavo Piga (18 hours)
The Program
Sourcing and procurement are becoming a key strategic function of modern economic organizations. These Lectures are meant to support the student with basic procurement tools.
The topics:
1) Contracts for sourcing and competitive procurement;
2) Corruption and ethics in sourcing;
3) Centralizing procurement: the trade-offs;
4) Quality and procurement;
5) Award Procedures;
6) Contracting Strategies;
7) SMEs and Procurement;
8) Green and Sustainable Procurement,
9) Scoring rules in procurement;
10) Innovation and procurement.
The Material:
The teacher will refer the student, by the end of each week, to the library where she/he will find relevant material on the basis of the following textbooks:
- Handbook of Procurement, edited by Nicola Dimitri, Gustavo Piga and Giancarlo Spagnolo (to be purchased at discount) Cambridge University Press 2) Handouts.
- Jean Tirole and Stéphane Saussier http://www.cae-eco.fr/IMG/pdf/cae-note022-env2.pdf
Exam rules: Presence in class is essential and monitored with signatures. Students with 30 hours presence at least will only face an oral exam with Prof. Piga.
Students with less than 30 hours presence will also pass a written exam and, if passed, an oral exam.
Office Hours, room of Prof. Piga (3rd floor, Building B): via appointment via e-mail.
Lesson 1, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Monday, September 14th, 2020, 9-11 AM
Lesson 2, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Tuesday, September 15th, 2020, 9-11 AM
Lesson 3, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Wednesday, September 16th, 2020, 9-11 AM
Lesson 4, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Monday, September 21st, 2020, 9-11 AM
Lesson 5, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Tuesday, September 22nd, 2019, 9-11 AM
Lesson 6, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Wednesday, September 23rd, 2020, 9-11 AM
Lesson 10, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Monday, October 5th, 2020, 9-11 AM
Lesson 11, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Tuesday, October 6th, 2020, 9-11 AM
Lesson 12, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Wednesday, October 7th, 2020, 9-11 AM
Lesson 13, Prof. Alessio D’Amato; Monday, October 12nd, 2020, 9-11 AM
Lesson 14, Prof. Alessio D’Amato; Tuesday, October 13rd, 2020, 9-11 AM
Lesson 15, Prof. Alessio D’Amato, Wednesday, October 14h, 2020, 9-11 AM
Prof. Piga will cover the following topics:
Definitions and benchmarking of procurement practices.
Competition and Quality in Procurement: Substitutes or Complements? Summing-up.
Ethics in procurement. Definition of corruption. Modalities of corruption in procurement. Corruption, competition and collusion. Ethics in Procurement. The role of transparency. The role of checks and controls. E-procurement and corruption. The Challenge of e-proc and Centralization or the e-proc and Centralization challenges? Models of E-procurement.
Procurement and small firms.
Centralization of procurement in complex organizations. Benchmarking across public administrations. Possible systems of governance. Impact of centralization. The issue of competences.
Prof. Alessio D’Amato will cover the following topics in the sustainable (and specifically green) procurement literature and public debate, related to the development and implementation of Green Public Procurement (GPP) as an environmental policy tool:
- An introduction to the economics of sustainable development and environmental problems
- GPP: an introduction
- GPP in real life: implementation examples.
- Is GPP an efficient environmental policy tool?
- Cost effectiveness
- Environmental effectiveness
- Incentives to eco-innovation
- How can GPP be improved?
- GPP design and economic performances
- GPP design and enforcement
Lessons 7, 8 and 9, Prof. Nicola Dimitri, Monday, September 28th, Tuesday, September 29th, Wednesday, September 30th, 9-11 AM
Centralizing procurement: the trade-offs;
Award procedures.
- Competitive Tendering
- Negotiation
Procurement Contracting Strategies
- Fixed Price Contracts
- Cost plus fee contracts
- Incentive contracts
Competitive Procurement Design:
- Winner’s Curse, Buyer’s Curse
- Information and the Choice of Auctions
Lots and (Un)Bundling
- Number of Lots: (Un)Bundling, Participation and Competition
- Package Bidding as Endogenous Lot Design
Lessons 17 and 18, Dr. Adriano Di Domenicantonio
Monday, October 19th, 2020, 3-6 PM Tuesday October 20th , 2020, 3-6 PM:
Simulating an awarding procedure from Drafting the tender notice to awarding the contract:
- Procedure and contractual choice.
- Participation and qualitative selection criteria
- Service Level Agreements, Key Performance Indicators and penalties (deductions)
- Contract award criteria and award procedure:
- The choice of the the awarding criteria: LP vs MEAT
- Weighting price and quality
- Introduction to scoring rules
- Application of scoring rules in procurement:
- Manipulability and collusion
A brief profile of the teachers:
Nicola Dimitri:
Nicola Dimitri is Professor of Economics at the University of Siena (Italy) Research Fellow and Innovation Procurement Chair at Maastricht School of Management, Lecturer at the Institute for Advanced Studies (IMT) Lucca (Italy) and Life Member of Clare Hall College (Cambridge-UK). He was formerly Deputy Rector of the University of Siena and Head of the Economics Department. He has been Fullbright Student, Chevening Scholar, NATO-CNR and Fernand Braudel Fellow (EUI). From 2003 until 2008 he collaborated as Economic consultant with the Research Office of Consip, the Italian Procurement Agency for the public sector. His research interests include game and decision theory, behavioral and cognitive economics, procurement, health and pharmaceutical economics, innovation and incentives. He is one of the editors and of the authors of the “Handbook of Procurement (Cambridge University Press, 2006)” as well as of other articles and reports on procurement.
Adriano Di Domenicantonio:
Adriano Di Domenicantonio is a Buyer for a big public utility company in the transportation sector, dealing with technical purchasing. - and has been a procurement consultant at "Advanced Procurement" a consulting, professional training and research firm. As consultant he has worked in projects for the International Fund of Agricultural Development (IFAD), the Region of Lazio, several public utilities companies among which ACEA Ltd., ENI Ltd and Poste Italiane Ltd. He graduated in Economics and he holds a Master in "Procurement Management" from University of Rome “Tor Vergata”.
Alessio D’Amato:
Alessio D’Amato is Associate Professor in Economic Policy, Department of Economics and Finance, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”. His main fields of expertise are: drivers of environmental behaviours; environmental regulation; eco-innovation. He got his PhD in Economics at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, where he teaches Green Finance and Public Economics. He has been and is involved in national and international projects, and he is co-author of several working papers, book chapters and papers published on international peer reviewed journals (including Ecological Economics, Energy Economics, Environmental and Resource Economics, Energy Journal, Journal of Regulatory Economics and Resource and Energy Economics).
Gustavo Piga:
Gustavo Piga, Ph. D. in Economics at Columbia University, is Full Professor of Economics at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, where he chairs the Master in Procurement Management. He is the co-editor of the Handbook of Procurement, edited by Cambridge University Press. He has been a procurement consultant and a member of several Procurement Expert Groups. He has chaired the Italian Procurement Agency for Goods and Services, Consip Ltd., between 2002 and 2005. He is also the co-editor of The European Journal of Public Procurement Markets and a columnist for several newspapers. See www.gustavopiga.it for more details.
Updated A.Y. 2019-2020
The Program
Sourcing and procurement are becoming a key strategic function of modern economic organizations. These Lectures are meant to support the student with basic procurement tools.
The topics:
1) Contracts for sourcing and competitive procurement;
2) Corruption and ethics in sourcing;
3) Centralizing procurement: the trade-offs;
4) Quality and procurement;
5) Award Procedures;
6) Contracting Strategies;
7) SMEs and Procurement;
8) Green and Sustainable Procurement,
9) Scoring rules in procurement;
10) Innovation and procurement.
The Material:
The teacher will refer the student, by the end of each week, to the library where she/he will find relevant material on the basis of the following textbooks:
- Handbook of Procurement, edited by Nicola Dimitri, Gustavo Piga and Giancarlo Spagnolo (to be purchased at discount) Cambridge University Press 2) Handouts.
- Jean Tirole and Stéphane Saussier http://www.cae-eco.fr/IMG/pdf/cae-note022-env2.pdf
Exam rules: Presence in class is essential and monitored with signatures. Students with 30 hours presence at least will only face an oral exam with Prof. Piga.
Students with less than 30 hours presence will also pass a written exam and, if passed, an oral exam.
Office Hours, room of Prof. Piga (3rd floor, Building B): via appointment via e-mail.
Lesson 1, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Monday, September 14th, 2020, 9-11 AM
Lesson 2, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Tuesday, September 15th, 2020, 9-11 AM
Lesson 3, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Wednesday, September 16th, 2020, 9-11 AM
Lesson 4, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Monday, September 21st, 2020, 9-11 AM
Lesson 5, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Tuesday, September 22nd, 2019, 9-11 AM
Lesson 6, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Wednesday, September 23rd, 2020, 9-11 AM
Lesson 10, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Monday, October 5th, 2020, 9-11 AM
Lesson 11, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Tuesday, October 6th, 2020, 9-11 AM
Lesson 12, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Wednesday, October 7th, 2020, 9-11 AM
Lesson 13, Prof. Alessio D’Amato; Monday, October 12nd, 2020, 9-11 AM
Lesson 14, Prof. Alessio D’Amato; Tuesday, October 13rd, 2020, 9-11 AM
Lesson 15, Prof. Alessio D’Amato, Wednesday, October 14h, 2020, 9-11 AM
Prof. Piga will cover the following topics:
Definitions and benchmarking of procurement practices.
Competition and Quality in Procurement: Substitutes or Complements? Summing-up.
Ethics in procurement. Definition of corruption. Modalities of corruption in procurement. Corruption, competition and collusion. Ethics in Procurement. The role of transparency. The role of checks and controls. E-procurement and corruption. The Challenge of e-proc and Centralization or the e-proc and Centralization challenges? Models of E-procurement.
Procurement and small firms.
Centralization of procurement in complex organizations. Benchmarking across public administrations. Possible systems of governance. Impact of centralization. The issue of competences.
Prof. Alessio D’Amato will cover the following topics in the sustainable (and specifically green) procurement literature and public debate, related to the development and implementation of Green Public Procurement (GPP) as an environmental policy tool:
- An introduction to the economics of sustainable development and environmental problems
- GPP: an introduction
- GPP in real life: implementation examples.
- Is GPP an efficient environmental policy tool?
- Cost effectiveness
- Environmental effectiveness
- Incentives to eco-innovation
- How can GPP be improved?
- GPP design and economic performances
- GPP design and enforcement
Lessons 7, 8 and 9, Prof. Nicola Dimitri, Monday, September 28th, Tuesday, September 29th, Wednesday, September 30th, 9-11 AM
Centralizing procurement: the trade-offs;
Award procedures.
- Competitive Tendering
- Negotiation
Procurement Contracting Strategies
- Fixed Price Contracts
- Cost plus fee contracts
- Incentive contracts
Competitive Procurement Design:
- Winner’s Curse, Buyer’s Curse
- Information and the Choice of Auctions
Lots and (Un)Bundling
- Number of Lots: (Un)Bundling, Participation and Competition
- Package Bidding as Endogenous Lot Design
Lessons 17 and 18, Dr. Adriano Di Domenicantonio
Monday, October 19th, 2020, 3-6 PM Tuesday October 20th , 2020, 3-6 PM:
Simulating an awarding procedure from Drafting the tender notice to awarding the contract:
- Procedure and contractual choice.
- Participation and qualitative selection criteria
- Service Level Agreements, Key Performance Indicators and penalties (deductions)
- Contract award criteria and award procedure:
- The choice of the the awarding criteria: LP vs MEAT
- Weighting price and quality
- Introduction to scoring rules
- Application of scoring rules in procurement:
- Manipulability and collusion
A brief profile of the teachers:
Nicola Dimitri:
Nicola Dimitri is Professor of Economics at the University of Siena (Italy) Research Fellow and Innovation Procurement Chair at Maastricht School of Management, Lecturer at the Institute for Advanced Studies (IMT) Lucca (Italy) and Life Member of Clare Hall College (Cambridge-UK). He was formerly Deputy Rector of the University of Siena and Head of the Economics Department. He has been Fullbright Student, Chevening Scholar, NATO-CNR and Fernand Braudel Fellow (EUI). From 2003 until 2008 he collaborated as Economic consultant with the Research Office of Consip, the Italian Procurement Agency for the public sector. His research interests include game and decision theory, behavioral and cognitive economics, procurement, health and pharmaceutical economics, innovation and incentives. He is one of the editors and of the authors of the “Handbook of Procurement (Cambridge University Press, 2006)” as well as of other articles and reports on procurement.
Adriano Di Domenicantonio:
Adriano Di Domenicantonio is a Buyer for a big public utility company in the transportation sector, dealing with technical purchasing. - and has been a procurement consultant at "Advanced Procurement" a consulting, professional training and research firm. As consultant he has worked in projects for the International Fund of Agricultural Development (IFAD), the Region of Lazio, several public utilities companies among which ACEA Ltd., ENI Ltd and Poste Italiane Ltd. He graduated in Economics and he holds a Master in "Procurement Management" from University of Rome “Tor Vergata”.
Alessio D’Amato:
Alessio D’Amato is Associate Professor in Economic Policy, Department of Economics and Finance, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”. His main fields of expertise are: drivers of environmental behaviours; environmental regulation; eco-innovation. He got his PhD in Economics at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, where he teaches Green Finance and Public Economics. He has been and is involved in national and international projects, and he is co-author of several working papers, book chapters and papers published on international peer reviewed journals (including Ecological Economics, Energy Economics, Environmental and Resource Economics, Energy Journal, Journal of Regulatory Economics and Resource and Energy Economics).
Gustavo Piga:
Gustavo Piga, Ph. D. in Economics at Columbia University, is Full Professor of Economics at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, where he chairs the Master in Procurement Management. He is the co-editor of the Handbook of Procurement, edited by Cambridge University Press. He has been a procurement consultant and a member of several Procurement Expert Groups. He has chaired the Italian Procurement Agency for Goods and Services, Consip Ltd., between 2002 and 2005. He is also the co-editor of The European Journal of Public Procurement Markets and a columnist for several newspapers. See www.gustavopiga.it for more details.
Updated A.Y. 2019-2020
University of Rome Tor Vergata – Faculty of Economics
Academic Year 2019-2020
Master of Sciences in Business Administration
Economics of Procurement
CLASSROOM
MODULE’s coordinator:
Prof. Gustavo Piga e-mail: gustavo.piga@uniroma2.it tel.: 06/7259-5701
CONTRIBUTORS TO THE MODULE:
Prof. Nicola Dimitri (6 hours)
Prof. Gustavo Piga (18-20 hours)
Dott. Adriano Di Domenicantonio (6 hours)
Alessio D’Amato (6 hours)
The Program
Sourcing and procurement are becoming a key strategic function of modern economic organizations. These Lectures are meant to support the student with basic procurement tools.
The topics:
1) Contracts for sourcing and competitive procurement;
2) Corruption and ethics in sourcing;
3) Centralizing procurement: the trade-offs;
4) Sourcing in complex organizations;
5) Award Procedures;
6) Contracting Strategies;
7) SMEs and Procurement;
8) Auctions and scoring rules,
9) Scoring rules in procurement;
10) Innovation and procurement.
The Material:
The teacher will refer the student, by the end of each week, to the library where she/he will find relevant material on the basis of the following textbooks:
1) Handbook of Procurement, edited by Nicola Dimitri, Gustavo Piga and Giancarlo Spagnolo (to be purchased at discount) Cambridge University Press 2) Handouts.
2) Jean Tirole and Stéphane Saussier http://www.cae-eco.fr/IMG/pdf/cae-note022-env2.pdf
Exam rules: Presence in class is essential and monitored with signatures. Students with 30 hours presence at least will only face an oral exam with Prof. Piga.
Students with less than 30 hours presence will also pass a written exam and, if passed, an oral exam.
Office Hours, room of Prof. Piga (3rd floor, Building B): via appointment via e-mail.
Lesson 1, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Monday, November 4th, 2019, 9-11 AM
Lesson 2, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Tuesday, November 5th, 2019, 9-11 AM
Lesson 3, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Wednesday, November 6th, 2019, 9-11 AM
Lesson 4, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Monday, November 11th, 2019, 9-11 AM
Lesson 8, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Monday, November 18h, 2019, 9-11 AM
Lesson 9, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Tuesday, November 19th, 2019, 9-11 AM
Lesson 10, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Wednesday, November 20th, 2019, 9-11 AM
Lesson 11, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Monday, November 25th, 2019, 9-11 AM
Lesson 12, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Tuesday, November 26th, 2019, 9-11 AM
Lesson 13, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Wednesday, November 27th, 2019, 9-11 AM (if needed)
Lesson 14, Prof. Alessio D’Amato; Monday, December 2nd, 2019, 9-11 AM
Lesson 15, Prof. Alessio D’Amato; Tuesday, December 3rd, 2019, 9-11 AM
Lesson 16, Prof. Alessio D’Amato, Wednesday, December 4h, 2019, 9-11 AM
Competition and Quality in Procurement: Substitutes or Complements? Summing-up.
Ethics in procurement. Definition of corruption. Modalities of corruption in procurement. Corruption, competition and collusion.
Ethics in Procurement. The role of transparency. The role of checks and controls. E-procurement and corruption.
The Challenge of e-proc and Centralization or the e-proc and Centralization challenges? Models of E-procurement.
Procurement and small firms.
Centralization of procurement in complex organizations. Benchmarking across public administrations. Possible systems of governance. Impact of centralization. The issue of competences.
Prof. Alessio D’Amato will cover the following topics in the sustainable (and specifically green) procurement literature and public debate, related to the development and implementation of Green Public Procurement (GPP) as an environmental policy tool:
- An introduction to the economics of sustainable development and environmental problems
- GPP: an introduction
- GPP in real life: implementation examples.
- Is GPP an efficient environmental policy tool?
- Cost effectiveness
- Environmental effectiveness
- Incentives to eco-innovation
- How can GPP be improved?
- GPP design and economic performances
- GPP design and enforcement
Lessons 5, 6 and 7, Prof. Nicola Dimitri, Tuesday, November 12th, 9-11 AM and 12-2PM, Wednesday, November 13th, 9-11 AM
Centralizing procurement: the trade-offs;
Award procedures.
- Competitive Tendering
- Negotiation
Procurement Contracting Strategies
- Fixed Price Contracts
- Cost plus fee contracts
- Incentive contracts
Competitive Procurement Design:
- Winner’s Curse, Buyer’s Curse
- Information and the Choice of Auctions
Lots and (Un)Bundling
- Number of Lots: (Un)Bundling, Participation and Competition
- Package Bidding as Endogenous Lot Design
Lessons 17 and 18, Dr. Adriano Di Domenicantonio
Monday, December 9th, 3-6 PM Tuesday December 10th , 3-6 PM:
Simulating an awarding procedure from Drafting the tender notice to awarding the contract:
- Procedure and contractual choice.
- Participation and qualitative selection criteria
- Service Level Agreements, Key Performance Indicators and penalties (deductions)
- Contract award criteria and award procedure:
1. The choice of the the awarding criteria: LP vs MEAT
2. Weighting price and quality
3. Introduction to scoring rules
4. Application of scoring rules in procurement:
5. Manipulability and collusion
A brief profile of the teachers:
Nicola Dimitri:
Nicola Dimitri is Professor of Economics at the University of Siena (Italy) Research Fellow and Innovation Procurement Chair at Maastricht School of Management, Lecturer at the Institute for Advanced Studies (IMT) Lucca (Italy) and Life Member of Clare Hall College (Cambridge-UK). He was formerly Deputy Rector of the University of Siena and Head of the Economics Department. He has been Fullbright Student, Chevening Scholar, NATO-CNR and Fernand Braudel Fellow (EUI). From 2003 until 2008 he collaborated as Economic consultant with the Research Office of Consip, the Italian Procurement Agency for the public sector. His research interests include game and decision theory, behavioral and cognitive economics, procurement, health and pharmaceutical economics, innovation and incentives. He is one of the editors and of the authors of the “Handbook of Procurement (Cambridge University Press, 2006)” as well as of other articles and reports on procurement.
Adriano Di Domenicantonio:
Adriano Di Domenicantonio is a Buyer for a big public utility company in the transportation sector, dealing with technical purchasing. - and has been a procurement consultant at "Advanced Procurement" a consulting, professional training and research firm. As consultant he has worked in projects for the International Fund of Agricultural Development (IFAD), the Region of Lazio, several public utilities companies among which ACEA Ltd., ENI Ltd and Poste Italiane Ltd. He graduated in Economics and he holds a Master in "Procurement Management" from University of Rome “Tor Vergata”.
Alessio D’Amato:
Alessio D’Amato is Associate Professor in Economic Policy, Department of Economics and Finance, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”. His main fields of expertise are: drivers of environmental behaviours; environmental regulation; eco-innovation. He got his PhD in Economics at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, where he teaches Green Finance and Public Economics. He has been and is involved in national and international projects, and he is co-author of several working papers, book chapters and papers published on international peer reviewed journals (including Ecological Economics, Energy Economics, Environmental and Resource Economics, Energy Journal, Journal of Regulatory Economics and Resource and Energy Economics).
Gustavo Piga:
Gustavo Piga, Ph. D. in Economics at Columbia University, is Full Professor of Economics at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, where he chairs the Master in Procurement Management. He is the co-editor of the Handbook of Procurement, edited by Cambridge University Press. He has been a procurement consultant and a member of several Procurement Expert Groups. He has chaired the Italian Procurement Agency for Goods and Services, Consip Ltd., between 2002 and 2005. He is also the co-editor of The European Journal of Public Procurement Markets and a columnist for several newspapers. See www.gustavopiga.it for more details.
Updated A.Y. 2018-2019
University of Rome Tor Vergata – Faculty of Economics
Academic Year 2018-2019
Master of Sciences in Business Administration
Economics of Procurement
CLASSROOM
MODULE’s coordinator:
Prof. Gustavo Piga e-mail: gustavo.piga@uniroma2.it tel.: 06/7259-5701
CONTRIBUTORS TO THE MODULE:
Prof. Nicola Dimitri (6 hours)
Prof. Gustavo Piga (18 hours)
Dott. Adriano Di Domenicantonio (6 hours)
Francesco Decarolis (6 hours)
The Program
Sourcing and procurement are becoming a key strategic function of modern economic organizations. These Lectures are meant to support the student with basic procurement tools.
The topics:
1) Contracts for sourcing and competitive procurement;
2) Corruption and ethics in sourcing;
3) Centralizing procurement: the trade-offs;
4) Sourcing in complex organizations;
5) Award Procedures;
6) Contracting Strategies;
7) SMEs and Procurement;
8) Auctions and scoring rules,
9) Scoring rules in procurement;
10) Innovation and procurement.
The Material:
The teacher will refer the student, by the end of each week, to the library where she/he will find relevant material on the basis of the following textbooks:
1) Handbook of Procurement, edited by Nicola Dimitri, Gustavo Piga and Giancarlo Spagnolo (to be purchased at discount) Cambridge University Press 2) Handouts.
2) Jean Tirole and Stéphane Saussier http://www.cae-eco.fr/IMG/pdf/cae-note022-env2.pdf
Exam rules: Presence in class is essential and monitored with signatures. Students with 30 hours presence at least will only face an oral exam with Prof. Piga.
Students with less than 30 hours presence will also pass a written exam and, if passed, an oral exam.
Office Hours, room of Prof. Piga (3rd floor, Building B): via appointment via e-mail.
Lesson 1, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Monday, November 5th, 2018, 9-11 AM
Lesson 5, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Monday, November 12th, 2018, 9-11 AM
Lesson 6, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Tuesday, November 13th, 2018, 9-11 AM
Lesson 7, Prof. Francesco Decarolis, Wednesday, November 14th, 2018, 9-11 AM
Lesson 8, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Monday, November 19h, 2018, 9-11 AM
Lesson 9, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Tuesday, November 20th, 2018, 9-11 AM
Lesson 10, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Wednesday, November 21st, 2018, 9-11 AM
Lesson 11, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Monday, November 26th, 2018, 9-11 AM
Lesson 12, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Tuesday, November 27th, 2018, 9-1 AM
Lesson 13, Prof. Francesco Decarolis, Wednesday, November 28th, 2018, 9-11 AM
Lesson 14, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Monday, December 3rd, 2018, 9-11 AM
Lesson 15, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Tuesday, December 4th, 2018, 9-11 AM
Lesson 16, Prof. Francesco Decarolis, Wednesday, December 5th, 2018, 9-11 AM
Competition and Quality in Procurement: Substitutes or Complements? Summing-up.
Ethics in procurement. Definition of corruption. Modalities of corruption in procurement. Corruption, competition and collusion.
Ethics in Procurement. The role of transparency. The role of checks and controls. E-procurement and corruption.
The Challenge of e-proc and Centralization or the e-proc and Centralization challenges? Models of E-procurement.
Procurement and small firms.
Centralization of procurement in complex organizations. Benchmarking across public administrations. Possible systems of governance. Impact of centralization. The issue of competences.
Prof. Francesco Decarolis will cover three hot topics in the procurement literature and public debate:
- Set aside and Preference Programs: bid preferences and restriction of competition in procurement tenders allow firms from an identifiable group an advantage against unfavored firms. The goal of public authorities is to provide contract opportunities for small businesses or firms operated by members of groups designated as disadvantaged. While economic efficiency is expected to fall as a result of reduced competition, long-term government procurement costs may either increase or decrease depending on the response of favored and unfavored firms. We will review the most relevant contributions of economic literature to this topic.
- The role of Buyers’ Competence: Specialized skills are needed to undertake the procurement activity. Procurers must appropriately handle a multiplicity of complex tasks, including choosing the tender format, the award criteria, the tender specifications, and the contract design, even for rather simple acquisitions. I will present recent contributions to the economic and policy debate on the importance of improving the quality of a purchasing unit and paying more attention to the demand side of the procurement market.
- Public procurement of Innovation: economists consider market demand as one of the major drivers of technological change and innovation. Recently, scholars and policy makers started to suggest that public procurement, may have a specific and important role in this process. We will discuss recent analyses of innovative public procurement as a technology policy and investigate the impact of procurement on firms' innovative behavior.
Lessons 2, 3 and 4, Prof. Nicola Dimitri, Tuesday, November 6th, 9-11 AM and 12-2PM, Wednesday, November 7th, 9-11 AM
Centralizing procurement: the trade-offs;
Award procedures.
- Competitive Tendering
- Negotiation
Procurement Contracting Strategies
- Fixed Price Contracts
- Cost plus fee contracts
- Incentive contracts
Competitive Procurement Design:
- Winner’s Curse, Buyer’s Curse
- Information and the Choice of Auctions
Lots and (Un)Bundling
- Number of Lots: (Un)Bundling, Participation and Competition
- Package Bidding as Endogenous Lot Design
Lessons 17 and 18, Dr. Adriano Di Domenicantonio
Monday, December 10th, 3-6 PM Tuesday December 11th , 3-6 PM:
Simulating an awarding procedure from Drafting the tender notice to awarding the contract:
- Procedure and contractual choice.
- Participation and qualitative selection criteria
- Service Level Agreements, Key Performance Indicators and penalties (deductions)
- Contract award criteria and award procedure:
1. The choice of the the awarding criteria: LP vs MEAT
2. Weighting price and quality
3. Introduction to scoring rules
4. Application of scoring rules in procurement:
5. Manipulability and collusion
A brief profile of the teachers:
Nicola Dimitri:
Nicola Dimitri is Professor of Economics at the University of Siena (Italy) Research Fellow and Innovation Procurement Chair at Maastricht School of Management, Lecturer at the Institute for Advanced Studies (IMT) Lucca (Italy) and Life Member of Clare Hall College (Cambridge-UK). He was formerly Deputy Rector of the University of Siena and Head of the Economics Department. He has been Fullbright Student, Chevening Scholar, NATO-CNR and Fernand Braudel Fellow (EUI). From 2003 until 2008 he collaborated as Economic consultant with the Research Office of Consip, the Italian Procurement Agency for the public sector. His research interests include game and decision theory, behavioral and cognitive economics, procurement, health and pharmaceutical economics, innovation and incentives. He is one of the editors and of the authors of the “Handbook of Procurement (Cambridge University Press, 2006)” as well as of other articles and reports on procurement.
Adriano Di Domenicantonio:
Adriano Di Domenicantonio is a Buyer for a big public utility company in the transportation sector, dealing with technical purchasing. - and has been a procurement consultant at "Advanced Procurement" a consulting, professional training and research firm. As consultant he has worked in projects for the International Fund of Agricultural Development (IFAD), the Region of Lazio, several public utilities companies among which ACEA Ltd., ENI Ltd and Poste Italiane Ltd. He graduated in Economics and he holds a Master in "Procurement Management" from University of Rome “Tor Vergata”.
Francesco Decarolis:
Associate Professor, Università Bocconi - Department of Economics since 2017. Previously he held various permanent and visiting positions at EIEF-Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance; Boston University; Stanford University; University of Pennsylvania; University of Wisconsin Madison; Columbia University and University of Chicago. Member of the European Commission - DG Comp, Economic Advisory Group on Competition Policy (EAGCP). Coordinator of the Economics Faculty at the Italian National School of Administration. Research areas: Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics, Market Design, Health Economics. Education: BA in Economics cum laude from Università Bocconi in 2002 and PhD in Economics from University of Chicago in 2009.
Gustavo Piga:
Gustavo Piga, Ph. D. in Economics at Columbia University, is Full Professor of Economics at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, where he chairs the Master in Procurement Management. He is the co-editor of the Handbook of Procurement, edited by Cambridge University Press. He has been a procurement consultant and a member of several Procurement Expert Groups. He has chaired the Italian Procurement Agency for Goods and Services, Consip Ltd., between 2002 and 2005. He is also the co-editor of The European Journal of Public Procurement Markets and a columnist for several newspapers. See www.gustavopiga.it for more details.
Updated A.Y. 2018-2019
University of Rome Tor Vergata – Faculty of Economics
Academic Year 2017-2018
Master of Sciences in Business Administration
Economics of Procurement
CLASSROOM
MODULE’s coordinator:
Prof. Gustavo Piga e-mail: gustavo.piga@uniroma2.it tel.: 06/7259-5701
CONTRIBUTORS TO THE MODULE:
Prof. Nicola Dimitri (6 hours)
Prof. Gustavo Piga (18 hours)
Dott. Adriano Di Domenicantonio (6 hours)
Francesco Decarolis (6 hours)
The Program
Sourcing and procurement are becoming a key strategic function of modern economic organizations. These Lectures are meant to support the student with basic procurement tools.
The topics:
1) Contracts for sourcing and competitive procurement;
2) Corruption and ethics in sourcing;
3) Centralizing procurement: the trade-offs;
4) Sourcing in complex organizations;
5) Award Procedures;
6) Contracting Strategies;
7) SMEs and Procurement;
8) Auctions and scoring rules,
9) Scoring rules in procurement;
10) Innovation and procurement.
The Material:
The teacher will refer the student, by the end of each week, to the library where she/he will find relevant material on the basis of the following textbooks:
1) Handbook of Procurement, edited by Nicola Dimitri, Gustavo Piga and Giancarlo Spagnolo (to be purchased at discount) Cambridge University Press 2) Handouts.
2) Jean Tirole and Stéphane Saussier http://www.cae-eco.fr/IMG/pdf/cae-note022-env2.pdf
Exam rules: Presence in class is essential and monitored with signatures. Students with 30 hours presence at least will only face an oral exam with Prof. Piga.
Students with less than 30 hours presence will also pass a written exam and, if passed, an oral exam.
Office Hours, room of Prof. Piga (3rd floor, Building B): via appointment via e-mail.
Lesson 1, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Monday, November 5th, 2018, 9-11 AM
Lesson 5, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Monday, November 12th, 2018, 9-11 AM
Lesson 6, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Tuesday, November 13th, 2018, 9-11 AM
Lesson 7, Prof. Francesco Decarolis, Wednesday, November 14th, 2018, 9-11 AM
Lesson 8, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Monday, November 19h, 2018, 9-11 AM
Lesson 9, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Tuesday, November 20th, 2018, 9-11 AM
Lesson 10, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Wednesday, November 21st, 2018, 9-11 AM
Lesson 11, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Monday, November 26th, 2018, 9-11 AM
Lesson 12, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Tuesday, November 27th, 2018, 9-1 AM
Lesson 13, Prof. Francesco Decarolis, Wednesday, November 28th, 2018, 9-11 AM
Lesson 14, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Monday, December 3rd, 2018, 9-11 AM
Lesson 15, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Tuesday, December 4th, 2018, 9-11 AM
Lesson 16, Prof. Francesco Decarolis, Wednesday, December 5th, 2018, 9-11 AM
Competition and Quality in Procurement: Substitutes or Complements? Summing-up.
Ethics in procurement. Definition of corruption. Modalities of corruption in procurement. Corruption, competition and collusion.
Ethics in Procurement. The role of transparency. The role of checks and controls. E-procurement and corruption.
The Challenge of e-proc and Centralization or the e-proc and Centralization challenges? Models of E-procurement.
Procurement and small firms.
Centralization of procurement in complex organizations. Benchmarking across public administrations. Possible systems of governance. Impact of centralization. The issue of competences.
Prof. Francesco Decarolis will cover three hot topics in the procurement literature and public debate:
- Set aside and Preference Programs: bid preferences and restriction of competition in procurement tenders allow firms from an identifiable group an advantage against unfavored firms. The goal of public authorities is to provide contract opportunities for small businesses or firms operated by members of groups designated as disadvantaged. While economic efficiency is expected to fall as a result of reduced competition, long-term government procurement costs may either increase or decrease depending on the response of favored and unfavored firms. We will review the most relevant contributions of economic literature to this topic.
- The role of Buyers’ Competence: Specialized skills are needed to undertake the procurement activity. Procurers must appropriately handle a multiplicity of complex tasks, including choosing the tender format, the award criteria, the tender specifications, and the contract design, even for rather simple acquisitions. I will present recent contributions to the economic and policy debate on the importance of improving the quality of a purchasing unit and paying more attention to the demand side of the procurement market.
- Public procurement of Innovation: economists consider market demand as one of the major drivers of technological change and innovation. Recently, scholars and policy makers started to suggest that public procurement, may have a specific and important role in this process. We will discuss recent analyses of innovative public procurement as a technology policy and investigate the impact of procurement on firms' innovative behavior.
Lessons 2, 3 and 4, Prof. Nicola Dimitri, Tuesday, November 6th, 9-11 AM and 12-2PM, Wednesday, November 7th, 9-11 AM
Centralizing procurement: the trade-offs;
Award procedures.
- Competitive Tendering
- Negotiation
Procurement Contracting Strategies
- Fixed Price Contracts
- Cost plus fee contracts
- Incentive contracts
Competitive Procurement Design:
- Winner’s Curse, Buyer’s Curse
- Information and the Choice of Auctions
Lots and (Un)Bundling
- Number of Lots: (Un)Bundling, Participation and Competition
- Package Bidding as Endogenous Lot Design
Lessons 17 and 18, Dr. Adriano Di Domenicantonio
Monday, December 10th, 3-6 PM Tuesday December 11th , 3-6 PM:
Simulating an awarding procedure from Drafting the tender notice to awarding the contract:
- Procedure and contractual choice.
- Participation and qualitative selection criteria
- Service Level Agreements, Key Performance Indicators and penalties (deductions)
- Contract award criteria and award procedure:
1. The choice of the the awarding criteria: LP vs MEAT
2. Weighting price and quality
3. Introduction to scoring rules
4. Application of scoring rules in procurement:
5. Manipulability and collusion
A brief profile of the teachers:
Nicola Dimitri:
Nicola Dimitri is Professor of Economics at the University of Siena (Italy) Research Fellow and Innovation Procurement Chair at Maastricht School of Management, Lecturer at the Institute for Advanced Studies (IMT) Lucca (Italy) and Life Member of Clare Hall College (Cambridge-UK). He was formerly Deputy Rector of the University of Siena and Head of the Economics Department. He has been Fullbright Student, Chevening Scholar, NATO-CNR and Fernand Braudel Fellow (EUI). From 2003 until 2008 he collaborated as Economic consultant with the Research Office of Consip, the Italian Procurement Agency for the public sector. His research interests include game and decision theory, behavioral and cognitive economics, procurement, health and pharmaceutical economics, innovation and incentives. He is one of the editors and of the authors of the “Handbook of Procurement (Cambridge University Press, 2006)” as well as of other articles and reports on procurement.
Adriano Di Domenicantonio:
Adriano Di Domenicantonio is a Buyer for a big public utility company in the transportation sector, dealing with technical purchasing. - and has been a procurement consultant at "Advanced Procurement" a consulting, professional training and research firm. As consultant he has worked in projects for the International Fund of Agricultural Development (IFAD), the Region of Lazio, several public utilities companies among which ACEA Ltd., ENI Ltd and Poste Italiane Ltd. He graduated in Economics and he holds a Master in "Procurement Management" from University of Rome “Tor Vergata”.
Francesco Decarolis:
Associate Professor, Università Bocconi - Department of Economics since 2017. Previously he held various permanent and visiting positions at EIEF-Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance; Boston University; Stanford University; University of Pennsylvania; University of Wisconsin Madison; Columbia University and University of Chicago. Member of the European Commission - DG Comp, Economic Advisory Group on Competition Policy (EAGCP). Coordinator of the Economics Faculty at the Italian National School of Administration. Research areas: Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics, Market Design, Health Economics. Education: BA in Economics cum laude from Università Bocconi in 2002 and PhD in Economics from University of Chicago in 2009.
Gustavo Piga:
Gustavo Piga, Ph. D. in Economics at Columbia University, is Full Professor of Economics at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, where he chairs the Master in Procurement Management. He is the co-editor of the Handbook of Procurement, edited by Cambridge University Press. He has been a procurement consultant and a member of several Procurement Expert Groups. He has chaired the Italian Procurement Agency for Goods and Services, Consip Ltd., between 2002 and 2005. He is also the co-editor of The European Journal of Public Procurement Markets and a columnist for several newspapers. See www.gustavopiga.it for more details.
Updated A.Y. 2017-2018
Updated A.Y. 2017-2018
MODULE’s coordinator:
Prof. Gustavo Piga e-mail: gustavo.piga@uniroma2.it tel.: 06/7259-5701
CONTRIBUTORS TO THE MODULE:
Prof. Nicola Dimitri (6 hours)
Prof. Gustavo Piga (18 hours)
Dott. Adriano Di Domenicantonio (6 hours)
Leonardo M. Giuffrida (6 hours)
The Program
Sourcing and procurement are becoming a key strategic function of modern economic organizations. These Lectures are meant to support the student with basic procurement tools.
The topics:
1) Contracts for sourcing and competitive procurement;
2) Corruption and ethics in sourcing;
3) Centralizing procurement: the trade-offs;
4) Sourcing in complex organizations;
5) Award Procedures;
6) Contracting Strategies;
7) SMEs and procurement;
8) Auctions and scoring rules;
9) Scoring rules in procurement;
10) Innovation and procurement.
The Material:
The teacher will refer the student, by the end of each week, to the library where she/he will find relevant material on the basis of the following textbooks:
1) Handbook of Procurement, edited by Nicola Dimitri, Gustavo Piga and Giancarlo Spagnolo (to be purchased at discount) Cambridge University Press 2) Handouts.
Exam rules: Presence in class is essential and monitored with signatures. Students with 24 hours presence at least will only face an oral exam with Prof. Piga.
Students with less than 30 hours presence will also pass a written exam and, if passed, an oral exam.
Office Hours, room of Prof. Piga (3rd floor, Building B): via appointment via e-mail.
*
Lesson 1, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Monday, November 6th, 2017, 3-5 PM
Lesson 2, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Tuesday, November 7th, 2017, 3-5 PM
Lesson 3, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Wednesday, November 8th, 2017, 3-5 PM
Lesson 6, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Monday, November 13th, 2017, 3-5 PM
Lesson 7, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Tuesday, November 14th, 2017, 3-5 PM
Lesson 8, Dr. Leonardo M. Giuffrida, Wednesday, November 15th, 2017, 3-5 PM
Lesson 9, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Monday, November 20th, 2017, 3-5 PM
Lesson 10, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Tuesday, November 21st, 2017, 3-5 PM
Lesson 11, Dr. Leonardo M. Giuffrida, Wednesday, November 22nd, 2017, 3-5 PM
Lesson 12, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Monday, November 27th, 2017, 3-5 PM
Lesson 13, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Tuesday, November 28th, 2017, 3-5 PM
Lesson 14, Dr. Leonardo M. Giuffrida, Wednesday, November 29th, 2017, 3-5 PM
Prof. Piga's topics
Procurement: stylized facts
Competition and Quality in Procurement: Substitutes or Complements? Summing-up.
Ethics in procurement. Definition of corruption. Modalities of corruption in procurement. Corruption, competition and collusion.
Ethics in Procurement. The role of transparency. The role of checks and controls. E-procurement and corruption.
The Challenge of e-proc and Centralization or the e-proc and Centralization challenges? Models of E-procurement.
Procurement and small firms.
Centralization of procurement in complex organizations. Benchmarking across public administrations. Possible systems of governance. Impact of centralization. The issue of competences.
Dr. Leonardo M. Giuffrida will cover three hot topics in the procurement literature and public debate:
- Set aside and Preference Programs: bid preferences and restriction of competition in procurement tenders allow firms from an identifiable group an advantage against unfavored firms. The goal of public authorities is to provide contract opportunities for small businesses or firms operated by members of groups designated as disadvantaged. While economic efficiency is expected to fall as a result of reduced competition, long-term government procurement costs may either increase or decrease depending on the response of favored and unfavored firms. We will review the most relevant contributions of economic literature to this topic.
- The role of Buyers’ Competence: Specialized skills are needed to undertake the procurement activity. Procurers must appropriately handle a multiplicity of complex tasks, including choosing the tender format, the award criteria, the tender specifications, and the contract design, even for rather simple acquisitions. I will present recent contributions to the economic and policy debate on the importance of improving the quality of a purchasing unit and paying more attention to the demand side of the procurement market.
- Public procurement of Innovation: economists consider market demand as one of the major drivers of technological change and innovation. Recently, scholars and policy makers started to suggest that public procurement, may have a specific and important role in this process. We will discuss recent analyses of innovative public procurement as a technology policy and investigate the impact of procurement on firms' innovative behavior.
Lessons 4 and 5, Prof. Nicola Dimitri, Thursday, November 9th, 2017, 9AM-12 PM and Friday, November 10th, 2017, 9AM-12 PM
Centralizing procurement: the trade-offs;
Award procedures.
- Competitive Tendering
- Negotiation
Procurement Contracting Strategies
- Fixed Price Contracts
- Cost plus fee contracts
- Incentive contracts
Competitive Procurement Design:
- Winner’s Curse, Buyer’s Curse
- Information and the Choice of Auctions
Lots and (Un)Bundling
- Number of Lots: (Un)Bundling, Participation and Competition
- Package Bidding as Endogenous Lot Design
Lessons 15 and 16, Dr. Adriano Di Domenicantonio
Monday, December 4th, 3-6 PM Tuesday December 5th , 3-6 PM:
Simulating an awarding procedure from Drafting the tender notice to awarding the contract:
- Procedure and contractual choice.
- Participation and qualitative selection criteria
- Service Level Agreements, Key Performance Indicators and penalties (deductions)
- Contract award criteria and award procedure:
1. The choice of the the awarding criteria: LP vs MEAT
2. Weighting price and quality
3. Introduction to scoring rules
4. Application of scoring rules in procurement:
5. Manipulability and collusion
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A brief profile of the teachers:
Nicola Dimitri:
Nicola Dimitri is Professor of Economics at the University of Siena (Italy) Research Fellow and Innovation Procurement Chair at Maastricht School of Management, Lecturer at the Institute for Advanced Studies (IMT) Lucca (Italy) and Life Member of Clare Hall College (Cambridge-UK). He was formerly Deputy Rector of the University of Siena and Head of the Economics Department. He has been Fullbright Student, Chevening Scholar, NATO-CNR and Fernand Braudel Fellow (EUI). From 2003 until 2008 he collaborated as Economic consultant with the Research Office of Consip, the Italian Procurement Agency for the public sector. His research interests include game and decision theory, behavioral and cognitive economics, procurement, health and pharmaceutical economics, innovation and incentives. He is one of the editors and of the authors of the “Handbook of Procurement (Cambridge University Press, 2006)” as well as of other articles and reports on procurement.
Adriano Di Domenicantonio:
Adriano Di Domenicantonio is a Buyer for a big public utility company in the transportation sector, dealing with technical purchasing. - and has been a procurement consultant at "Advanced Procurement" a consulting, professional training and research firm. As consultant he has worked in projects for the International Fund of Agricultural Development (IFAD), the Region of Lazio, several public utilities companies among which ACEA Ltd., ENI Ltd and Poste Italiane Ltd. He graduated in Economics and he holds a Master in "Procurement Management" from University of Rome “Tor Vergata”.
Leonardo M. Giuffrida:
Leonardo M. Giuffrida is Ph.D. in Economics at Tor Vergata University with a doctoral dissertation on "Advances in the Economics of Public Procurement". He is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at Tor Vergata University. His research activity involves the empirical investigation of Government Procurement as a tool to promote public policies in a wide range of fields and reach desired outcomes in society.
Gustavo Piga:
Gustavo Piga, Ph. D. in Economics at Columbia University, is Full Professor of Economics at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, where he chairs the Master in Procurement Management. He is the co-editor of the Handbook of Procurement, edited by Cambridge University Press. He has been a procurement consultant and a member of several Procurement Expert Groups. He has chaired the Italian Procurement Agency for Goods and Services, Consip Ltd., between 2002 and 2005. He is also the co-editor of The European Journal of Public Procurement Markets and a columnist for several newspapers. See www.gustavopiga.it for more details.
Updated A.Y. 2015-2016
CONTRIBUTORS TO THE MODULE: Prof. Nicola Dimitri (6 hours) Prof. Gustavo Piga (18 hours) Avv. Daniele Ricciardi and Dott. Adriano Di Domenicantonio (6 hours)
The Program Sourcing and procurement are becoming a key strategic function of modern economic organizations. These Lectures are meant to support the student with basic procurement tools.
The topics: 1) Contracts for sourcing and competitive procurement; 2) Corruption and ethics in sourcing; 3) Centralizing procurement: the trade-offs; 4) Sourcing in complex organizations; 5) Award Procedures 6) Contracting Strategies 7) Public and private partnerships for the provision of public services: a case study; 8) Auctions and scoring rules. 9) Scoring rules in procurement. 10) Case study: drafting and awarding a European tender.
The Material: The teacher will refer the student, by the end of each week, to the library where she/he will find relevant material on the basis of the following textbooks: 1) Handbook of Procurement, edited by Nicola Dimitri, Gustavo Piga and Giancarlo Spagnolo (to be purchased at discount) 2) Handouts.
Exam rules: Presence in class is essential and monitored with signatures. Students with 24 hours presence at least will only face an oral exam with Prof. Piga. Students with less than 24 hours presence will also pass a written exam and, if passed, an oral exam.
Office Hours, room of Prof. Piga (3rd floor, Building B): via appointment via e-mail.
Lesson 1, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Monday, April 11th, 2016, 2-4 PM
Lesson 2, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Tuesday, April 12th, 2016, 2-4 PM
Lesson 3, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Monday, April 18th, 2016, 2-4 PM
Lesson 4, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Tuesday, April 19th, 2016, 2-4 PM
Lesson 5, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Wednesday, April 20th, 2016, 2-4 PM
Lesson 6, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Tuesday, April 26th, 2016, 2-4 PM
Lesson 7, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Wednesday, April 27th, 2016, 2-4 PM
Lesson 10, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Wednesday, May 4th, 2016, 2-4 PM
Lesson 11, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Thursday, May 5th, 2016, 2-4 PM
Competition and Quality in Procurement: Substitutes or Complements? Summing-up. Ethics in procurement. Definition of corruption. Modalities of corruption in procurement. Corruption, competition and collusion. Ethics in Procurement. The role of transparency. The role of checks and controls. E-procurement and corruption. The Challenge of e-proc and Centralization or the e-proc and Centralization challenges? Models of E-procurement. Procurement and small firms. Centralization of procurement in complex organizations. Benchmarking across public administrations. Possible systems of governance. Impact of centralization. The issue of competences.
Lessons 8 and 9, Prof. Nicola Dimitri, Monday, May 2nd, 2016, 2-5 PM and Tuesday May 3rd, 2016, 2-5 PM
Award procedures. - Competitive Tendering - Negotiation Procurement Contracting Strategies - Fixed Price Contracts - Cost plus fee contracts - Incentive contracts Competitive Procurement Design: - Winner’s Curse, Buyer’s Curse - Information and the Choice of Auctions Lots and (Un)Bundling - Number of Lots: (Un)Bundling, Participation and Competition - Package Bidding as Endogenous Lot Design Evaluation and awarding criteria in procurement: - The choice of the the awarding criteria: LP vs MEAT - Weighting price and quality - Introduction to scoring rules Application of scoring rules in procurement: - Manipulability and collusion
Lessons 12 and 13, Dr. Adriano Di Domenicantonio and Avv. Daniele Ricciardi Monday, May 9th, Tuesday May 10th , 2-5 PM:
Interdisciplinary skills required to prepare tender documents: the lawyer and the buyer, roles / interactions in private and public procurement. Principles governing European public procurement directives. From Drafting the tender notice to awarding the contract: - Procedure and contractual choice. - Participation and qualitative selection criteria - Service Level Agreements, Key Performance Indicators and penalties (deductions) - Contract award criteria and award procedure. Simulating an awarding procedure using the most advantageous economic tender criterion
A brief profile of the teachers:
Nicola Dimitri: Nicola Dimitri is Professor of Economics at the University of Siena (Italy) Research Fellow and Honoray Professor at Maastricht School of Management, Lecturer at the Institute for Advanced Studies (IMT) Lucca (Italy) and Life Member of Clare Hall College (Cambridge-UK). He was formerly Deputy Rector of the University of Siena and Chair of the Economics Department. He has been Fullbright Student, Chevening Scholar, NATO-CNR and Fernand Braudel Fellow (EUI). From 2003 until 2008 he collaborated as Economic consultant with the Research Office of Consip, the Italian Procurement Agency for the public sector. His research interests include game and decision theory, behavioral and cognitive economics, procurement, health and pharmaceutical economics, innovation and incentives. He is one of the editors and of the authors of the “Handbook of Procurement (Cambridge University Press, 2006)” as well as of other articles and reports on procurement.
Adriano Di Domenicantonio: Adriano Di Domenicantonio is a Buyer for a big public utility company in the transportation sector, dealing with technical purchasing. - and has been a procurement consultant at "Advanced Procurement" a consulting, professional training and research firm. As consultant he has worked in projects for the International Fund of Agricultural Development (IFAD), the Region of Lazio, several public utilities companies among which ACEA Ltd., ENI Ltd and Poste Italiane Ltd. He graduated in Economics and he holds a Master in "Procurement Management" from University of Rome “Tor Vergata”.
Gustavo Piga: Gustavo Piga, Ph. D. in Economics at Columbia University, is Full Professor of Economics at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, where he chairs the Master in Procurement Management. He is the co-editor of the Handbook of Procurement, edited by Cambridge University Press. He has been a procurement consultant and a member of several Procurement Expert Groups. He has chaired the Italian Procurement Agency for Goods and Services, Consip Ltd., between 2002 and 2005 and is the Coordinator of the Project “Us, against Corruption” a joint Tor Vergata-ANAC project (http:// www.anticorruzione.eu). He is also the editor of the Rivista di Politica Economica, the scientific journal of Confindustria and a columnist for several newspapers. See www.gustavopiga.it for more details.
Daniele Ricciardi: Daniele Ricciardi is attorney and consultant in the field of public contracts. After an intensive experience at the Legal Dept. of the Italian Procurement Agency for Goods and Services (Consip Ltd.), he moved to the private sector as trainer and consultant for central and local contracting authorities. As international legal expert he was involved in projects funded by EU Commission and World Bank for supporting the public procurement systems of Republic of Albania (2006) and Bangladesh (2008). He is Adjunct Professor at the LUMSA University of Rome and lecturer on innovation in public administration and electronic procurement at the University of Macerata and at the University of Rome Tor Vergata.
Updated A.Y. 2015-2016
CONTRIBUTORS TO THE MODULE:
Prof. Nicola Dimitri (6 hours) Prof. Gustavo Piga (18 hours) Avv. Daniele Ricciardi and Dott. Adriano Di Domenicantonio (6 hours)
The Program Sourcing and procurement are becoming a key strategic function of modern economic organizations. These Lectures are meant to support the student with basic procurement tools.
The topics: 1) Contracts for sourcing and competitive procurement; 2) Corruption and ethics in sourcing; 3) Centralizing procurement: the trade-offs; 4) Sourcing in complex organizations; 5) Award Procedures 6) Contracting Strategies 7) Public and private partnerships for the provision of public services: a case study; 8) Auctions and scoring rules. 9) Scoring rules in procurement. 10) Case study: drafting and awarding a European tender.
The Material: The teacher will refer the student, by the end of each week, to the library where she/he will find relevant material on the basis of the following textbooks: 1) Handbook of Procurement, edited by Nicola Dimitri, Gustavo Piga and Giancarlo Spagnolo (to be purchased at discount) 2) Handouts.
Exam rules: Presence in class is essential and monitored with signatures. Students with 24 hours presence at least will only face an oral exam with Prof. Piga. Students with less than 24 hours presence will also pass a written exam and, if passed, an oral exam.
Office Hours, room of Prof. Piga (3rd floor, Building B): via appointment via e-mail.
Lesson 1, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Monday, April 11th, 2016, 2-4 PM
Lesson 2, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Tuesday, April 12th, 2016, 2-4 PM
Lesson 3, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Monday, April 18th, 2016, 2-4 PM
Lesson 4, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Tuesday, April 19th, 2016, 2-4 PM
Lesson 5, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Wednesday, April 20th, 2016, 2-4 PM
Lesson 6, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Tuesday, April 26th, 2016, 2-4 PM
Lesson 7, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Wednesday, April 27th, 2016, 2-4 PM
Lesson 10, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Wednesday, May 4th, 2016, 2-4 PM
Lesson 11, Prof. Gustavo Piga, Thursday, May 5th, 2016, 2-4 PM
Competition and Quality in Procurement: Substitutes or Complements? Summing-up. Ethics in procurement. Definition of corruption. Modalities of corruption in procurement. Corruption, competition and collusion. Ethics in Procurement. The role of transparency. The role of checks and controls. E-procurement and corruption. The Challenge of e-proc and Centralization or the e-proc and Centralization challenges? Models of E-procurement. Procurement and small firms. Centralization of procurement in complex organizations. Benchmarking across public administrations. Possible systems of governance. Impact of centralization. The issue of competences.
Lessons 8 and 9, Prof. Nicola Dimitri, Monday, May 2nd, 2016, 2-5 PM and Tuesday May 3rd, 2016, 2-5 PM
Award procedures. - Competitive Tendering - Negotiation Procurement Contracting Strategies - Fixed Price Contracts - Cost plus fee contracts - Incentive contracts Competitive Procurement Design: - Winner’s Curse, Buyer’s Curse - Information and the Choice of Auctions Lots and (Un)Bundling - Number of Lots: (Un)Bundling, Participation and Competition - Package Bidding as Endogenous Lot Design Evaluation and awarding criteria in procurement: - The choice of the the awarding criteria: LP vs MEAT - Weighting price and quality - Introduction to scoring rules Application of scoring rules in procurement: - Manipulability and collusion
Lessons 12 and 13, Dr. Adriano Di Domenicantonio and Avv. Daniele Ricciardi Monday, May 9th, Tuesday May 10th , 2-5 PM:
Interdisciplinary skills required to prepare tender documents: the lawyer and the buyer, roles / interactions in private and public procurement. Principles governing European public procurement directives. From Drafting the tender notice to awarding the contract: - Procedure and contractual choice. - Participation and qualitative selection criteria - Service Level Agreements, Key Performance Indicators and penalties (deductions) - Contract award criteria and award procedure. Simulating an awarding procedure using the most advantageous economic tender criterion
A brief profile of the teachers:
Nicola Dimitri: Nicola Dimitri is Professor of Economics at the University of Siena (Italy) Research Fellow and Honoray Professor at Maastricht School of Management, Lecturer at the Institute for Advanced Studies (IMT) Lucca (Italy) and Life Member of Clare Hall College (Cambridge-UK). He was formerly Deputy Rector of the University of Siena and Chair of the Economics Department. He has been Fullbright Student, Chevening Scholar, NATO-CNR and Fernand Braudel Fellow (EUI). From 2003 until 2008 he collaborated as Economic consultant with the Research Office of Consip, the Italian Procurement Agency for the public sector. His research interests include game and decision theory, behavioral and cognitive economics, procurement, health and pharmaceutical economics, innovation and incentives. He is one of the editors and of the authors of the “Handbook of Procurement (Cambridge University Press, 2006)” as well as of other articles and reports on procurement.
Adriano Di Domenicantonio: Adriano Di Domenicantonio is a Buyer for a big public utility company in the transportation sector, dealing with technical purchasing. - and has been a procurement consultant at "Advanced Procurement" a consulting, professional training and research firm. As consultant he has worked in projects for the International Fund of Agricultural Development (IFAD), the Region of Lazio, several public utilities companies among which ACEA Ltd., ENI Ltd and Poste Italiane Ltd. He graduated in Economics and he holds a Master in "Procurement Management" from University of Rome “Tor Vergata”.
Gustavo Piga: Gustavo Piga, Ph. D. in Economics at Columbia University, is Full Professor of Economics at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, where he chairs the Master in Procurement Management. He is the co-editor of the Handbook of Procurement, edited by Cambridge University Press. He has been a procurement consultant and a member of several Procurement Expert Groups. He has chaired the Italian Procurement Agency for Goods and Services, Consip Ltd., between 2002 and 2005 and is the Coordinator of the Project “Us, against Corruption” a joint Tor Vergata-ANAC project (http:// www.anticorruzione.eu). He is also the editor of the Rivista di Politica Economica, the scientific journal of Confindustria and a columnist for several newspapers. See www.gustavopiga.it for more details.
Daniele Ricciardi: Daniele Ricciardi is attorney and consultant in the field of public contracts. After an intensive experience at the Legal Dept. of the Italian Procurement Agency for Goods and Services (Consip Ltd.), he moved to the private sector as trainer and consultant for central and local contracting authorities. As international legal expert he was involved in projects funded by EU Commission and World Bank for supporting the public procurement systems of Republic of Albania (2006) and Bangladesh (2008). He is Adjunct Professor at the LUMSA University of Rome and lecturer on innovation in public administration and electronic procurement at the University of Macerata and at the University of Rome Tor Vergata.