Public sector tendering: Issues and analysis

The absence of a robust tendering theory and a companion body of knowledge, has nurtured a public sector environment which promulgates problematic mathematical processes and mandates procedures which make the implementation of superior methods unlikely. Current policies tend to be insensitive to change except in the face of judicial reasoning. The interplay of auction theory, game theory, decision theory, domain ontology and agreement design, provides a fruitful environment for establishing a theory of tendering with an associated body of knowledge. A pre-cursor activity is the design of a framework to study these interactions.