title: Collusion identification in the English auction with a small price reduction: The case of St. Petersburg public hospitals’ procurement
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metadata.value: Ivanov, Andrey E.
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metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Golubeva, Anastasia A.
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metadata.value: Gilenko, Evgeniy V.
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metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Bezhenar, Olga N.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2022-09-13T14:12:54Z
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metadata.value: 2022-09-13T14:12:54Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-12
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metadata.value: Ivanov A. E., Golubeva A. A., Gilenko E. V., Bezhenar O. N. 2021. Collusion identification in the English auction with a small price reduction: The case of St. Petersburg public hospitals’ procurement. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Management 20 (4): 581–617.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu08.2021.405
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/37734
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metadata.value: In the Russian Federation, the topicality of the problem of collusion between suppliers at public
  auctions is caused by the fact that since 2006 the Russian public procurement legislation has
  been aimed at limiting the discretionary power of the public buyer to a much greater extent as
  compared to the modern international procurement practice. Such limitation was set, basically,
  by selecting the English auction (least suitable for effective collusion counteraction) as the main
  public procurement procedure. This paper studies the collusion problem as related to the purchases
  of St. Petersburg public hospitals over the period of 2014–2020. An important attribute of these purchases is that most of them use the English auction as the procurement method. The
  collected empirical evidence on 91 999 public purchases of the medical organizations in St. Petersburg
  demonstrated that almost half of them resulted in a slight (no more than 1,5%) decrease
  of the initial contract price. The paper identifies the main issues of the Russian procurement legislation
  in general and those related to the healthcare sector, in particular, that increase incentives
  for collusion. Recommendations on how to deal with these issues are provided. For the auctions
  with a slight initial contract price decrease, the paper formulates sufficient conditions for identification
  of collusion between suppliers. The conditions are based on the information of suppliers’
  behavior during the auction. As demonstrated in the paper, the application of these conditions to
  the results of conducted auctions can significantly help the Russian Federal Antitrust Service in
  its activities to identify the public purchases suspected of collusion between suppliers.
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metadata.value: The research was supported by a grant from St. Petersburg State University (project No. 60419987).
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metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Management;Volume 20; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: public procurement
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: English auction
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: collusion between suppliers
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: public hospitals
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Collusion identification in the English auction with a small price reduction: The case of St. Petersburg public hospitals’ procurement
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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