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Call for Bids, Request for Information and Awarding are different parts/phases of the procurement. So, if the article is just an outline they can be incorporated here. Looking in the near future, where we could have an analysis of each phase, it sould have different articles. Therefore i vote for Different Articles. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.129.49.66 (talk) 09:55, 29 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Public Tendering

"Government procurement, also called public tendering..." This is misleading as it implies that public tendering is confined to government procurement. Often the word "public" is used to refer to aspects of a government i.e. Public Servants, Public Works, Public Infrastructure, etc... The word "public" is also used to refer to opening up a process to the general public at large. This is illustrated when a company "goes public" and offers shares to the public at large. This is referred to as an "Initial Public Offering" or "IPO" it has little if anything to do with government. With an understanding that the word "public" is commonly used in these two seperate contexts it is important to consider what "Public Tender" refers to.

Public Tendering is simply opening up tenders to the public at large. Another word for public tender is open tender and the opposite of public tender is private tender. Both government and private organizations tender work publicly. The "public" in public tendering does not refer to government but rather refers to the tenders being open for bid by anyone. The "private" in private tendering does not refer to private sector but rather refers to the tenders being only open for bid by select bidders.

The article leads the reader to understand that the "public" in public tendering refers to a government procurement process as opposed to a general process that both government and private industry engage in. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stephanjantz (talk • contribs) 15:21, 6 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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I think it would be relevant to add at the end of the “Public procurement and innovation” section the following findings from a reliable source (scholarly papers). What do you think? I have a COI with de Rassenfosse. (See my userpage for more info).

A 2019 study on the effects of government funding for R&D in the US found that only a small percentage of R&D procurement contracts led to patents, but these patents accounted for a large portion of the total contract value. ^[1] AM13prime (talk) 16:01, 2 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

^ de Rassenfosse, Gaétan; Jaffe, Adam; Raiteri, Emilio (2019). "The procurement of innovation by the U.S. government". PLOS ONE. 14 (8): 1.

[1] Rassenfosse, Gaétan; Jaffe, Adam; Raiteri, Emilio (2019). "The procurement of innovation by the U.S. government". PLOS ONE. 14 (8): 1.

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