length of eligibility criteria - Details

Identifier	Identifier 68
State	State Active
Autonomy	Autonomy Element of composite index
Description	Description This indicator counts number of characters of the eligibility criteria MINUS average number of characters of the given market's eligibility criteria. It indicates risk if eligibility criteria less visible deters bidders [ie. this indicator implies correlation between "overspecification" and tailored tenders - e.g. according to the statistics criteria length above market average by 520-2639 characters 16 increases probability of a single received bid by 10.4%-11.9% and the winner’s share within issuer’s contracts by 1.3% compared to the shortest criteria-length group]
Country	Country Hungary
Language	Language Hungarian
Link to project	Link to project http://tendertracking.eu/about
Developer	Developer Corruption Research Center Budapest
Programming language	Programming language
Development date	Development date
Link to source code	Link to source code N/A
Where to extract data from	Where to extract data from CRCB uses its own dataset for the index (partially available at tendertracking.eu). Data contains of public procurement procedures conducted under Hungarian Public Procurement. Variables appear in 1) calls for tenders; 2) contract award notices; 3) contract modification notices; 4) contract completion announcements; 5) administrative corrections notices.
Process phase	Process phase BIDDING
Validation	Validation Validated
Validation method	Validation method the indicator is partially validated. the developers only set forth possible ways of validation of CRI, but according to their own assessment, it takes several years to validate the aforementioned indicators on a whole scale. These elementary validation routes, however, are important as follows: 1. analysis of cross-sectional and time-series distribution of CRI 2. relationship between the amount of spending not reported in the PP database and CRI on the organisational level 3. analysis of profitability and turnover growth of winning firms with different CRI 4. political control of winning companies is collated with their CRI 5. comparison of average CRI of "crony companies" with those whose success is largely unaffected by government change.
Tags	Tags algorithmic eligibility criteria exclusion of bidders input indicator numeric indicator rigged specifications statistics weighted indicator

Identifier

Identifier
68

State

State
Active

Autonomy

Autonomy
Element of composite index

Description

Description
This indicator counts number of characters of the eligibility criteria MINUS average number of characters of the given market's eligibility criteria. It indicates risk if eligibility criteria less visible deters bidders [ie. this indicator implies correlation between "overspecification" and tailored tenders - e.g. according to the statistics criteria length above market average by 520-2639 characters 16 increases probability of a single received bid by 10.4%-11.9% and the winner’s share within issuer’s contracts by 1.3% compared to the shortest criteria-length group]

Country

Country
Hungary

Language

Language
Hungarian

Link to project

Link to project
http://tendertracking.eu/about

Developer

Developer
Corruption Research Center Budapest

Programming language

Programming language

Development date

Development date

Link to source code

Link to source code
N/A

Where to extract data from

Where to extract data from
CRCB uses its own dataset for the index (partially available at tendertracking.eu). Data contains of public procurement procedures conducted under Hungarian Public Procurement. Variables appear in 1) calls for tenders; 2) contract award notices; 3) contract modification notices; 4) contract completion announcements; 5) administrative corrections notices.

Process phase

Process phase
BIDDING

Validation

Validation
Validated

Validation method

Validation method
the indicator is partially validated. the developers only set forth possible ways of validation of CRI, but according to their own assessment, it takes several years to validate the aforementioned indicators on a whole scale. These elementary validation routes, however, are important as follows:
1. analysis of cross-sectional and time-series distribution of CRI
2. relationship between the amount of spending not reported in the PP database and CRI on the organisational level
3. analysis of profitability and turnover growth of winning firms with different CRI
4. political control of winning companies is collated with their CRI
5. comparison of average CRI of "crony companies" with those whose success is largely unaffected by government change.

Indicators / length of eligibility criteria

Indicators /
length of eligibility criteria