Extreme Advertised Bidding

Abstract

The award procedure in the field of advertised bidding has a great deal of influence on the software process. Therefore the choice of a qualified type of award procedure is of particular importance for the success of a software development project in the public sector. The open procedure and the restricted procedure, two types of award procedures, require a complete and detailed requirements specification, to enable the comparison of the tenders. From a software development point of view, the application of one of these types means using the waterfall model with its well known problems. One type of award procedure, the negotiated procedure, permits the application of an agile approach and is therefore the basis for all kinds of risk mitigating software processes.