Quality Evaluation of Public Procurement: Fuzzy Logic Methodology

Abstract

This paper is aimed at stating the need for quality assessment of public procurement which enables the satisfaction of needs for products, works, and services of public institutions. It has been shown that the quality of public procurement is a multifactorial variable. 4 partial quality indices of public procurement have been identified, including both quantitative and qualitative indices; it has been hypothesized that the dependency of integral index on the change in partial indices should be searched in the class of logical-linguistic research. The logical-linguistic model of Quality, programmatically implemented in the MATLAB system of the Fuzzy Logic Toolbox package, has been developed. The researchers have obtained the results of functioning of this model for 11 procurements, the initial data for which has been excerpted from the Unified Procurement Information System of the Russian Federation.