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  2. Bidder conferences - Wikipedia

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    A Bidder Conference is organized as a key part of the bidding process by the owners of the project, who now become the buyers. Often, participation in the Bidder Conference is a prerequisite to being allowed to enrol and join the actual bidding process thereafter. Therefore, in most cases, the Bidder Conference is held during early stages of ...

  3. Generalized second-price auction - Wikipedia

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    The generalized second-price auction (GSP) is a non-truthful auction mechanism for multiple items. Each bidder places a bid. The highest bidder gets the first slot, the second-highest, the second slot and so on, but the highest bidder pays the price bid by the second-highest bidder, the second-highest pays the price bid by the third-highest, and so on.

  4. Invitation to tender - Wikipedia

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    A tender announcement from the Indonesian Ministry of Finance. An invitation to tender (ITT, also known as a call for bids [1] or a request for tenders) is a formal, structured procedure for generating competing offers from different potential suppliers or contractors looking to obtain an award of business activity in works, supply, or service contracts, often from companies who have been ...

  5. Record percentage in Gallup poll sees US as greatly divided ...

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    A record-high 80 percent of U.S. adults say Americans are “greatly divided” on the most important values, according to a recent Gallup poll. The survey does not define “most important values ...

  6. Auction theory - Wikipedia

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    Auction theory is a branch of applied economics that deals with how bidders act in auctions and researches how the features of auctions incentivise predictable outcomes. Auction theory is a tool used to inform the design of real-world auctions. Sellers use auction theory to raise higher revenues while allowing buyers to procure at a lower cost.

  7. All-pay auction - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. In economics and game theory, an all-pay auction is an auction in which every bidder must pay regardless of whether they win the prize, which is awarded to the highest bidder as in a conventional auction. As shown by Riley and Samuelson (1981), [1] equilibrium bidding in an all pay auction with private information is revenue equivalent ...

  8. Auction - Wikipedia

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    An American auctioneer using auction chant at a livestock auction, November 2010. An auction is usually a process of buying and selling goods or services by offering them up for bids, taking bids, and then selling the item to the highest bidder or buying the item from the lowest bidder. Some exceptions to this definition exist and are described ...

  9. Tender offer - Wikipedia

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    In corporate finance, a tender offer is a type of public takeover bid. The tender offer is a public, open offer or invitation (usually announced in a newspaper advertisement) by a prospective acquirer to all stockholders of a publicly traded corporation (the target corporation) to tender their stock for sale at a specified price during a specified time, subject to the tendering of a minimum ...