Assessments in public procurement procedures Martínez Rico, Ricardo Sánchez Soriano, Joaquín Llorca, Natividad Public procurement Tender Assessment Scoring Cap Weighted average Truncation Proportionality We thank the Editor and three anonymous Reviewers for their time to review our paper and also for their incisive comments. These comments have been very helpful to improve our work. Ricardo Martinez acknowledges the R&D&I project grant PID2020-114309GB-I00 funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and by "ERDF A way of making Europe/EU", and he also acknowledges financial support from Junta de Andalucia under projects P18-FR-2933, FEDER UGR A-SEJ-14-UGR20, and Grupos PAIDI SEJ660. Joaquin Sanchez-Soriano acknowledges the R&D&I project grant PGC2018-097965-B-I00 funded by "MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033" and by "ERDF A way of making Europe/EU", and he also acknowledges financial support from the Generalitat Valenciana under project PROMETEO/2021/063. In this paper we study how to assess the performance of a group of individuals according to their achievements in several attributes or categories by means of a scoring system. Such an assessment is the composition of two steps. First, each individual obtains a partial score in each category (that may potentially depend on her opponents’ performance). And second, those partial scores are combined into a global assessment. The partial score in each attribute is upper bounded by an exogenous threshold or cap. Each problem is determined by four elements: a set of agents (or tenders), a set of attributes to be evaluated, a matrix of achievements that specified the score each agent has obtained in each attribute, and a vector of caps. By means of the axiomatic methodology, we identify the families of assessment functions that satisfy some natural requirements ( anonymity, continuity, monotonicity, null contribution, additivity , and separability ). Our findings state that these families are weighted averages of the attribute assessments. Finally, as an illustration, we analyze a public tender whose purpose was to carry out an accounts auditing of a public company. As a practical implication of our theoretical results, we show that truncation presents significant advantages with respect to other methods. Particularly, it avoids the exclusion paradox. 2022-05-31T06:53:58Z 2022-05-31T06:53:58Z 2022-04-12 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Ricardo Martínez, Joaquín Sánchez-Soriano, Natividad Llorca, Assessments in public procurement procedures, Omega, Volume 111, 2022, 102660, ISSN 0305-0483, [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.omega.2022.102660] http://hdl.handle.net/10481/75117 10.1016/j.omega.2022.102660 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España Elsevier