Nonparametric Identification and Estimation of Score Auctions in Multi-Attribute Procurement

Governmental agencies use score procurement auctions to incorporate other attributes beyond price in their purchase decisions. We establish nonparametric econometric identification of bidders' independent private (pseudo)types for multi-attribute procurement, where bids are evaluated using a preannounced quasi-linear score, calculated on the basis of the submitted levels of the attributes. Hence, it is possible to extend the standard nonparametric method for independent private costs sealed-bid- first-price auctions to multi-attribute score auctions by incorporating the optimal bidding structure