Simulation of Proposal Evaluation Activities in a Regional Operational Programme

摘要

The Regional Operating Programme of Thessalia (ROP-Th) is one of the 24 operational programmes (13 regional and 11 area specific) funded by the 3rd European Community Support Framework (CSF), the aim of which is to reduce the gap in economic development between Greece and the other member states of the European Union. The total budget of the CSF dedicated to the ROP of Thessalia is almost 1 billion euros. Administration of the ROP-Th is the main duty of the Programme Managing Authority (PMA), a public regional authority which is responsible to proclaim, evaluate and monitor hundred of projects that implement the ROP's objectives and priorities. This paper presents a simulation model to support the PMA in order to perform management and scheduling decisions on initial ROP's purchasing activities (i.e., setting-up calls for proposals, proposals receipt and eligibility checks, proposals evaluation and generation of contracts). The objective of the simulation model is to help PMA management to exploit efficiently all involved human resources (proposal evaluators) in the evaluation process by correlating simulated data with actual data based on the programme history. Simulation can be applied to estimate delays and identify, in quantified terms, the effects of re-engineering the purchasing process.