Table A1.

Additional file: “Coded”

DefinitionReference
Sensing
a preliminary market analysis A buyer’s capability to analyze supplier market (Clausen et al., 2020) 
Listen to end users Capability to gain need related knowledge from end users of procured goods/services.end-user engagement (Torvinen and Ulkuniemi, 2016) 
Synthesizing knowledge from substance experts and from the supplier markets A capability to synthesize substance and supplier market knowledge (Clausen et al., 2020) 
Sensing experiences from previous procurement rounds A capability to sense experience from procurement history lessons learned (Santos and Cabral, 2022) 
Sensing other public institutions  A capability to sense other public organizations and their practices  Use of external knowledge (Clausen et al., 2020) 
Using enterprises as knowledge source A capability to receive external knowledge from enterprises (Clausen et al., 2020) 
Using substance experts A capability to access and integrate product/service related substance knowledge to the procurement process, both internally within the buyer organization and externallyknowledge scanning (Brandon-Jones and Knoppen, 2018)
Seizing
   
Seizing tender attractiveness The buyer’s capability to create tender that is appealing to suppliers N/A 
Seizing tender specification The buyer’s capability to form tender specifications which fulfils their key objectivesdescription and specification ability (Holma et al., 2022), specification (Santos and Cabral, 2022) 
Seizing interaction with suppliers The skills and knowledge regarding interaction with suppliers interactive capability (Holma et al., 2022) 
Seizing of tendering process  The buyer’s capability to design and implement tendering processes to fulfil their key objectivesThe bid and contract capability (Santos and Cabral, 2022) 
Transforming
   
Facilitating suppliers to learn needs of public buyers A capability to direct the markets towards buyer’s needs in the long termdemand ability (Holma et al., 2022) 
Facilitating global impacts A capability to create strategy that leads to global impacts for businesses and societies policy coordination capabilities (Kattel and Mazzucato, 2018) 
Transformation through integration  Capability to facilitate integration of technologies or stakeholders  innovation capabilities (Clausen et al., 2020) 
Smart measuring  Capability to integrate measurement to both procurement process and the use of procured goods/servicesN/A 
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