Using an Ordinal Outranking Method Supporting the Acquisition of Military Equipment

• Main Authors: Pastijn, Hugo, Leysen, Jan
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Subjects: ACQUISITION; BELGIUM; FOREIGN REPORTS; Logistics, Military Facilities and Supplies; MILITARY EQUIPMENT; NATO; NATO FURNISHED; RANKING

In some acquisition procedures of military equipment there are no crisp data available and/or no willingness to provide quantitative data. This might often occur in an early stage of the procedure, but might also be a characteristic of the qualitative nature of some or all the criteria involved in the assessment of the alternative equipments to be selected or ranked. In such a case we propose the use of an ordinal outranking method of the ORESTE type, which requires only ordinal data and rankings of criteria according to their importance. We discuss how to use such a method in the context of an acquisition procedure of military equipment, and how to conduct the incomparability analysis. A visualization of the incomparabilities and of the total and partial rankings is presented. See also ADA562565. RTO-MP-SAS-080 Decision Support Methodologies for Acquisition of Military Equipment (Methodologies d'aide a la decision pour l'acquisition d' equipements militaires). Meeting Proceedings of Systems Analysis and Studies Panel (SAS) Specialists Meeting held in Brussels, Belgium on 22 and 23 October 2009., The original document contains color images.