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Fig. 5

From: Characterization of the firm–firm public procurement co-bidding network from the State of Ceará (Brazil) municipalities

Fig. 5

Characterization by bidding activity. Panel a shows the average number of single bids per community (i.e., the average number of times a firm in a community participated in a tender as the single bidder). We compared the values of each company with the average of the entire population of firms (horizontal red line). Panel b shows the average number of bidders in tenders in which firms within a community typically participate. We normalized the value obtained for each community by the number of firms in that community. The horizontal red line shows the threshold that marks the size of the community

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