Technology management for the procurement of rail vehicles

More recently, Technology Management (TM) activities and tools have been gained ever-increasingly importance by managers and decision makers. In the process of technology acquisition and exploitation, proper execution of TM tools will be able to lead to make long and complicated processes easier to be managed and to be better organised of systems. For the purpose of more and more contribution to Turkey's economy, science and research – development capabilities by means of the large public procurements, Industrial Cooperation Program (ICP) as a civil offset regulation has been gone in effect by Rep. of Turkey Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology in 2015. The complexity of matters, such as local industry participation, investment and technological cooperation categories in ICP, are able to be understandable with the help of the case studies and TM principles in the field of railway sector. In this study, firstly; the economic, the technical, the operational criterias, the non-price factors for the contracts and the other determinants on the basis of the case studies were reasonably suggested with the aim of the identification, usage, selection of the technologies and boosting the cooperation among the stakeholders in the growing demand for the rail vehicles in Turkey. Secondly, in the process of the large rail vehicle procurements as TM activities, with the purpose of the identification, the selection, the acquisition, the exploitation, the protection, the learning of the rail vehicle technologies and carrying out ICP contract processes in an effective and an efficient manner; a reference TM model established as a flow diagram was developed in this study for the authorities.