  We have determined the theoretical predictions for the cross-sections of
squark and gluino production at $\ppb$ and $pp$ colliders (Tevatron and LHC) in
next-to-leading order of supersymmetric QCD. By reducing the dependence on the
renormalization/factorization scale considerably, the theoretically predicted
values for the cross-sections are much more stable if these higher-order
corrections are implemented. If squarks and gluinos are discovered, this
improved stability translates into a reduced error on the masses, as extracted
experimentally from the size of the production cross-sections. The
cross-sections increase significantly if the next-to-leading order corrections
are included at a renormalization/factorization scale near the average mass of
the produced massive particles. This rise results in improved lower bounds on
squark and gluino masses. By contrast, the shape of the transverse-momentum and
rapidity distributions remains nearly unchanged when the next-to-leading order
corrections are included.
