The relative importance of tender evaluation and contractor selection criteria

Watt, David; Kayis, Berman; Willey, Keith

doi:10.1016/j.ijproman.2009.04.003

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“…civil infrastructure, building and other physical facilities), the term project type mainly refer to public and private sector (Ng, Skitmore 1999;Ye et al 2014). In general, tender evaluation criteria for public and private projects are determined by the client in using them to mirror the uniqueness of construction projects and to ascertain the fluent operation of bidding in a dynamic circumstance characterized by the interplay of participants (Watt et al 2010). To this end can contractor competitiveness be measured effectively (Yan 2011;Wong et al 2000), and the multi-criteria approach be operated smoothly for value of money (Drew, Skitmore 1992;Liu et al 2016).…”

Section: Tender Evaluation Criteriamentioning

confidence: 99%

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Competition Rule of the Multi-Criteria Approach: What Contractors in China Really Want?

Zeng

Wong

2018

Journal of Civil Engineering and Management

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Abstract. Recent years have witnessed the diversifying means of competitive bidding, where the client plays a critical role in the determination of competition rule. It is widely recognized that the competition rule should be placed on a win-win basis to ensure that both the client and contractors are well considered with respect to their interests. Nevertheless, a vast majority of biddings fail to take account of what contractors really want. Using the methods of literature review and content analysis, 34 tender evaluation factors are proposed to compose the competition rule in China. Contractors' opinions on these factors are collected by virtue of questionnaire survey. Based on the Pareto law, it is found that the competition rule encompasses eleven key factors, and the composition varies slightly between public and private sectors. The Hotelling's T test is conducted on those key factors in common. The implication is that contractors can use indifferent factors (e.g., credit rating, construction plan, completeness of bid components, timely payment to workers) to improve competitiveness, while the client may utilize different factors to diversify the competition rule. This paper probably presents an earliest effort put to examine the acceptability of competition rule in the construction context.

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Section: Tender Evaluation Criteriamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the exercise of tender evaluation, bids are examined carefully and benchmarked if needed (Watt et al 2010). This study found that the client's efforts revolve round bid prices, reasonableness of bids and its components.…”

Section: Credit Rating Of Bidders (Ef13) Reasonableness Of Bid and Imentioning

confidence: 99%

Competition Rule of the Multi-Criteria Approach: What Contractors in China Really Want?

Zeng

Wong

2018

Journal of Civil Engineering and Management

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“…The principle established to analyze and evaluate tenders is based on the use of awarding criteria [14]. These criteria must be designed so as be non-discriminatory and linked to the object of the contract.…”

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The Choice of the Best Proposal in Tendering with AHP Method: Case of Procurement of IT Master Plan’s Realization

Diabagaté¹,

Azmani²,

Harzli³

2015

IJITCS

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Abstract-The computer system has become one of the centerpieces in the functioning of organizations hence the importance of an IT (Information Technology) master plan to manage its development. To find a provider for the IT master plan's realization, organizations are increasingly using tendering as the mode of awarding contracts.This article focuses on the use of multi-criteria decision-making method AHP for analysis and evaluation of tenders during the awarding of contracts of IT master plan's realization. To achieve this goal, a painstaking work was realized, on the one hand, for making an inventory of criteria and sub-criteria involved in the evaluation of bids and on the other hand for specifying the degrees of preference for each pair of criteria and each pair of sub-criteria. Finally, a test was performed by using fictitious tenders.The goals of this work are to make available to members of tenders committee a decision support tool for evaluating tenders of IT master plan's realization submitted by bidders and endow the organizations with effective IT master plans in order to increase the performance of their information systems.

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“…defining or characterizing the project out to tender. These must not to be confused with bidder-suitability criteria [24][25][26], which can justify the technical and economic soundness of the tender-ers.…”

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Analysis of the Scoring Formula of Economic Criteria in Public Works Procurement

Bargues¹

2013

IJEBO

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Public works procurement regulates two award procedures from within the same criteria: either the price or a variety of different conditions. Although the question of price may not seem the most important factor to be considered, it is imperative to always be aware of it when bearing in mind the award criteria. Economic scoring formulae (ESF) are numerous and each agency has the authority to determine which will be used for each of their bids, making this article a comparative analysis of all the options. The results show that most formulas give the highest score to the most economic bidder, it is necessary to eliminate the use of formulas that give the highest score to the offers which are closest to the average of all bids submitted. One should always opt for formulas with moderate or strong scoring gradients across various stages or phases, thereby giving more weight to economic analysis, as set out in the various administrative clauses.

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The relative importance of tender evaluation and contractor selection criteria

Cited by 130 publications

References 26 publications

Competition Rule of the Multi-Criteria Approach: What Contractors in China Really Want?

Competition Rule of the Multi-Criteria Approach: What Contractors in China Really Want?

The Choice of the Best Proposal in Tendering with AHP Method: Case of Procurement of IT Master Plan’s Realization

Analysis of the Scoring Formula of Economic Criteria in Public Works Procurement

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