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Decision Criteria and Their Subjectivity in Construction Procurement Selection

Construction Economics and Building

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Title Decision Criteria and Their Subjectivity in Construction Procurement Selection
 
Creator Ng, Thomas
Luu, Duc
Chen, Swee
 
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Description Employing a suitable construction procurement system is crucial to project success. However,many clients select procurement systems in a cursory manner and some clientseven use a specific procurement system by default without deliberate choice. A systematicmethod for procurement selection would help clients to arrive at more informed decisions.The first step towards a systematic procurement selection method is to identify decisioncriteria pertinent to assessing the alternatives. This paper identifies the commonly consideredcriteria for procurement selection through a qualitative survey in Australia. The subjectivityof the identified criteria is considered and the effects on procurement selectionare examined. The results indicate that speed, complexity, flexibility, responsibility, qualitylevel, risk allocation, and price competition cannot be easily gauged by objective means,and a misperception of the degree of fulfilment of any of these criteria could affect theoutcome of procurement selection.
 
Publisher UTS ePRESS
 
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Date 2012-11-15
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Identifier http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/AJCEB/article/view/2888
10.5130/AJCEB.v2i1.2888
 
Source Construction Economics and Building; Vol 2, No 1 (2002): AJCEB; 70-80
2204-9029
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/AJCEB/article/view/2888/3066
 
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Rights Copyright (c) 2002 Thomas Ng, Duc Luu, Swee Chen
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