...Jennifer Charlson; Nenpin Dimka Purpose The purpose of this study is to gain insight into procurement routes and forms of contract used for volumetric offsite manufacturing (VOSM) in the housing sector of the UK West Midlands. Seminal literature and government reports have established...

... these issues. Design/methodology/approach Nowadays, clients require tenderers to submit both bidding prices and contract duration. This bidding method is called an optimal price‐time bidding model, the details of which are investigated in this paper, using 24 Hong Kong private and public foundation price...

... for a tenderer to win a contract will be increased if he offers lower tender price and gains higher technical score. In this context, the decision‐making problem for the contractor is to identify its competence requirement in order to achieve the best tender score to meet the client's multiple selection criteria...

... method can be utilized as a successful tool in contractor selection problem. Mohamed Marzouk can be contacted at: mm_marzouk@yahoo.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Procurement Decision making Contracts Supplier evaluation During the tendering phase, two essential...