...Malintha H. Fernando; B.A.K.S. Perera; K.D.M. Gimhani Purpose The common procurement methods in the construction industry often face difficulties in addressing the socio-economic advancement in the societies they are building. In response, innovative procurement approaches, including social...

... for predicting the number of bidders in upcoming tenders. It should be noted that Singapore public sector procurement of construction services was selected mainly due to availability of a rich collection of project datasets, totalling above 900 projects. Despite the exploratory nature of this present study...

...Piyumi Nisansala Thennakoon; Suranga Jayasena; Akila Pramodh Rathnasinghe; Anushika Ekanayake Purpose Unsolicited proposals (USPs) play a significant role within public–private partnerships (PPPs) as a procurement method for initiating infrastructure development projects. Despite their potential...

...Innocent Chigozie Osuizugbo Purpose The construction projects tends to perform poorly. Non-integration of buildability into the project procurement process is one of the reasons for the observed poor performance. To address this issue and close the gap in the existing knowledge, this paper...

... by the ambiguities around its supply chain. Hence, the purpose of this study is twofold: to identify the OC project delivery models, the limitations in their procurement approach to facilitate the resilience of the supply chain and interventions to promote supply chain resilience (SCR) and to identify the gaps...

... of innovative public procurement schemes to support sustainable building renovation projects. These blueprints for procurement innovation can support similar efforts in other countries. Design/methodology/approach This study is based on a longitudinal case study using interviews with primary stakeholders...

...Fei J. Ying; Nan Zhao; John Tookey Purpose Best value procurement (BVP) has been recognized for some time as offering significant opportunities to advance process excellence in the construction sector. As an innovative approach to strategic procurement, BVP has attracted attention from the New...

... the factors that influence the total factor productivity (TFP) by regressing the TFP across firms of the construction industry on a variety of extrinsic factors. Second, at the firm level, the authors extracted actual innovative firms from a large amount of public procurement individual data. The authors...

...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...

... Emerald Publishing Limited 2020 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Procurement Construction industry Construction management Bidding strategy Bidding competitiveness The construction industry is a leading industry in the world economy system and is widely...

... as they identify and reduce unbalanced bidding at the procurement stage. This paper aims to establish a convenient and reliable method to assist in identifying and reduce unbalanced bidding. The main contributions of this paper are as follows: the problem of identifying unbalanced bidding is considered...

... in the tender offers. Despite the broad support for the defined criteria, there were some differences in the way the criteria were interpreted by the public procurement team and by the tenderers. Despite these differences, no legal claims were filed in court. Practical implications Further development...

... across projects (Jansson et al., 2015). Therefore, project-based firms need to manage both project- and business-level practices to facilitate innovations (Gann and Salter, 2000 ; Jansson et al., 2015). Rami Sariola can be contacted at: rami.sariola@tut.fi Procurement...

... investments in explorative activities and exploitation through continuous developments from project to project. In design–bid–build contracts, the client and consultant often miss opportunities to explore new technical solutions that rely on contractor competencies. Early procurement of contractors (e.g...

...James Hastie; Monty Sutrisna; Charles Egbu Purpose This paper aims to disseminate the knowledge integration process modelling throughout the phases of the early contractor involvement (ECI) procurement methodology, to optimise the benefit of ECI procurement method. The development of the model...

... Procurement Optimization Supply chain management Logistics Construction material Cost modelling Logistics optimisation and its variations have found numerous applications in business. Some researchers (Table I) in construction and project areas have used logistics optimisation in a specific...

...-based procurement procedure. In agency theory, dealing appropriately with the uncertainty and opportunism that results from information asymmetry is an essential precondition for successful procurement. Design/methodology/approach – The procurement procedure analysed is the Performance Information...

... the literature by Peansupap and Walker (2006) . More recently, common measures for improving constructability have been studied via review (Wong et al., 2007). This is but an indicative sample. The oft‐cited Latham (1993, 1994) reports were quite influential in procurement terms, raising...

... with a consideration of the interface between market and procurement strategies. As is well known, within the systems approach, a system is seen as a set of objects with relationships between them and their attributes; furthermore, any system exists within an environment composed of objects which...

... criterion. 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 processes take place: 1. contractor prequalification...