.... Despite a growing awareness of this problem, empirical evidence relating to the integration of WHS-related costs into tendering processes and their subsequent impact on pricing in tender prices remains limited. This study aims to investigate the extent to which Ghanaian contractors consider WHS items when...

... formulation, aiding them in implementing revisions that align with the dynamic requirements of bidding procedures. Bidding period Competitive bidding Tendering National Procurement Agency (NPA) National competitive bidding (NCB) This paper is structured as follows. First, it provides...

... decision Procurement management Construction management Tendering Expert systems Fuzzy logic Therefore, the aim of this research is to fill this gap by proposing a mixed qualitative–quantitative approach. This system is capable of considering both quantitative and qualitative factors while...

... tendering, they need to be able to deal with different bidding situations successfully. This includes being able to evaluate their proposed projects or their invitations to bid before accepting them and before committing themselves to the bid preparation processes. Bid preparation processes are often costly...

... Procurement Contractor workers Tendering Subcontractoring Clients 2012 Awards for Excellence Article Type: 2012 Awards for Excellence From: Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, Volume 20, Issue 1. The following article was selected...

... conditions (e.g. Flanagan and Norman, 1985 ; Runeson and Skitmore, 1999). Bee Lan Oo can be contacted at: bee.oo@sydney.edu.au © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Firm capacity Winning bid Bidding trend Construction industry Companies Tendering There has been no apparent...

... Publishing Limited 2010 Tendering Neural nets Thermodynamic properties a preference‐uncertainty trade‐off analysis (Ahmad and Minkarah, 1987), by which the attitudes of a bidder towards risk and subjective value judgement are captured; rule‐based expert systems and ANN (Li and Love...

... of this paper is to show how these technologies have been adopted on the pre‐tender planning for a typical construction project. Design/methodology/approach The research methodology taken was an “action research” approach where the researchers and developers were actively involved in the production...

... Limited 2007 If a contractor opts to bid, the pricing of the bid normally comprises a two‐stage formulation process consisting of a cost estimate and subsequent mark‐up that is often expressed as a percentage over the estimated cost. Tendering Mathematical modelling Construction industry...

...Martin Skitmore; Derek Drew The financial management of the construction procurement process is dependent on the performance of the managers involved. This paper describes an analysis of pre‐tender building price forecasts (estimates) made by a Hong Kong consulting organisation for a series of 89...

...FARZAD KHOSROWSHAHI The way in which clients or their consultants undertake to select firms to tender for a given project is a highly complex process and can be very problematic. This is also true for public authorities as, for them, ‘compulsory competitive tendering’ is a relatively new concept...

...GARY D. HOLT; PAUL O. OLOMOLAIYE; FRANK C. HARRIS The procedural and administrative aspects of UK tendering have remained largely unaltered for decades but this may soon change in light of the recent review of the construction sector, headed by Sir Michael Latham. This paper presents findings...