Strategic information requirements in contract bidding: Framework for development of a decision support system

Civil Engineering Systems

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 121-139

  Couzens, Alan ^a   Skitmore, Martin ^b   Thorpe, Tony ^a   Mcaffer, Ronald ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adjudication; Contract bidding; Decision support systems; Executive information systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002039162     PISSN: 02630257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02630259608970191     Document Type: Article

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