Optimization for bidder profitability and contractor selection

Cost Engineering (Morgantown, West Virginia)

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 31-41

  Singh, Amarjit ^a   Shoura, Max M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b Carter and Burgess ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; COSTS; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

PROFITABILITY;

CONTRACTS;

EID: 0032083413     PISSN: 02749696     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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