The relative importance of tender evaluation and contractor selection criteria

International Journal of Project Management

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 51-60

  Watt, D J ^a,b   Kayis, B ^a   Willey, K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b DownerEDI Rail   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Contractor selection; Discrete choice models; Experimental designs; Tender evaluation criteria

Indexed keywords

COMMON CRITERIA; CONTRACTOR SELECTION; DISCRETE CHOICE MODELS; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; PROJECT PERFORMANCE; RELATIVE IMPORTANCE; TECHNICAL EXPERTISE; TENDER EVALUATION;

DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; STATISTICS;

CONTRACTORS;

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; DISCRETE CHOICE ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; MODELING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 70549107719     PISSN: 02637863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijproman.2009.04.003     Document Type: Article

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