A decision support tool for construction bidding

Construction Innovation

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 111-124

  Marzouk, M ^a   Moselhi, O ^a  

^a Civil and Environmental Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Analytic hierarchy process; Competitive bidding; Evaluation of bid proposals; Markup; Mlti attribute decision support

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993012246     PISSN: 14714175     EISSN: 14770857     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14714170310814882     Document Type: Article

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