Introduction: The construction and infrastructure industries in Egypt have recently experienced huge growth, which of course requires methodical planning, full feasibility studies, wise selections project executors' teams, including engineering design offices, management agencies, contracting firms. Consequently, to guarantee achieving the predetermined designs objectives, a careful assessment ...

Construction contractors have big influences upon projects and their successes. Therefore, it is quite critical to select a qualified contractor in the process of construction management. A competent construction contractor is one of the indispensable conditions of a proper process and completion of a construction project. There are several theoretical frameworks or models applied in the evalua...

Purpose The purpose of this study was to prioritize the appropriate generic contractor selection criteria for Engineering–Procurement–Construction (EPC) projects in construction industry. Design/methodology/approach Proceeding from a review previous studies and validation by small group experts, preliminary set 16 first identified. This followed three rounds Delphi surveys: firstly, with 64 exp...

Currently competitive world outsourcing is one of the important strategies used by modern enterprises. Contractor selection is characterized as a multi-criteria decision-making problem that comprises tangible and intangible factors. Previous contractor selection techniques do not consider strategic perspective. This paper applied quantified SWOT in the context of contractor selection under a fu...

Contractor selection is one of the most important aspects in construction contract. This paper suggests importance of various multi criteria decision making models for contractor selection problem in Indian context. The study includes identifying the different criteria for bid evaluation and the means by which different decision making models may be used to evaluate the contractors with respect...