Tender documents often lack clarity and are incomplete, making it difficult for contractors to appropriately price projects. A general view is that the quality of tender has declined, which affected bidding strategies contractors. However, academic literature focused mainly upon views To obtain a more balanced tendering practices, in-depth interviews were conducted with 10 practitioners (client...

Application of model base in group decision making that makes up a Group Decision Support System (GDSS) is of paramount importance. Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is the multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) that has been applied in GDSS. In order to be effectively used in GDSS, AHP needs to be customized so that it is more user friendly with ease of used features. In this paper, we propose a...

The theme of this conference, ‘New Days, New Ways’ is very appropriate and timely given the nature of the challenges currently facing the Australian Public Service (APS). It could be argued that the APS has been steadily evolving towards a more private sector orientation over the last decade or so more so recently as a consequence of the momentum of the National Competition Policy reforms See I...

1 1 Introduction The London bus routes market provides an early example of the use of a combinatorial auction format in public procurement. This market covers about 800 routes serving an area of 1,630 square kilometers and more than 3.5 million passengers per day. It is valued at 600 million Pounds per year (roughly US $900 million). Prior to deregulation, bus services in the Greater London are...

Abstract The implementation of e-tenders requires readiness from the aspect human resources, technological and management capabilities organizations. To find out factors that influence success e-tender for construction services in Palu, this research was conducted by involving stakeholders involved e-tendering, namely consultants, contractors project owners. Data were collected on basis questio...