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Alarcón, L F, Rodríguez, A and Mourgues, C (2012) Impact of Machine-Failure Costs on Equipment Replacement Policies: Tunneling Company Case Study. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 138(06), 767–74.

Deshpande, A S, Salem, O M and Miller, R A (2012) Analysis of the Higher-Order Partial Correlation between CII Best Practices and Performance of the Design Phase in Fast-Track Industrial Projects. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 138(06), 716–24.

Hegazy, T and Menesi, W (2012) Heuristic Method for Satisfying Both Deadlines and Resource Constraints. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 138(06), 688–96.

Koo, K and Park, S (2012) GA-Based Fuel-Efficient Transfer Path Selection Model for Delivering Construction Materials. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 138(06), 725–32.

Oates, D and Sullivan, K T (2012) Postoccupancy Energy Consumption Survey of Arizona’s LEED New Construction Population. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 138(06), 742–50.

Petroutsatou, K, Georgopoulos, E, Lambropoulos, S and Pantouvakis, J P (2012) Early Cost Estimating of Road Tunnel Construction Using Neural Networks. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 138(06), 679–87.

Ranasinghe, U, Ruwanpura, J and Liu, X (2012) Streamlining the Construction Productivity Improvement Process with the Proposed Role of a Construction Productivity Improvement Officer. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 138(06), 697–706.

San Cristóbal, J R (2012) Contractor Selection Using Multicriteria Decision-Making Methods. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 138(06), 751–8.

  • Type: Journal Article
  • Keywords: Contractors; Construction management; Decision making; Contractor selection; Multicriteria methods; Construction management;
  • ISBN/ISSN: 0733-9364
  • URL: https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)CO.1943-7862.0000488
  • Abstract:
    Contractors play a vital role in the overall performance of a project. Selecting the right contractor for the right project is the most crucial challenge for any construction client. Numerous and often conflicting objectives and alternatives, such as tender price, completion date, and experience, need to be considered. Recently, to assist owners in making decisions, there has been a trend away from a “lowest-price wins” principle and subjective judgement to a multicriteria selection approach in the selection of contractors for construction projects. In the autonomous region of Cantabria, in the north of Spain, increased project complexity and higher requirements have recently demanded the use of multicriteria decision-making methods for contractor selection. With this aim, two multicriteria decision methods, the technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) and vlsekriterijumska optimizacija I kompromisno resenje (VIKOR) methods, are applied to the selection of a contractor for the road building project “La Braguía” undertaken during 2002. The results show that one of the contractors is the highest ranked by both methods. Being the highest ranked alternative by the TOPSIS method indicates that this contractor is the best in terms of the ranking index. In addition, being the highest ranked alternative by the VIKOR method indicates that it is the closest to the ideal solution.

Sing, C, Love, P E D and Tam, C M (2012) Stock-Flow Model for Forecasting Labor Supply. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 138(06), 707–15.

Tatari, O and Kucukvar, M (2012) Eco-Efficiency of Construction Materials: Data Envelopment Analysis. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 138(06), 733–41.

Wang, C, Liu, M, Hsiang, S M and Leming, M L (2012) Causes and Penalties of Variation: Case Study of a Precast Concrete Slab Production Facility. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 138(06), 775–85.

Xie, H, AbouRizk, S and Zou, J (2012) Quantitative Method for Updating Cost Contingency throughout Project Execution. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 138(06), 759–66.