Procurement Issues

Hampton, Delon

doi:10.1061/(asce)9742-597x(1994)10:6(45)

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“…Foremost is the recognition that two distinct fields of knowledge are needed to contract out: contract administration knowledge and technical knowledge related to the tasks being contracted out. Competent contract administrators understand the varied qualifications-based processes for selecting consultants (Hampton, 1994;Hattan & Lalani, 1997;Kasma, 1987), the keys to negotiating contracts (Dudley, 1990;Lee & Hayles, 1989;Shuker, 1984;Woodrich, 1993), and the types of contracts suitable for different projects (Sternbach, 1988). Competent technical project managers, on the other hand, have advanced training in the relevant tasks at hand, such as transportation planning, engineering design, environmental assessment, construction management, and so on.…”

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Effects of Contracting Out Engineering Services Over Time in a State Department of Transportation

Gen

Kingsley

2007

Public Works Management & Policy

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Perhaps the most prevalent form of privatization, in terms of incidents of its use, is contracting out for services. This is especially true in state departments of transportation (DOTs), which have seen a rapidly growing reliance on contracted professional services in recent years. With this growth has come a variety of managerial issues that speak to the efficacy of this mode of service production. In this article we identify and analyze these issues by first reviewing the literature on managing contracted professional services, with a focus on the experiences of DOTs. We complement the review with an in-depth, multicase examination of the experiences of one state DOT over the span of a decade, to better understand their changing conditions, motives, and impacts of large-scale contracting out. We conclude that problems associated with contracting out could be avoided with planned changes in procedures, organizational structures, and human resource demands.

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Section: Managing Consultantsmentioning

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Effects of Contracting Out Engineering Services Over Time in a State Department of Transportation

Gen

Kingsley

2007

Public Works Management & Policy

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“…Several scholars have pointed out that selection of the lowest bid, not the best value alternative, is a major weakness of traditional procurement methods (Hampton, 1994;Walker and Hampson, 2008;Hall, 2010). In addition, use of traditional construction procurement methods causes environmental degradation, eventually resulting in impaired quality of life for supporting communities.…”

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Sustainable procurement in the Canadian construction industry: current practices, drivers and opportunities

Ruparathna

Hewage

2015

Journal of Cleaner Production

137

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“…The LCA method was introduced to the construction industry in 1970s [14,82] in both structural engineering and project management. In the past 30 years, it has developed another main stream of assessment theory in the building and construction industry [3,6,7,15,16,17,20,21,23,32,34,35,36,[44][45][46]49,50,[51][52][53][54][55][56][57]61,62,63,[66][67][68][69]77,78,83,[90][91][92][93][94][95][96]98,105]. For implementing the concept of LCA in project management, one essential is to benchmark construction processes; significant research and development progress have been achieved already.…”

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A multicriteria lifespan energy efficiency approach to intelligent building assessment

Chen

Clements‐Croome

Hong

et al. 2006

Energy and Buildings

111

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This paper presents a multicriteria decision-making model for lifespan energy efficiency assessment of intelligent buildings (IBs). The decision-making model called IBAssessor is developed using an analytic network process (ANP) method and a set of lifespan performance indicators for IBs selected by a new quantitative approach called energy-time consumption index (ETI). In order to improve the quality of decisionmaking, the authors of this paper make use of previous research achievements including a lifespan sustainable business model, the Asian IB Index, and a number of relevant publications. Practitioners can use the IBAssessor ANP model at different stages of an IB lifespan for either engineering or business oriented assessments. Finally, this paper presents an experimental case study to demonstrate how to use IBAssessor ANP model to solve real-world design tasks.

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Procurement Issues

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Effects of Contracting Out Engineering Services Over Time in a State Department of Transportation

Effects of Contracting Out Engineering Services Over Time in a State Department of Transportation

Sustainable procurement in the Canadian construction industry: current practices, drivers and opportunities

A multicriteria lifespan energy efficiency approach to intelligent building assessment

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