Procurement Systems: A Guide to Best Practice in Construction

✍ Scribed by Steve Rowlinson, Peter McDermott

• Publisher: Spon Press
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 317
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Procurement Systems details the whole spectrum of procurement issues in the construction industry, starting with the client /customer and running through managerial, cultural and IT-based issues. The book commences with an overveiw of previous work and a section on selection criteria is provided to enable practitioners to make their choices of procurement form. Importantly, perfromance comparisons of different procurement forms are discussed and the main emphasis of the book is to highlight best practice based on the most up-to-date research. One chapter deals specifically with developmentally orientated procurement issues in NICs (newly industrialised countries), where best practice is assessed from a different set of perspectives. The authors contributing to this book are among the most highly respected and eminent in the field.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
List of contributors......Page 8
Foreword......Page 14
Preface......Page 16
Abbreviations......Page 20
PART I Introduction to procurement systems......Page 23
1 Strategic and emergent issues in construction procurement......Page 24
2 A definition of procurement systems......Page 45
PART II Organisational issues in procurement systems......Page 71
3 Organising the project procurement process......Page 72
4 Organisational design......Page 95
5 Organisational learning as a vehicle for improved building procurement......Page 130
PART III Emerging issues in procurement systems......Page 149
6 Cultural issues......Page 150
7 From conventionally orientated to developmentally orientated procurement systems: experiences from South Africa......Page 169
8 Use of World Wide Web technologies and procurement process implications......Page 188
PART IV Procurement systems in practice......Page 211
9 Applying multiple project procurement methods to a portfolio of infrastructure projects......Page 212
10 Multiple performance criteria for evaluating construction contractors......Page 232
11 Applying partnering in the supply chain......Page 253
12 Selection criteria......Page 275
Appendix I-Procurement games-a learning process......Page 296
Index......Page 305