BUILD A MULTI-CRITERIA EVALUATION MODEL FOR THE SELECTION OF A CONTRACTOR IN CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS

Civil

Abstract

The current study provides a methodological framework to regulate the perceptions of decision-makers to take various criteria including increases Foundation benefit and provide them tool supportive of the resolution represented technology FAHP)) to choose the appropriate contractor so that the guide is the right choice without a bias factor, or the existence of personal interests and in foggy conditions. This technique can be applied in the early stages of the referral process to avoid non-qualified contractors participate in the competition for the business process at hand, and according to the employer's requirements. It was extracted most of the criteria that could affect the process of selecting the optimal tender by conducting personal interviews with relevant subject matter of the owners of expertise as well as a field survey in order to identify the main criteria and sub relative importance of each criterion that can be relied upon in the process of evaluating and selecting the optimal contractor. It includes the main criteria (the financial side, the technical side, the management side, the legal side and the reputation of the contractor, the environmental side) and all the standard of the main criteria contain sub-criteria its example the financial side that contains five criteria a subset (the bid amount, the financial situation of the contractor, insurance work, the availability of financial resources, the burden of current business).