Scoring rules and abnormally low bids criteria in construction tenders: a taxonomic review

In the global construction context, the best value or most economically advantageous tender is becoming awidespread approach for contractor selection, as an alternative to other traditional awarding criteria such asthe lowest price. In these multi-attribute tenders, the owner or auctioneer solicits...

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Autores: Ballesteros-Pérez, Pablo|||0000-0002-4629-9664, Pellicer, Eugenio|||0000-0001-9100-0644, González-Cruz, María-Carmen|||0000-0002-6987-5732, Skitmore, Martín
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Fecha de publicación:2015
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
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Idioma:inglés
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Palavra-chave:Bidding
Competitiveness
International comparison
Scoring rule
Tenderin
PROYECTOS DE INGENIERIA
INGENIERIA DEL TERRENO
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Scoring rules and abnormally low bids criteria in construction tenders: a taxonomic review
title Scoring rules and abnormally low bids criteria in construction tenders: a taxonomic review
spellingShingle Scoring rules and abnormally low bids criteria in construction tenders: a taxonomic review
Ballesteros-Pérez, Pablo|||0000-0002-4629-9664
Bidding
Competitiveness
International comparison
Scoring rule
Tenderin
PROYECTOS DE INGENIERIA
INGENIERIA DEL TERRENO
title_short Scoring rules and abnormally low bids criteria in construction tenders: a taxonomic review
title_full Scoring rules and abnormally low bids criteria in construction tenders: a taxonomic review
title_fullStr Scoring rules and abnormally low bids criteria in construction tenders: a taxonomic review
title_full_unstemmed Scoring rules and abnormally low bids criteria in construction tenders: a taxonomic review
title_sort Scoring rules and abnormally low bids criteria in construction tenders: a taxonomic review
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Ballesteros-Pérez, Pablo|||0000-0002-4629-9664
Pellicer, Eugenio|||0000-0001-9100-0644
González-Cruz, María-Carmen|||0000-0002-6987-5732
Skitmore, Martín
author Ballesteros-Pérez, Pablo|||0000-0002-4629-9664
author_facet Ballesteros-Pérez, Pablo|||0000-0002-4629-9664
Pellicer, Eugenio|||0000-0001-9100-0644
González-Cruz, María-Carmen|||0000-0002-6987-5732
Skitmore, Martín
author_role author
author2 Pellicer, Eugenio|||0000-0001-9100-0644
González-Cruz, María-Carmen|||0000-0002-6987-5732
Skitmore, Martín
author2_role author
author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Departamento de Ingeniería de la Construcción y de Proyectos de Ingeniería Civil
Departamento de Proyectos de Ingeniería
Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería de Caminos, Canales y Puertos
Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Industrial
Grupo de Gestión del Proceso Proyecto-Construcción
Centro de Investigación en Dirección de Proyectos, Innovación y Sostenibilidad (PRINS)
Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politècnica de València Riunet
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Bidding
Competitiveness
International comparison
Scoring rule
Tenderin
PROYECTOS DE INGENIERIA
INGENIERIA DEL TERRENO
topic Bidding
Competitiveness
International comparison
Scoring rule
Tenderin
PROYECTOS DE INGENIERIA
INGENIERIA DEL TERRENO
description In the global construction context, the best value or most economically advantageous tender is becoming awidespread approach for contractor selection, as an alternative to other traditional awarding criteria such asthe lowest price. In these multi-attribute tenders, the owner or auctioneer solicits proposals containing both aprice bid and additional technical features. Once the proposals are received, each bidder’s price bid is givenan economic score according to a scoring rule, generally called an economic scoring formula (ESF) and a techni-cal score according to pre-specified criteria. Eventually, the contract is awarded to the bidder with the highestweighted overall score (economic + technical). However, economic scoring formula selection by auctioneers isinvariably and paradoxically a highly intuitive process in practice, involving few theoretical or empiricalconsiderations, despite having been considered traditionally and mistakenly as objective, due to its mathematicalnature. This paper provides a taxonomic classification of a wide variety of ESFs and abnormally low bids criteria(ALBC) gathered in several countries with different tendering approaches. Practical implications concern theoptimal design of price scoring rules in construction contract tenders, as well as future analyses of the effectsof the ESF and ALBC on competitive bidding behaviour.
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