Contractor selection model for development international non-governmental organization

الملخص EN

Contractor selection is the process of selecting the most appropriate contractor to implement the project as specified so that the achievement of the best value for time, quality and money is ensured.

International non-governmental organizations (INGOs) are working in most of poor developing countries for purpose of helping these countries to achieve the millennium development goals (MDGs) defined by United Nation.

Huge budget of these organizations is spent in infrastructure projects using contractors.

Construction clients as well as INGOs are becoming more aware of the fact that selection of a contractor based on tender price alone is quite risky and may lead to the failure of the project in terms of time delay and poor quality standards.

So, to reduce those risks a short list of contractors based on evaluation criteria is suggested.

Evaluation of contractors based on multiple criteria is, therefore, becoming essential.

This paper presents a trial model for evaluating contractors in a systematic procedure based on criteria to evaluate the capability of a contractor to deliver the project as per the INGO requirements.

The criteria are drafted based on previous researches as well as author's background.

The criteria defined with its relative importance based on analysis of questionnaire filled by consultant engineers, contractors as well as big construction companies.

The proposed model is not intended to supplant the work of technical evaluation of each tender, but rather to help them make quality evaluations of the available candidate contractors from predefined evaluated short list.

The proposed system for dealing with contractors to improve the quality of projects implementation presented in this paper.