https://doi.org/10.24928/2023/0205

Collaborative Dialogue During the Pre-Tendering Phase to Maximize Project Value Generation

Valeria Vecchio¹, Abbey Dale Abellanosa², Bernadette Konwat³, Yu Wei⁴ & Farook Hamzeh⁵

¹ M.Sc. Student, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, CA, [email protected], orcid.org/0000-0002-6244-194X
²2 Ph.D. Student, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, CA, [email protected], orcid.org/0000-0002-2790-4347
³ M.Eng. Student, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, CA, [email protected], orcid.org/0000-0001-9302-2804
⁴M.Sc. Student, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, CA, [email protected], orcid.org/0000-0003-4194-8909
⁵5 Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, [email protected], orcid.org/0000-0002-3986-9534

Abstract

The construction industry has widely adopted traditional project delivery methods, such as design-bid-build, to develop conventional construction projects, where only one main contractor is granted the project contract. Selecting only one main contractor for the project results in the waste of valuable ideas coming from the rest of the bidders who participated in the tendering process but did not win the bid. These ideas, coming from the contractors that lost the bid, are usually not considered during the project execution, even though they could increase the value of a project, shorten the schedule, and reduce costs. As an alternative to solve the current gap of lost creativity and ideas coming from contractors that were not awarded the project contract, this study will explore the workarounds to promote partnership between key stakeholders during the pre-tendering phase by involving multiple contractors instead of a single construction project, to develop innovative ideas that could maximize the value of a construction project. The importance of collaboration and co-creation of value is widely emphasized in lean construction. Experts in the construction industry with a background in collaborative delivery were surveyed and interviewed to understand their opinion on the proposed topic. The experts from both backgrounds concluded that involving multiple contractors instead of just one main contractor is a feasible idea, but it will take effort from all the stakeholders to compromise on this type of agreement. The benefits and constraints of implementing collaborative dialogue are further discussed in the following sections of this study.

Keywords

Value generation, project definition phase, key stakeholder engagement, procurement strategy

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Reference

Vecchio, V. , Abellanosa, A. D. , Konwat, B. , Wei, Y. & Hamzeh, F. 2023. Collaborative Dialogue During the Pre-Tendering Phase to Maximize Project Value Generation, Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC31) , 333-343. doi.org/10.24928/2023/0205

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