From the course: Construction Management: Project Delivery Methods

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Qualifications-based selection

Qualifications-based selection

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Qualifications-based selection

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- Construction companies are used to being selected based on low bid. Yes, we've always liked to use the term best bid or most qualified bid, but let's face it. Under design bid build, it's usually about price. The clients that I worked for when I was running that street improvement construction company were mostly government agencies, and according to them, they always selected the most qualified bid, not just the low bid, but in reality the most qualified bid was defined as the lowest bid that had been correctly prepared and submitted by a licensed contractor that included a valid bid bond. That's not setting the bar very high on qualifications. There was no basis to include past performance or experience in evaluating a bid proposal. Even on private work, I had clients who developed select or preferred lists of contractors based on past history and performance, and that did limit the number of contractors who got to submit a bid, but in the end, it still most often came down to…

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