By George K.I. Ang January 2011 Abstract Best Value Procurement is on its way to being adopted as the backbone in professionalising public construction clients in the Netherlands. Today, apart from several private real estate investments all over the country, major public work...
By Marco van der Heijden, Jeroen van de Rijt January 2011 Abstract Problems in the delivery of construction are supply chain issues in the procurement area, and not caused by the complexity of the construction industry. In order to prove this, Best Value...
By Bas Plehn January 2011 Abstract Best value PIPS has been introduced in the Netherlands in the procurement of construction systems. The Water Board De Dommel utilized best value PIPS to select engineering consultant services. The test differed from other Dutch tests in...
By Jeroen van de Rijt, Wiebe Witteveen January 2011 Abstract Best Value Procurement is on its way to being adopted as the backbone in professionalising public construction clients in the Netherlands. Today, apart from several private real estate investments all over the country,...
By Dean Kashiwagi January 2011 Abstract Best Value Procurement/Performance Information Procurement System (BVP/PIPS) has been developed by Dean Kashiwagi and the Performance Based Studies Research Group (PBSRG) from 1991 - 2010. BVP/PIPS is a licensed technology from Arizona State University that includes a...
By Guido J.E. Koreman January 2011 Abstract Ballast Nedam like any other business in the industry encounters failure due to purchasing based on low cost. Research shows that these tend to arise because of poor planning, non-compliance to agreements and incomplete project evaluations...
By Gard van Hulzen January 2011 Abstract The city of s-Hertogenbosch was introduced to the best value process by Heijmans and their engineering consultant group Breijn B.V. Under the leadership of Breijn, s-Hertogenbosch visionaries, and the assistance of researchers from Hogesxchool Zuyd, a...
By Jeroen van de Rijt, Wiebe Witteveen, Carlita Vis, Sicco Santema January 2011 Abstract Rijkswaterstaat, part of the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and EnvironmentI has used the best value PIPS philosophy to procure infrastructure projects worth circa $ 800M. This is a case...
By Jeroen van de Rijt, Michael Hompes February 2010 Abstract This paper gives an overview of the Dutch Construction industry and elaborates further on its use of performance information. After giving an overview of the Dutch construction industry depicting size, major contractors, growth,...
By Kenneth T. Sullivan, John Savicky February 2010 Abstract Performance information has been defined as “the set of metrics used to quantify both the efficiency and effectiveness of actions (Neely 1995).” From this definition, past performance information can be extrapolated to entail those...