Guest Editor’s Introduction to the Special Issue: Best Value Procurement in the Netherlands

12 May Guest Editor’s Introduction to the Special Issue: Best Value Procurement in the Netherlands

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, major public work projects representing more than US$ 1000 million investment costs, are being run by managing performance information and value. The application of the best value Performance Information Procurement System (PIPS) in several project practices is presented in this special edition of the Journal, dedicated to the Dutch developments on this field during the past 7 years. A few interesting events and developments were apparent in Dutch construction practice prior to introducing best value procurement PIPS as a vision in 2004.