Joint-Venture Contractor Selection Using Competitive and Collaborative Criteria with Uncertainty

© 2018 American Society of Civil Engineers. Selecting an appropriate joint venture contractor (JVC) is paramount to the success of large-scale infrastructure projects. The purpose of this paper is to develop a unified approach for JVC selection. The proposed approach integrates competitive informati...

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Main Authors: Liang, R., Zhang, J., Wu, Changzhi, Sheng, Z., Wang, X.
Format: Journal Article
Published: American Society of Civil Engineers 2019
Online Access:http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP170104612
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/74701
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author Liang, R.
Zhang, J.
Wu, Changzhi
Sheng, Z.
Wang, X.
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Zhang, J.
Wu, Changzhi
Sheng, Z.
Wang, X.
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description © 2018 American Society of Civil Engineers. Selecting an appropriate joint venture contractor (JVC) is paramount to the success of large-scale infrastructure projects. The purpose of this paper is to develop a unified approach for JVC selection. The proposed approach integrates competitive information and collaborative information, focusing on the hesitant fuzzy variables of the bid evaluators. An optimization model is established based on the maximizing deviation (MD) principle to determine the criterion weights objectively. Then, the weights of the bid evaluators are obtained through calculating the relative closeness coefficients of each bid evaluator and the group from the JVCs to the fuzzy positive-ideal solution (FPIS). All the potential JVCs are ranked through minimizing the deviation model based on the fuzzy technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) approach. A case study of the JVC selection process for the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge (a large-scale island and tunnel engineering project) was conducted to illustrate the proposed approach. The results showed that, compared with the existing methods, the proposed method can select the contractors with good collaborative performance. This is important for the practice, because collaborative criteria are reflected in the key criteria currently used in JVC evaluation and selection. The findings from this study can help the JVC manager to identify a JVC with good collaborative performance and control the project risk from the initial stage.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-747012022-10-27T07:00:18Z Joint-Venture Contractor Selection Using Competitive and Collaborative Criteria with Uncertainty Liang, R. Zhang, J. Wu, Changzhi Sheng, Z. Wang, X. © 2018 American Society of Civil Engineers. Selecting an appropriate joint venture contractor (JVC) is paramount to the success of large-scale infrastructure projects. The purpose of this paper is to develop a unified approach for JVC selection. The proposed approach integrates competitive information and collaborative information, focusing on the hesitant fuzzy variables of the bid evaluators. An optimization model is established based on the maximizing deviation (MD) principle to determine the criterion weights objectively. Then, the weights of the bid evaluators are obtained through calculating the relative closeness coefficients of each bid evaluator and the group from the JVCs to the fuzzy positive-ideal solution (FPIS). All the potential JVCs are ranked through minimizing the deviation model based on the fuzzy technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) approach. A case study of the JVC selection process for the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge (a large-scale island and tunnel engineering project) was conducted to illustrate the proposed approach. The results showed that, compared with the existing methods, the proposed method can select the contractors with good collaborative performance. This is important for the practice, because collaborative criteria are reflected in the key criteria currently used in JVC evaluation and selection. The findings from this study can help the JVC manager to identify a JVC with good collaborative performance and control the project risk from the initial stage. 2019 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/74701 10.1061/(ASCE)CO.1943-7862.0001588 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP170104612 American Society of Civil Engineers restricted
spellingShingle Liang, R.
Zhang, J.
Wu, Changzhi
Sheng, Z.
Wang, X.
Joint-Venture Contractor Selection Using Competitive and Collaborative Criteria with Uncertainty
title Joint-Venture Contractor Selection Using Competitive and Collaborative Criteria with Uncertainty
title_full Joint-Venture Contractor Selection Using Competitive and Collaborative Criteria with Uncertainty
title_fullStr Joint-Venture Contractor Selection Using Competitive and Collaborative Criteria with Uncertainty
title_full_unstemmed Joint-Venture Contractor Selection Using Competitive and Collaborative Criteria with Uncertainty
title_short Joint-Venture Contractor Selection Using Competitive and Collaborative Criteria with Uncertainty
title_sort joint-venture contractor selection using competitive and collaborative criteria with uncertainty
url http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP170104612
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/74701