The importance of preliminaries items

The items found in the preliminaries section of a bill of quantities are usually the most difficult to price and would produce the greatest variation in prices with each contractor having his own idea of pricing preliminaries. Not all preliminary items need to be priced, some are remain unpriced. Th...

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Main Author: Abdul Ghani, Norhisham
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2006
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description The items found in the preliminaries section of a bill of quantities are usually the most difficult to price and would produce the greatest variation in prices with each contractor having his own idea of pricing preliminaries. Not all preliminary items need to be priced, some are remain unpriced. The aim of the study to understand the preliminaries item and identify mandatory items in selected project that should be priced by contractors. The findings will give benefits to contractor as strategies to price preliminaries accordingly and accurately. The study conducted with reference to the selected group of contractor who has vast experiences in tender pricing. The methodology adopted for the study includes interviews with contractor and industry wide questionnaire survey among the contractors that involved in JKR projects. The data collected were analysed using content analysis method and using appropriate statistical method such as frequency analysis and relative index method. The study has determined what the items are considered as mandatory items that should be price by contractor and the strategies in pricing preliminaries as a guide. Apart from that the study also established factors that influence in pricing preliminaries as well as can help contractor pricing preliminary accurately
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spelling utm-2162018-02-19T03:10:09Z http://eprints.utm.my/216/ The importance of preliminaries items Abdul Ghani, Norhisham TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) The items found in the preliminaries section of a bill of quantities are usually the most difficult to price and would produce the greatest variation in prices with each contractor having his own idea of pricing preliminaries. Not all preliminary items need to be priced, some are remain unpriced. The aim of the study to understand the preliminaries item and identify mandatory items in selected project that should be priced by contractors. The findings will give benefits to contractor as strategies to price preliminaries accordingly and accurately. The study conducted with reference to the selected group of contractor who has vast experiences in tender pricing. The methodology adopted for the study includes interviews with contractor and industry wide questionnaire survey among the contractors that involved in JKR projects. The data collected were analysed using content analysis method and using appropriate statistical method such as frequency analysis and relative index method. The study has determined what the items are considered as mandatory items that should be price by contractor and the strategies in pricing preliminaries as a guide. Apart from that the study also established factors that influence in pricing preliminaries as well as can help contractor pricing preliminary accurately 2006-12 Thesis NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.utm.my/216/1/NorhishamAbdulGhaniMFKA2006.pdf Abdul Ghani, Norhisham (2006) The importance of preliminaries items. Masters thesis, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Civil Engineering.
spellingShingle TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Abdul Ghani, Norhisham
The importance of preliminaries items
title The importance of preliminaries items
title_full The importance of preliminaries items
title_fullStr The importance of preliminaries items
title_full_unstemmed The importance of preliminaries items
title_short The importance of preliminaries items
title_sort importance of preliminaries items
topic TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
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