| dc.description.abstract | In recent years, the turnkey contracting delivery method has been gaining great attention in promoting public works. This welcoming trend is brought by the fundamental advantages of the turnkey contracting over the traditional low-bid procurement method. The effectiveness of turnkey, such as shortening the overall construction period, improving the quality of projects, and reducing the number of contract packages, can all reduce the shortcomings of the traditional procurement method.
However, there are still potential doubts and uncertainty in implementing turnkey contracting among government agencies. It is understood that, the internal decision-making process still largely favors the traditional method, as a default selection. Whereas the scarce chances of selecting the turnkey method may meet suspicions from many auditing aspects.
It is the belief of this research work that a self-scrutiny decision tool is in need, so that agencies would base their decisions on rational grounds, in particular the capabilities of the organization and the characteristic of the project.
This work aims at identifying such decision factors. Based on careful analysis of practical experience and opinions of experts, this work establishes a preliminary assessment framework, and selects the most influential factors through questionnaire surveys. After obtaining and confirming the evaluation factors and their decision structure, a second questionnaire survey was conducted to quantify the impact of the evaluation factors, including their relative weight. The decision-making model introduced by this work has shown great potential in justifying an agency’s decision on whether to implement turnkey contracting for public works. | en_US |