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Construction Research Congress 2022
Construction Research Congress 2022: Project Management and Delivery, Controls, and Design and Materials - Selected Papers from Construction Research Congress 2022
  • Muaz O. Ahmed
  • Islam H. El-adaway, Missouri University of Science and Technology
  • Kalyn Coatney
Abstract

The global and national spending on public infrastructure projects continues to increase tremendously. Accordingly, contractors need to adopt efficient bidding strategies to cope with the legal requirement of competitive bidding within the public infrastructure projects. Moreover, contractors usually acquire the services of subcontractors to handle large projects. However, despite the previous research efforts on developing bidding models, there is still a lack of research that tackles the multi-stage construction bidding, where subcontractors submit quotations/bids first and general contractors bid second for the whole project. As such, this paper aims to develop a game-theoretic bidding model for multi-stage construction bidding. To this end, the authors utilized an interrelated methodology comprised of: (1) investigating existing bidding models that are based on a game theory approach; (2) deriving of a bid function for the multi-stage construction bidding following the low bid method where the lowest bidder is the winner; (3) simulating multi-stage bidding environment; and (4) validating the derived bid function and simulation model utilizing data of 808 US public infrastructure projects. Results indicate that the derived bid function gives general contractors a competitive advantage by reducing the occurrence and magnitude of earning negative profits (known as the winner's curse) while winning a reasonable number of projects; and hence, resulting in a higher expected profit. Ultimately, this study adds to the body of knowledge by providing a bidding model for the multi-stage construction bidding that shall aid contractors in dealing with the uncertainties within the associated decision-making process.

Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Comments

This research was carried out through funding provided by the US Department of Education through the Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) Fellowship Program (P200A180066) at Missouri University of Science and Technology.

International Standard Book Number (ISBN)
978-078448397-8
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
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Citation
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2022 American Society of Civil Engineers, All rights reserved.
Publication Date
1-1-2022
Publication Date
01 Jan 2022
Citation Information
Muaz O. Ahmed, Islam H. El-adaway and Kalyn Coatney. "Construction Research Congress 2022" Construction Research Congress 2022: Project Management and Delivery, Controls, and Design and Materials - Selected Papers from Construction Research Congress 2022 Vol. 3 thru C (2022) p. 835 - 844
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/islam-el-adaway/142/