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Apr 15, 2003
Competitive Bid versus Negotiated Bid in Commercial Construction Industry—One Contractor’s Perspective
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Volume 8, Issue 2
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The competitive and negotiated bidding processes are not new. Competitive or hard bidding has been and is currently more prevalent in the commercial construction industry. However, in the last 20 years, evolutionary changes have occurred in the subcontracting and architectural fields of commercial construction. The result has been a depression in prices for competitively bid jobs. A need has arisen for a change in the bidding process. The negotiated bid process needs to be seriously considered as an alternative process in today’s environment.
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Halpin, D. W., and Woodhead, R. W. (1998). Construction management, 2nd Ed., Wiley, New York.
U.S. Census Bureau. (2000). Commercial and institutional building construction: 1997 economic census, construction—industry series (EC97C-2333B), U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C.
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Practice Periodical on Structural Design and Construction
Volume 8 • Issue 2 • May 2003
Pages: 118 - 121
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Copyright © 2003 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Received: Aug 28, 2000
Accepted: May 21, 2002
Published online: Apr 15, 2003
Published in print: May 2003
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Steve Zelasko
Estimator, W. E. O’Neil Const. Company of Arizona, 4511 E. Kerby Ave., Phoenix, AZ 85040‐1925.
Cliff J. Schexnayder, F.ASCE
Eminent Scholar, Del E. Webb School of Construction, Arizona State Univ., Box 870204, Tempe, AZ 85287-0204.
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