Sustainability Assessment of Traditional Tendering: ‘Comparative Approach’

Abstract

Tendering has significant and long lasting economic, social and environmental impacts, and is an important dimension of construction sustainability. Since the traditional tendering procedures cause adversarial relationships and many other problems in all stages of the procurement process, this is a vital improvement area that can prove to be beneficial and contribute substantially to project success This project aims to identify the problems in the traditional tendering process and adopts a comparative approach in which it is the compared to the modern methods of tendering i.e E-tendering. The sustainability analysis is carried out for both methods. The project involves the identification of the factors that have an impact on the sustainability of the tendering process. The sustainability of each process is assessed through a cost benefit analysis and also by questionnaire survey that gives results from field. E-tendering provides an economically viable, socially acceptable and environment friendly tendering system which will reduce paper work, cut down the lead time and produce better quality tenders.