Assessment of bidders qualification criteria in tender evaluation process, a cases of Jimma city building project

Abstract

In building project, tendering process is one of the critical and important stages. To award building project for bidders must fulfill set of qualification criteria set by the client. Thus, qualification criteria are an important aspect in the tender evaluation process. The objective of this thesis is to identify problems of the qualification criteria, adopted for public building construction working in Jimma city, and to find out negative implication for the development of the sector & the study focuses on how to improve gap of bidder’s qualification in public construction project, Questionnaires have been developed and distributed to professionals who are actively working for on the public building construction sector. In addition to see the trend in setting bid qualification criteria, project case studies have been studied on different public building construction projects in Jimma city. Bidder’s qualification criteria identified through questionnaires and interview, and then the response have been analyzed to rank the factors based on their relative weight using relative important index analyses as perceived by professionals responding the questionnaires. The study showed that Bidders must submit Our company is always awarded of Lowest bidders, selecting lowest bidder by avoiding technical score, it is always dependent on tender sum are some of the most influential financial qualification criteria process factors considered crucially by the respondents for bid evaluation practice in Jimma city. The thesis was trying to show the way how the bidders‟ qualification criteria must be managed to create fair and competitive for bidders. Tendering bid evaluation is very important & vital stage in the construction delivery system; especially in an Ethiopian where construction industry developing. This study provides supporting practical solution for public construction client to enhance and improve their bidder’s selection processes in order to have successful completion of construction projects that would meet their requirements and increase their satisfaction