AN APPRAISAL OF PREQUALIFICATION CRITERIA USED FOR CONTRACTORS SELECTION IN PUBLIC BUILDING PROJECTS IN NIGERIA

📄 Project Abstract

The research was carried out to appraise contractors' prequalification criteria used by public organizations for building projects, for the last six years (2006-2011). Field survey involving ten public organizations in Kaduna was conducted. Data were collected with the aid of structured questionnaires. 60 questionnaires were distributed to construction professionals/ staff of which 55 responses were returned and 50 used for analysis. Information gathered include the major contractors' prequalification criteria and the sub contractors' prequalification criteria used to asses contractors on building construction works. The relative importance index (RII) was used to compute the mean score of the contractors Prequalification criteria in relation to the overall responses on a criterion were calculated. The research discovered that technical capacity with over 58% of the professionals considered it important among the major prequalification criteria. Health and safety is not appreciated, on...