The 2-phased price determination process in Bouwteam projects in the Netherlands

The 2-phased price determination process in Bouwteam projects in the Netherlands: An approach towards understanding the price in a construction project: Practical recommendations for the price determination process in Bouwteam

van der Pas, Eef (TU Delft Civil Engineering and Geosciences)

Straub, A. (mentor)
Chan, P.W.C. (graduation committee)
Bosch-Rekveldt, M.G.C. (graduation committee)

Delft University of Technology

Civil Engineering | Construction Management and Engineering

2021-01-19

Bouwteam is a Dutch project delivery method that involves the contractor and the client in a collaborative way in a construction project's design process. With this early involvement of the contractor, this project delivery method contains two agreements during the project. The first agreement is for the contractor's involvement in the design and the second one is for the project execution. Therefore, price determination becomes a two-phased process. With this two-phased process, both the client and contractor are involved in determining the price for the execution agreement. However, it is currently not clear how they could develop this price cooperatively. This research aims to find success factors for the price determination process in a Bouwteam, by which success factors are strategic management attributes. Due to a lack of literature about the obstacles in the price determination process, the research starts with a focus group discussion. Here, experts identified five obstacles to the price determination process. Accordingly, mitigation strategies for the obstacles were researched with a literature study. Those strategies were hypothesised as success factors in a conceptual model. The hypotheses were studied with four cases studies, including document research and interviewees with both the client and contractor side. Experts evaluated the result of a revised conceptual model of success factors as last. The research concludes with a final model with success factors for the price determination process in Bouwteam projects. This model includes thirteen critical success factors and six indirect success factors that support other critical success factors. Accordingly, the research developed recommendations that contribute to a smooth price negotiation and a price that satisfies both the client and contractors. In further research, the model with success factors can be validated, and more relationships between the success factors and the soft characteristics can be studied.

Bouwteam
Pricing
Early Contractor Involvement
2-Phased pricing process
Success factors
Construction costs

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Student theses

master thesis

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