The Value and Necessity of the Project Management Plan

Kusters, J.F.

The Value and Necessity of the Project Management Plan

The pre-award phase of BVP projects from the vendor’s perspective

Master thesis (2016)

Authors

J.F. Kusters

Contributors

H.L.M. Bakker (mentor)

A. Jalali Sohi (mentor)

Y.J. Cuperus (mentor)

Programme

Construction Management and Engineering

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07-11-2016

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Programme

Construction Management and Engineering

Abstract

The research is aimed at defining the hurdles in the pre-award phase of Best Value Procurement (BVP) projects and providing a solution to overcome those problems for engineering companies. The pre-award phase includes the period between the conditional award (Dutch: voornemen tot gunning) and the definitive award (Dutch: definitieve gunning). In this phase, the vendor has approximately two months to develop a Project Management Plan (PMP) (Rijt, 2016). The pre-award phase is seen as the most important phase in BVP projects, however, a knowledge gap exists regarding control in the pre-award phase. Exploratory interviews at Witteveen+Bos have revealed that the company struggles to control the pre-award phase of projects in which they are involved, while literature suggests that particularly front-end project development is critical for outstanding project performance.

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