Review Of Partnering Model And Study On Selection Of Contractors And Solution Of Disputes

Partnering, as a new generation of client-contractor relationship arrangement in western countries'construction industry, has been used extensively in recent years and is regarded by many academic commentators and practitioners as an innovative and important management approach in construction procurement.On the basis of a background analysis of partnering, this paper proposes a concept model of partnering to facilitate the understanding of the significant aspects of partnering. A literature review is conducted based on this model which examines the relevant sources of partnering literature in the mainstream international high quality construction management journals and the future direction of partnering research in domestic context is outlined. The paper further summarizes the behavioral essence of partnering arrangement and points out the relevance of partnering in domestic construction industry.Then the paper studies projects using Partnering on the selection criteria of contractors and traditional contractor evaluation system which pay no attention to the human factors. Contractor selected via traditional criteria can complete the project, but causes arbitration and litigation. Therefore, the paper adds some critical factors as the evaluation criteria and use AHP to analyze the two evaluation system. It is the result that the selected contractor under the Partnering criteria is not the one under traditional criteria. After analyzing the result, the paper concludes that the expanded criteria can help select the contractor with better performance to realize Win-Win between Client-contractor.Based on the analysis of causes and solution of dispute and conflicts, the paper studies the organization and workflow of Partnering, and the"conflict ejection system"as the dispute solution method. This method provides solid theoretical basis for dispute solution.