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CIVL4814: Project Procurement and Tendering (2020 - Semester 2)
| Unit: | CIVL4814: Project Procurement and Tendering (6 CP) |
| Mode: | Normal-Day |
| On Offer: | Yes |
| Level: | Senior Advanced |
| Faculty/School: | Civil Engineering |
| Unit Coordinator/s: |
Dr Cafe, Peter
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| Session options: | Semester 2 |
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| Campus: | Camperdown/Darlington |
| Pre-Requisites: | None. |
| Brief Handbook Description: | The general aim of this unit is to offer student the opportunity to develop an understanding of the procurement of built facilities and the methods of job allocation in project environments. Students will be engaged in a real construction case study project where key practical concepts which underpin procurement will be taught. At the end of this unit of study, students should be able to: evaluate a client's procurement situation and apply an appropriate procurement route; explain how and why a particular procurement route is chosen; undertake procurement assessment exercises; analyze a contractor's strategic responses in tendering (bidding) decision-making; discuss why a particular bidding strategy is chosen in different contexts; and evaluate a contractor's bidding performance using competitor analysis techniques. The syllabus comprises fundamentals of building procurement, assessment of procurement risks, competitive bidding, cost estimating, the competitive environment in the construction industry, contractors' competitive positioning, contractors' decision-making in bidding competition, bidding strategies and competitor analysis. |
| Assumed Knowledge: | CIVL3805. |
| Lecturer/s: |
Dr Chaaya, Michel
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| Timetable: | CIVL4814 Timetable | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| T&L Activities: | The Tutorials include group consultations about the case study and the project. |
Learning outcomes are the key abilities and knowledge that will be assessed in this unit. They are listed according to the course goal supported by each. See Assessment Tab for details how each outcome is assessed.
(7) Project and Team Skills (Level 3)| Assessment Methods: |
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| Assessment Description: |
Case Study: Group project report and presentation Project: Group project report and presentation Exam: Closed book written exam |
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| Policies & Procedures: | See the policies page of the faculty website at http://sydney.edu.au/engineering/student-policies/ for information regarding university policies and local provisions and procedures within the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies. |
Note that the "Weeks" referred to in this Schedule are those of the official university semester calendar https://web.timetable.usyd.edu.au/calendar.jsp
| Week | Description |
| Week 1 | Course introduction. Trends in project procurement: traditional vs. non-traditional. Selection of contractor: competitive tendering process. |
| Week 2 | Process, parties and contractual relationship in (i) Conventional/Traditional, (ii) Design-led procurement (D&B/Turnkey/Package Deal), (iii) Management-led procurement (Construction Management/ Management Contracting). |
| Week 3 | Finance-led procurement (PFI/PPP. Case studies. |
| Week 4 | Procurement assessment criteria (PAC). Assessment of procurement risk between the procurement routes. |
| Week 5 | Procurement extensions: international contracting. |
| Case studies. | |
| Week 6 | Tendering and estimating. Types of tendering procedures. Estimating from first principles. |
| Week 7 | The competitive environment. Contractors’ strategic responses/strategic bidding decision-making process: bid/no-bid and mark-up decisions. |
| Week 8 | Pricing for risks. Resources and need for work, number of bidders, market conditions. |
| Week 9 | Contractors’ bidding strategies. Case studies. |
| Week 10 | Competitor analysis. Measuring contractors’ competitiveness in bidding. Market share and success rate analysis. |
| Week 11 | Getting value in tendering. Codes of practice in Australia. Multi-criteria contract awarding system. |
| Week 12 | Competitive fee bidding (consultant fee). |
| Week 13 | Presentation of group work. |
| Exam Period | Assessment Due: Exam |
Course Relations
The following is a list of courses which have added this Unit to their structure.
Course Goals
This unit contributes to the achievement of the following course goals:
| Attribute | Practiced | Assessed |
| (7) Project and Team Skills (Level 3) | No | 100.01% |
| (8) Professional Effectiveness and Ethical Conduct (Level 3) | No | 0% |
| (6) Communication and Inquiry/ Research (Level 3) | No | 0% |
| (5) Interdisciplinary, Inclusiveness, Influence (Level 3) | No | 0% |
| (4) Design (Level 3) | No | 0% |
| (3) Problem Solving and Inventiveness (Level 3) | No | 0% |
These goals are selected from Engineering & IT Graduate Outcomes Table 2018 which defines overall goals for courses where this unit is primarily offered. See Engineering & IT Graduate Outcomes Table 2018 for details of the attributes and levels to be developed in the course as a whole. Percentage figures alongside each course goal provide a rough indication of their relative weighting in assessment for this unit. Note that not all goals are necessarily part of assessment. Some may be more about practice activity. See Learning outcomes for details of what is assessed in relation to each goal and Assessment for details of how the outcome is assessed. See Attributes for details of practice provided for each goal.
