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Abstract
selection of an appropriate bid for construction projects in Egypt is of a major concern for organizations. Without a proper and accurate method for selecting the most appropriate bid, the performance of the project will be affected. So in this report, different methods of bid evaluation are reviewed from literature including all of their affecting parameters. The decision whether to bid for a tender and work out a proposal or not holds considerable consequences for organizations as adequate project evaluation is crucial and the criteria which influence the success of the evaluation and selection of promising projects are highly diverse. The scales of these criteria are qualitative as well as quantitative. Also the importance of the different criteria differs very much. Some criteria are negligible whereas others have a very dominant weight. Several criteria must be taken into account and a consistent evaluation methodology must be applied. As the decision making to select a bid is a very complicated process, involving the considerations of different criteria so; this report proposes systems that can assist in the process of decision process of ranking bidders, for that the weighted criteria method and the analytic hierarchy method are studied, presented and discussed in its detailed procedures for achieving the right decision in bid evaluation and selection with regard to the qualification of supporting the bid decision and applied in three different case studies of construction projects which differ in values, items and competitive bidders. The availability of the two methods is applied and results are analyzed and the analysis led to some interesting findings that reflect on the current practice of application range for both methods and also results are compared to achieve the best bid accompanied with recommendations of different application ranges.Keywords: Bid evaluation, Construction project, weighted criteria method, Analytic hierarchy method.