Decision Criteria for Contractor Selection in Construction Industry: A Literature Review

摘要

The choose of appropriate contractors is essential to the success of a project since the suppliers are responsible for the core activities to execute it. Choose the adequate criteria for this process is important to achieving a result according to the decision-making preferences. Therefore, this research shows the outcomes of a literature review of the factors used in the choice of contractors in the construction sector, considering sixty-one studies published from 1993 to 2015. The papers are categorized into eight classes according to the subsector of construction segment. The results summarize a list of criteria that can be employed by the managers in the contractor selection since the literature indicated that they are very important in this specific context.