Bid management… or bid mismanagement?

摘要

"This project is over budget, we aren't going to deliver on time and the customer is not happy with us". This is an all too familiar statement when our clients ask us to identify process and control breakdown within projects which are not going to plan. But is it always the fault of the project director failing to deliver the project, or even the quantity surveyor who has been unable to effectively manage the budgets? When projects go wrong, too many construction firms fail to challenge themselves on the root cause of the issue. The elephant in the room is often that the opportunity was always too risky or the bid price was based on achieving subcontractor or value engineering savings that were unrealistic.