Abstract: Competitive bidding in design-bid-build contracts holds the potential to lower bid prices, maximize project outcomes, and promote growth in the construction industry. However, these potential benefits of competitive bidding ...

Abstract: Competitive bidding is a popular technique State Highway Agencies use for selecting contractors for public construction work. It intends to ensure that construction projects are awarded at the lowest price. However, public ...

Abstract: State highway agencies (SHAs) frequently need to cluster projects based on their scope similarity to support various construction planning tasks such as cost estimation. Few recent studies have presented systematic methods ...

Abstract: State highway agencies (SHAs) often need to cluster or bundle projects in accordance with their scope similarity for various construction management tasks, including historical data-driven time, cost estimating, and project ...