Contractor management selection process

The Project Manager must work with the Contract Engineer to qualify and select capable bidders. If the project is in an existing plant site, the selection process must be done in close cooperation with the plant personnel since they must approve all contractors working in their plant. In the case of small projects, especially if the execution approach calls for multiple subcontractors, the volume of work will not be large enough to attract national contractors and the choice will be among small or medium-sized, local contractors. 

The selection process would require the contractor to supply relevant information regarding a number of areas of their business management in order for the client to form a judgement of their ability to properly carry out the work. 

This subcommittee prepared the broad outline for the book, identified the scope and major key references, and selected the title "Guidelines for Chemical Reactivity Evaluation and Application to Process Design" as representative of the concepts desired. The TNO Prins Maurits Laboratory, Rijswijk, The Netherlands, was chosen as the contractor with Dr. A. Henk Heemskerk as the project manager. 

The Project Manager is not expected to perform any inspections but only to have sufficient knowledge of the inspection process to ascertain that it is properly done. Obviously, inspection has to follow a selective program. It would be a serious misuse of resources to subject every piece of equipment to a rigorous inspection procedure. As already mentioned, the Project Manager must develop a sensible program with the contractor and/or the CED specialists. 

B. If you selected a construction site, imagine that you are the newly-appointed construction project manager, that is, on the staff of the general contractor. Or, if you chose a manufacturing process, pretend you are the just-appointed new... 

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