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Overview of Construction Procurement Types

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In an ideal world the client should have brought forward the initial need for the project in a co-ordinated and controlled way from within its organisation. The client should not have too rigid ideas at this stage of how to go about procuring his “ideal” building, but should have taken all useful advice from within its organisation before bringing forward for the project team’s advice the strategies that it believes will fulfil the objectives.

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Winter, C. (2003). Overview of Construction Procurement Types. In: Contractor-Led Procurement. Baubetriebswirtschaftslehre und Infrastrukturmanagement. Deutscher Universitätsverlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-81614-6_3

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