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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Best-Value"”.
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Best value model for public private partnership infrastructure projects in Malaysia
… development in Malaysia. However, the Value for Money (VfM) evaluative aspect of the PPP procurement form has faced criticism. Much of the criticism is directed to the PPP practice being riddled with issues identified as being related to the ineffective structuring of the private sector …
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Organisational culture and best value in the police service of Northern Ireland
… model for assisting with the implementation of Best Value into policing in Northern Ireland. Best Value is a legislative requirement for public sector organisations that is primarily concerned with improving the efficiency and effectiveness of policing; thereby improving the overall quality of …
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Reengineering best value source selection through process innovation and the selected application of information technology
The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the Best Value Source Selection process, identify process pathologies, and explore opportunities to dramatically improve performance utilizing information technology as an enabler of that innovation. The Davenport Process Innovation Framework is used to …
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Approaches to council housing management: a study of 'best value' implementation in two London boroughs
… comprises research into the implementation of Best Value in council housing. Best value is a nationally determined framework specifying the process which local authorities must use to review and improve the full range of their activities with regard to performance, quality, accountability and …
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Linking Best-Value Procurement with Project Performance Outcomes in Design-Bid-Build Vertical Construction Projects
… team; therefore, awarding the project to the best-suited contractor an important decision for owners. One method of contractor procurement is the best-value (BV) approach. When using this approach, the owner considers contractors’ qualifications in addition to their proposed prices; in …
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Multi-Criteria Decision Modeling for Best Value Selections in Target Value Design Integrated Project Delivery
… Project Delivery (IPD) combined with Target Value Design (TVD) is a better way to deliver value for the client than traditional guaranteed maximum price (GMP) methods. With traditional GMP delivery methods, the interests of the parties are often at odds. The goal of IPD is to align all party …
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Shipboard integrated engineering plant survivable network optimization
… policy. In particular, distinguishing between best-value concept variants is not well suited to Pareto-style tradeoff analysis unless the variants can be shown to be at or approximately minimum cost. This thesis presents a systematic process for minimum cost, survivable design of an integrated …
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The role of technology in the real estate industry
… estate companies leverage technology to achieve best value, what the major benefits of technology are and finally, the key inhibiting and enabling factors impacting technology adoption. Initially, a theoretical foundation of modern facilities management is laid, including its relationship to real …
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Προβλεπόμενες (φυσιολογικές) τιμές της σπιρομέτρησης και της καμπύλης ροής/όγκου για τις ηλικίες 7 έως 15 ετών του ελληνικού πληθυσμού
… was designed to eliminate the lack of standard values for the spirometry, and the flow/volume curve in the greek population, age 7 to 15 years old. Of the 1603 elementary and high school students examined, 731 boys and 657 girls were included in the study. These children were asymptomatic, not …
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System Analysis for Satellite Networks with Free-Space Optical Links
… 3 and Kuiper Shell 2 constellations. We find the best value of the phasing parameter. We investigate the link budget for laser inter-satellite link (LISL) and uplink/downlink and the effect of many constellation parameters on the satellite transmission power. We examine the tradeoff between …
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Experimental Test of Relativistic Time Dilation by Laser Spectroscopy of Fast Ions
… time dilation, that improves the hitherto best value by a factor of 4.
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Analysis of the benefits of Regenerative Braking in Urban Railway Traction System
… the transit system can collaborate to gain the best value of energy storage.</p>
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Public - Private partnership financing in South Africa
… optimal, cheap or able to provide the best value for money (National Audit Office, 2001). This suggests that the South African financial market, which is so critical to the success of PPP projects, may in fact be hindering the development and efficiency of the market. The main research …
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Techno-economic analysis and life cycle assessment of a novel air-sourced high-temperature heat pump with hourly resolution
… decarbonization cost, the heat pump provided the best value across most scenarios.
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The effect of injection molding processing conditions and fiber content towards the properties of polypropylene-nanoclay nanocomposites blend with gigantochloa scortechinii fibers
… tests were done. As a result, the minimum value of warpage was 0.003 mm, shrinkage of 0.00048 mm and maximum flexural strength was 36.3390 MPa. To get the best results for flexural strength, the highest value while for warpage and shrinkage, the lower is the best value. For ANOVA analysis, …
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Realigning contract incentives for the non-competitive environment of the US shipbuilding industry
… through formal and informal means, the best value for the Navy in the production of large ships. These methods mainly include a sharper focus within the contracts on the scale and alignment of incentives. Some incentives in use in current contracts were found to be counterproductive to …
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The effects of unconscious thought and domain familiarity on younger and older adults' decision making
… choose which of the two options provided the best value for money. Results indicated that overall older adults made better quality decisions than younger adults. Older adult participants also made accurate decisions using the intuitive process of thinking. These results might be explained by …
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Comparative Analysis of Current Performance-Based Maintenance Methods to Improve Virginia Highways
… other agencies was to provide VDOT with industry best practices as well as recommendations for future contract evolutions. Timelines were constructed for Florida DOT, Main Roads of Western Australia, England\'s Highways Agency and New Zealand Transport Agency. Connection links were made between …
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Towards engineering higher quality intelligent environments
… ensures that the delivered systems deliver the best value. However, the challenge is to shorten the development cycle so that feedback can be obtained early and regularly from them. It was also noted that there is a significant increase in number of system tests which could impact delivery time, …
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Determining the Economic Effects of using Building Physics tools during the Building Process
… the system with lowest initial cost is not the best value for money over the long-term perspective. After 50 years, it was calculated to be the same cost as the more expensive supply-exhaust system with heat recovery. Interviews with engineering consultants showed that computer based tools are …
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