Resumen de Contractors selection: using fuzzy-control tools to help in decision making

Ricardo Javier Bendaña Jácome, Alfredo del Caño, M. Pilar de la Cruz

• After a short analysis of the procedures and criteria to use in contractors selection processes, this paper deals with a contractors’ selection system based in the fuzzy-logic technique called fuzzy control. A tool has been conceived for use in the private sector, in traditional design-bid-build projects. The system includes an assessment of several qualitative and quantitative issues, taking also into account the risk of not achieving the client’s objectives. The system allows using three different selection policies: when the essential objective for the client is, respectively, cost, time and quality.