Special Issue of the 2014 (5th) International Conference on Engineering, Project, and Production Management

Special Issue of the 2014 (5th) International Conference on Engineering, Project, and Production Management

This issue includes five papers, four of which were selected from the 2014 (5th) International Conference on Engineering, Project, and Production Management (EPPM2014) held in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, and three of which won the EPPM2014 Excellent Paper Award. The selection was conducted by the Scientific Committee Chair through a two-stage double-blind review. To ensure paper quality, the maximum number of awards was limited to 5% of the total papers submitted to the conference. These Excellent Paper Awards were announced at the Gala Dinner, EPPM2014. To further ensure the quality of these papers, the authors were requested to expend their length prior to re-evaluation from initial screening through double-blind reviews to satisfactory amendments. In the first winner of the Excellent Paper Award, Lam and Gale describe a procurement performance model used to create longer term relationships between clients and suppliers for better project outcomes. The procurement performance model includes priori and posteriori stages. A priori performance model is based on operational and sociological constructs while the posteriori model focuses on the collaborative management of contractor performance through procurement measures to achieve expected project outcomes. Applicability of the proposed model is explored using highway projects.