Decision support for web-based prequalification tender management system in construction projects

Tendering processes need some improvements as they being used widely by government and private sector. One of the improvements attempts to apply is to use Web services technology as a medium to process all the tenders that submitted by the interested contractors. Integration of Web-based application and decision support concepts are employed in order to develop an efficient Web application for prequalification tendering processes. PreQTender is used as a tool to help decision maker (DM) to select the best contractors in Malaysia. PreQTender processes all tender documents and it generates the short listed of the qualified contractors. Those eligible contractors will be considered to be evaluated in the next phase which is evaluation phase.