PRE-QUALIFICATION OF CONTRACTORS IN IRAQ

Pre-qualification is major process in developing the construction project sector in Iraq as the owners/clients save the time, cost, quality and efforts by choosing efficiency contractors to execute their construction projects upon their requirements (owner) as well as saving the contractors from being awarded work they are incapable of doing it. This research aims to investigation the existing pre-qualification practices in the construction project in governmental ministries and provinces and setting pre-qualification criteria. This research has been conducted through practical study and literature review of the subjected related from pre-qualification process, followed by a field survey. This consisted of one questionnaire which includes tow part. General information about respondents and the Factors Influencing on the Pre-qualification Process have been obtained. Factors were divided in to Main and Sub Main Criteria, the data were analysed by relative important index method (RII) to rank those Criteria. The results showed the high importance of the adopted pre-qualification criteria of the contractors Based on (RII). The criteria include financial stability, technical expertise and contractor companies on black list, past performance, reputation of contractor and management ability of the Company. Others criteria was discussed in this research including factors which are considered to have low relatively such as claims and contractual disputes, final account, resource staff and plant, health and safety, quality control and quality assurance, and delays in the receipt of work because there are defects.