Feasibility Study Linking Best-Value Procurement Assessment to Outcome Performance Indicators [Dalrymple, RMIT] 2002-035-C

This Feasibility Study tests the notion of developing a standard set of tender evaluation criteria based on best-value criteria (to which individual clients can attach their own weightings) with definition of OPIs that would be required to be reported upon at the completion of projects. This Feasibility Study will establish the viability of the link between the selection criteria and the needs to evaluate how the project succeeded on a broader set of success criteria. This linkage could provide a set of direct cause and effect indicators that can be used as part of an improved post project evaluation process and assist in gathering a lesson learned knowledge base. Further, the OPIs identified could be operationalised for use as a broader based BSC approach to performance measurement thus providing leading indicators of likely success or impending problems. Currently, the standard project control indicators such as time, cost, Occupational Health and Safety etc tend to be more concerned with gathering lagging indicators for project control monitoring and reporting systems.