ABSTRACT
This thesis takes premise that tender management and bid evaluation are solid foundations to proper project execution. The study therefore sets to look into how tender management and bid evaluation process will assist in successful project execution. In order to achieve this aim the present systems of tender management and bid evaluation were investigated. Two organisations were investigated with a view to finding out how tenders are managed and bids evaluated. Questionnaires were distributed to contractors registered with Niger State and Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. This study has revealed that Tenders Boards where only a few professionals are represented run the risk of over relying on the technical opinion of the consultants. Furthermore, much of the tasks of the board are delegated to ill-equiped personnel who do not appreciate the implications of their decisions with respect to construction matters. The degree of information flow at tender stages was also found to be inadequate. Therefore, to improve the efficiency of tender management and bid evaluation it has been suggested that the composition of Tenders Boards be made up of a good number of professionals in the building industry. Also a new method of bid evaluation employing the use of contractors average, which hopefully will overcome some of the shortcomings of the present system, has been proposed.