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2 EDITORIAL BOARD Editors Dean Kashiwagi Professor Arizona State University, USA Charles Egbu Professor Glasgow Caledonian University, UK CIB W117 Secretariat Kenneth Sullivan Assistant Professor Arizona State University, USA Academics/Researchers Syed Ahmed Associate Professor Florida International University, USA William Badger Professor Arizona State University, USA Jan Brochner Professor Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Daniel Castro Assistant Professor Georgia Tech, USA CK Chang, Ph.D. Cerik, South Korea Dongping Fang Professor Tsinghua University, China David Greenwood Professor University of Northumbria, UK Juhani Kiiras Professor Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Mohan Kumaraswamy Professor University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Min-Jae Lee Associate Professor Chonnam National University, South Korea Tayyab Magsood, Ph.D. RMIT University, Austrailia Peter McDermott Professor University of Salford, UK George Ofori Professor National University of Singapore, Singapore Ekambaram Palaneeswaran Assistant Professor University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Sicco Santema Professor Technicla University Delft, Netherlands Amarjit Singh Associate Professor University of Hawaii, USA William Verdini Associate Professor Arizona State University, USA Guangbin Wang Associate Professor Tongji University, China Avi Wiezel Associate Professor Arizona State University, USA Ivica Zavrski Associate Professor University of Zagreb, Croatia Industry Professionals Nathan Chong M&R Facility Concepts, Inc., USA Marc Gillissen Heijmans Construction, Netherlands Pekka Huovinen Helsinki University of Technology, Finland, Finland Herman Koebergen City of Peoria, USA Mark Little State of Idaho, USA Jim McMann Global-Engineering, LLC, USA Michael Perkins University of Minnesota, USA Jeff Powell Neogard, USA Thom Tisthammer Wattle and Daub, USA Jeroen van de Rijt Technicla University Delft, Netherlands Stephen Vatter Global-Engineering, LLC, USA Wiebe Witteveen Ministry of Transport, Netherlands George Wittmann Schering Plough, USA Dan Zenko City of Peoria, USA PBSRG 2011 Journal for the Advancement of Performance Information and Value VOL. 3 NO. 1
3 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Guest Editor s Introduction.1 Jeroen van de Rijt and Wiebe Witteveen 2. Historical Overview of Best Value in the Netherlands...6 George K. I. Ang 3. Best Value Procurement / Performance Information Procurement System Development..12 Dean Kashiwagi, PhD 4. What is Happening in Supply Chain Management?...46 Sicco C. Santema, PhD 5. Using Best Value PIPS Procurement in Europe, Need for Compromise?...56 Marianne van Leeuwen 6. Is Best Value Procurement achievable within the framework of the ARW 2005?...72 Ramona Apostol 7. Best Value at the Directorate-General for Public Works and Water Management in The Netherlands: A Case Study of the Procurement of Infrastructure Projects Worth $1,200M..90 Jeroen van de Rijt, Wiebe Witteveen, Carlita Vis, Sicco C. Santema, PhD 8. Tender Environmental Impact Assessment Extra Discharge Capacity Afsluitdijk Stan van Veenendaal and Wiebe Witteveen 9. Hiring an External Advisor Hydrology at Water Board De Dommel..112 Bas Plehn 10. BVP at 's-hertogenbosch: Buying a Retention and Settling Tank Gard van Hulzen 11. A Cross-Purchasing Portfolio Application of Best Value Procurement: Lessons Learned from Six Cases at Ballast Nedam..128 Guido J.E. Koreman 12. Individual Business Travel at Boehringer Ingelheim: A Best Value Procurement Pilot.146 Marco van der Heijden and Jeroen van de Rijt PBSRG 2011 Journal for the Advancement of Performance Information and Value VOL. 3 NO. 1
4 Letter from the Editor Guest Editor s Introduction to the Special Issue: Best Value Procurement in the Netherlands Jeroen van de Rijt, MSc Scenter Management Consultants Driebergen-Rijsenburg, The Netherlands Wiebe Witteveen, MSc Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment, Rijkswaterstaat Utrecht, The Netherlands The worldwide marketplace is forcing the optimization of all functions and services. There is no place for waste in today s economy. As processes become more efficient, they need less management, control and regulation, and more leadership, vision, and value. Accountability will become the key issue (Kashiwagi, in Prestatieinkoop by Van de Rijt & Santema, 2009a). More than 15 years ago, Dean Kashiwagi created a process called Best Value Procurement/Performance Information Procurement System (BVP/PIPS) at Arizona State University. PIPS is a procurement method that aims to select the most suitable vendor for the job and to spur this vendor on to highest performance, while reducing the client s management and control tasks (Kashiwagi, 2009b). Kashiwagi developed the method over several years with the objective of improving the procurement and management of construction projects by reducing risk in selecting the top performer. The BVP method exists of six steps, each built around a specific "filter which focuses on a different element to separate high from low performers. Four filters are employed to select the best vendor, while two are related to project control. At this moment the BVP process has been used in more than 700 tests with overall spending of $2.3 billion. BVP is being used all over the US, being tested in Botswana, Finland, The Netherlands, Malaysia and many other places around the world. However, since most pilot projects have taken place in the United States, not much is known about experiences and results outside the US. This Special Issue focuses on the application of BVP methodology in The Netherlands. After the US, the Netherlands is the country where BVP is applied on the largest scale. BVP in the Netherlands is applied in and outside construction (ship building, IT, health care), in the public sector as well as in the private sector and across numerous phases in (different) supply chains. In 2010 BVP is on its way to becoming the new way of procurement in The Netherlands, which is reason enough to publish this special issue. The goal of this special issue is to explain the working of BVP in the context of European and Dutch legislation and to share the lessons learned from several cases in The Netherlands. In this introduction we will give a brief summary on the history of BVP in the Netherlands, after which we will describe the content of this issue. PBSRG 2011 Journal for the Advancement of Performance Information and Value VOL. 3 NO. 1 1
5 Rijt and Witteveen A brief history of BVP in The Netherlands Dean Kashiwagi and George Ang (from the Ministry of Housing) did the first introduction of BVP to major clients in The Netherlands in In 2003, employees from the Ministry of Transport as well as employees from a large construction company (Heijmans) attended the yearly Conference on Best Value Procurement in Arizona, USA. From that point on, Dutch participants regularly attended the conference. The first BVP projects in The Netherlands started in Below a historical overview in a time line of known BVP projects that have been done in The Netherlands since the start in Table 1 Historical Overview of Dutch BVP Projects 2005 Radboud UMC: maintenance projects ( 700K) 2008 Heijmans: Bitumen supply ( 12M) Ballast Nedam: Acoustic fencing along railway track ( 300K) Ballast Nedam: Metal piles (not finished) IHC Merwede: Personal Protection Equipment ( 500K) Ballast Nedam: Decorative prefab screen along railway (postponed) Heijmans: Bitumen emulsion/road surface dressing ( 2M) IHC Merwede: Renovation of tugboats (not finished) 2009 Ballast Nedam: Fuels for cars and machinery ( 8M) Heijmans: Gas iol supply for projects ( 9M) Municipality of Den Bosch: Retention settling tank ( 1M) Rijkswaterstaat: 16 infrastructural projects in the Fast Track Project (approx. 600M) 2010 Rijkswaterstaat: ESA project ( 2M) Water board De Dommel: Hydrology services ( 300K) Boehringer Ingelheim: Individual Business Travel ( 375K) Ballast Nedam: Prefab concrete paving stones ( 3M) Woningcorporation: Building seven apartments ( 1M) Waterbedrijf Limburg (currently running: 1M) Ballast Nedam: Wholesalers for hardware and tooling ( 6M) Corus: inspection and renovation of sewers ( 600K) As the table above shows, most projects took place in the construction industry. The application of BVP in construction must be seen in the context of the dramatic changes in the last decade. Up until 2000 the construction industry had all the features of a low-bid arena: specification, qualification, standards-based (Design-Bid-Build), and management and inspection by the client. Up until 1992 consultation about prices by the vendors was even legal. In 2002 a number of fraud cases led to the installation of the Netherlands parliamentary inquiry Committee of Construction Fraud. The most important recommendations of the Committee were threefold. First of all there was a need for harmonized procurement policies for public contract authorities. Secondly, public authorities should adapt their policies towards more integrated 2 PBSRG 2011 Journal for the Advancement of Performance Information and Value VOL. 3 NO. 1
6 Letter from the Editor project delivery models, such as Design-Build and Design-Build-Finance-Maintain. The third recommendation was to make more use of award criteria based on price and quality (use of socalled Most Economically Advantageous Tender; or MEAT ). The Directorate-General of Public Works and Water Management (Rijkswaterstaat), part of the Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management, anchored the policy of integrated contracts and the use of best value procurement in 2004 (Rijkswaterstaat, 2004). The ambition for 2012 is to award 90% of all contracts on quality and price (Rijkswaterstaat, 2008). A very specific way of awarding contracts based on quality and price is using the methodology of BVP. A major milestone for BVP in The Netherlands was the decision in 2009 by Rijkswaterstaat to resolve 16 major road bottlenecks in the Netherlands using BVP. The so-called Fast Track Program (Programma Spoedaanpak Wegen) is the world s largest BVP program with a combined worth of 600 million ($800 billion). Next to projects shown in Table 1, a Dutch CIB W117 (previously TG61) platform for discussion has been established by Sicco Santema and Jeroen van de Rijt. In this platform the practitioners of BVP share experiences and learning. This platform contains not only clients and vendors from the construction industry, but also professionals from other industries. In 2009, Van de Rijt and Santema published the first non-english book on BVP, which helped to share BVP methodology in new arenas. Papers in this Special Issue This Special Issue begins with an historical overview by George Ang, the person who introduced BVP in the Netherlands. Next Dean Kashiwagi describes the BVP methodology, its origins and developments in a paper called Case Study: Best Value Procurement/Performance Information Procurement System Development. All papers in this journal in which cases are outlined will reflect the way they applied this methodology. Then Sicco Santema presents an overview of BVP from a supply chain perspective. Given the importance of procurement legislation in the public sector the fourth and fifth papers deal with specific European and Dutch legislation issues. Marianne Van Leeuwen describes her view on the applicability of BVP within European Legislation, while Ramona Apostol reflects her views in the following paper on the legal issues from the perspective of Dutch national legislation. These legally-orientated papers are followed by a case study on the world s largest BVP program: Best Value at Rijkswaterstaat in The Netherlands by Jeroen Van de Rijt, Wiebe Witteveen, Carlita Vis and Sicco Santema. The paper details the ways the Directorate-General has applied the different PIPS elements and identifies 11 differences with the pure PIPS methodology of Dean Kashiwagi. It then describes the results of the six procurement processes. The seventh paper deals with another project also within Rijkswaterstaat. Stan van Veenendaal and Wiebe Witteveen describe how the methodology works in a different environment, in PBSRG 2011 Journal for the Advancement of Performance Information and Value VOL. 3 NO. 1 3
7 Rijt and Witteveen procuring engineering services to deliver an Environmental Impact Report in a project called EDCA (Extra Discharge Capacity Afsluitdijk). Bas Plehn then describes the application of BVP in the same sector (engineering services), but in another area of the public sector, a water board. Water boards are among the oldest forms of local government in the Netherlands, some of them having been founded in the 13th century. However, this does not imply that their procurement processes are traditional. Retention settling tank at the Municipality of Den Bosch by Gard van Hulzen is the ninth paper in this issue. It is an example where the client (Den Bosch) is being educated from parties downstream in the value chain (Breijn, part of construction company Heijmans). This paper shows the applicability of the methodology in a municipality and is the bridge case between the public and private sector applying BVP. In the next paper Guido Koreman of construction company Ballast Nedam, describes the BVP projects his company been doing since 2008 (upstream in the value chain). It is the first paper in this journal in the private sector. Building on his experiences, he designed a portfolio model and makes suggestions on implementing BVP as a procurement philosophy in an organization. The eleventh and final paper in this Special Issue is written by Marco van der Heijden from global pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim. Van der Heijden describes a pilot project where Individual Business Travel is being procured. The pilot shows that the methodology also works when procuring services outside the construction industry. The Future Throughout this Special Issue, one will notice the variety in projects that have been done, in both the public and private sector, in construction and outside construction, downstream and upstream in the value chain, projects with a beginning and end and so-called IDIQ contracts. BVP is still in a very early stage in The Netherlands. In each of the organizations the described projects only form a very small portion of the total procurement portfolio. When taking an even bigger perspective (total Dutch procurement) the BVP projects seem negligible in size. However, a movement has been started that focuses more and more on quality. There is a momentum in The Netherlands, also noticeable when looking at the number of attendees in conferences on this topic. As you will recognize in the papers of this Special Issue, the results of the projects are not realized automatically. It requires constant education of employees inside the own organization and of the vendors, and a real effort to implement a change. The future is bright. The verifiable results of the project will show a need for further implementation of BVP across different industries and across different product and different stages in the value chain. We will write follow-up papers as we work on additional projects and see more results. 4 PBSRG 2011 Journal for the Advancement of Performance Information and Value VOL. 3 NO. 1
8 Letter from the Editor Final Words from the Guest Editors We would like to thank the authors and reviewers that contributed to this Special Issue. We would also like to thank the staff at PBSRG for correcting our (non-native) English grammar. We sincerely appreciate all your help. A special thank-you to Dean Kashiwagi, with whom we worked closely the last years, and who laid the foundation for this Special Issue with his methodology. The Special issue editors: Jeroen van de Rijt Scenter Management Consultants & Wiebe Witteveen Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment / Rijkswaterstaat References Kashiwagi, D. (2009a). Preface in Prestatieinkoop, wie steekt er boven het maaiveld uit?. Van de Rijt & Santema; Driebergen, p.7-8. Kashiwagi, D. (2009b). A Revolutionary Approach to Project Management and Risk Minimization. Best Value Performance Information Procurement System, PBSRG, Arizona State University. Rijkswaterstaat (2004). (Business Plan 2004), Ondernemingsplan 2004, Een nieuw perspectief voor Rijkswaterstaat (only in Dutch). Rijkswaterstaat (2008). (Business Plan 2012), Ondernemingsplan Agenda 2012 (only in Dutch). PBSRG 2011 Journal for the Advancement of Performance Information and Value VOL. 3 NO. 1 5
9 Introduction for the Dutch Special Issue: Historical Overview of Best Value in the Netherlands George K. I. Ang, MArch, MSc BPI Consult & Research The Netherlands Documenting the Journey of Best Value Procurement into the Netherlands Best Value Procurement is on its way to being adopted as the backbone in professionalising public construction clients in the Netherlands. Today, apart from several private real estate investments all over the country, major public work projects representing more than US$ 1000 million investment costs, are being run by managing performance information and value. The application of the best value Performance Information Procurement System (PIPS) in several project practices is presented in this special edition of the Journal, dedicated to the Dutch developments on this field during the past 7 years. A few interesting events and developments were apparent in Dutch construction practice prior to introducing best value procurement PIPS as a vision in As in most other countries, worldwide traditional market structures, with their emphasis on short-term relationships, were characteristic for the Dutch construction sector during the past century. However, the construction industry has been continually criticised for not achieving the level of improvement in performance and productivity shown by other industrial sectors. Structurally suffering a 10-12% investment loss by construction defects while running business with less than 4% profit margins may be considered very weird compared to the common economic performance of less than 4% defects and more than 12% profit margins in other industries. Earlier, during the nineties, this has already led to an international need for reform in a number of countries, such as the Nordic countries, Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore, successfully following the well known UK vision and practice on Constructing the Team (Latham 1994) and Constructing Excellence (Egan 1998). The sense of urgency for reform in building and construction in the Netherlands was, nevertheless, not felt before the 2002 large scale fraud and collusion scandal that led to a Parliamentary Inquiry resulting in recommendations towards rigorous politically driven changes. Evidence suggests that the traditional competitive approaches, which most countries are now moving away from, give rise to systemic problems with market dynamics in the construction sector. It is argued that these traditional competition policies, due to the characteristics of the construction industry, create a business environment that encumbers innovation and dynamic efficiency. The construction industry, in particular the public works segment, seems highly vulnerable to ruinous competition. Traditional procurement approaches make it difficult for companies to start up new business cycles. Downturns in market volume induce destructive price 6 PBSRG 2011 Journal for the Advancement of Performance Information and Value VOL. 3 NO. 1
10 Introduction for the Dutch Special Issue: Historical Overview of Best Value in the Netherlands wars, and exclude any form of trust, that was echoed in this collusion and fraud scandal in the Netherlands It became politically obvious that the current and more traditional procurement and business processes do lead to abuses in the form of collusion on pricing and the allocation of work. They also inhibited competition and innovation, and so reduced progress in quality standards and productivity. There were inadequate incentives for higher performance or better value and firms were not sufficiently orientated towards their clients. The overall effect was to give the industry an increasingly poor image, which put off talented young talented people from seeking employment in the building and construction industry.a method to become more efficient. With an annual turnover of approximately 60 billion, comprised of 85,000 firms and around 526,000 employees, the sector represents more than 7% of the Dutch GNP, i.e. a major national economic asset. The previous reports and the Parliamentary Inquiry therefore set a firm basis for reform. Due to market irregularities, and as a consequence of similar fraud and collusion scandals in a few other countries worldwide, the restoration of trust has become a major reform issue. Political commitment on this issue has been essential for the initiation of the Dutch national reform process in building and construction. Three Ministers (Trade & Industry; Transport & Civil Works; Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment) issued a political Action Agenda in November 2003, based on five main objectives: 1. Restoring trust between the government and the sector 2. Developing effective markets and a properly functioning sector 3. Enhancing professionalism in procurement 4. Instilling high standards in the supply chain 5. Less, but more effective, regulation An expert network for professional public procurement (PIANO: Professioneel Inkopen en Aanbesteden Netwerk Overheid opdrachtgevers) was raised as to support the implementation of these objectives. Since 2003 it became politically obvious that the same management, direction, and control would definitely not bring improvement after the 2002 scandal. Meanwhile, the best value PIPS method drew attention because it minimises the need to management and direction, and because the performance measurements, increases transparency. However, there were a few considerations emerging from discussions among public procurement executives. The terminology used within the context of value does vary depending on the level of interests of stakeholders. On the level of the workplace fitness for purpose is an important issue, while on the level of asset management return on investment is certainly the decisive issue, and on the level of society there may be the issue of value in terms of cultural, sustainable and architectural quality. The general approach though is based on the assumption that, in client expectations of total building performance, the quality and yearly costs of the workplace will become identified as a key to business competitiveness. In many countries programmes are ongoing with the aim for more or less radical reforms in the building and construction sector in order to value-empower the sector, and procurement appears to be a key factor for improvement in terms of enhancing the delivery of added value and client satisfaction. PBSRG 2011 Journal for the Advancement of Performance Information and Value VOL. 3 NO. 1 7
11 Ang The issue of best value procurement was explicitly addressed in autumn 2004 after the introduction of the PIPS method among public and private executives, selected by the Rijksgebouwendienst (Dutch Government Building Agency) executive George Ang, who specialized in performance based procurement. George arranged specific interactive workshopconferences and invited the internationally well known Arizona State University Professor Dean Kashiwagi as keynote speaker. Figure 1. Introduction of the PIPS method in August 2004 by keynote speaker Prof. Dean Kashiwagi (Arizona State University) These conferences were followed by several similar events in both private and public organizations, such as the international Heijmans Construction Corporation, the Academic Hospital of the city of Nijmegen and the Rijkswaterstaat (the Dutch State Public, Transport and Civil Works), the Rijksgebouwendienst and Prorail (the National Railroads). In the meantime a number of procurement officers were sent to the Arizona State University to participate in the annual best value PIPS conference. The vision on best value procurement enhanced a mind set on professionalizing human resources by co-ordinated actions of 9 clients with large buying power, gathered in a Public Construction Client Forum since February PBSRG 2011 Journal for the Advancement of Performance Information and Value VOL. 3 NO. 1
12 Introduction for the Dutch Special Issue: Historical Overview of Best Value in the Netherlands Since 2003 it became politically obvious that the same management, direction, and control would definitely not work to improve the construction industry and delivery of construction after the 2002 scandal. The best value PIPS method provides an interesting alternative in restoring trust through adequate measurement in process-related management adding to transparency. The introduction of PIPS in the Netherlands was preceded by a brief, somewhat remarkable, history. During the 1996 CIB world congress in Tel Aviv the Rijksgebouwendienst executive George became fascinated by Dean Kashiwagi, who gave a splendid performance in an oral presentation, reduced from 20 to 5 minutes due to failing conference time management, and was introduced to Dean. Later, during the 2003 CIB Congress on Construction Management at the University of Singapore, the two met again when Dean presented in a conference theme chaired by George. Afterwards, George became attracted by the results of the PIPS method in the United States, and informally discussed the 2002 Dutch collusion problem with professor Kashiwagi. This resulted in inviting Dean as a keynote speaker in several Dutch construction management meetings. The rest is history, as visionaries in the Netherlands started testing the best value PIPS under the mentoring of Kashiwagi and his Performance Based Studies Research Group (PBSRG) at Arizona State University. There is the decisive role of (public) procurement, both in professionalising the process as in creating an environment that enhances innovation and dynamic efficiency, moving away from traditional procurement approaches on lowest price only. Apparently large public construction clients (a few ministries) did understand. In the end, others did understand, one thing led to another, and Best Value PIPS is today garnering tremendous interest in the Netherlands. This entire journal will serve to capture the different test efforts that are completed and ongoing in the Netherlands. The Dutch are proud that the PIPS tests being conducted are the largest and most innovative in the world, and show the potential for the industry and academic research to become partners and have major impact on the way business is being done. References Egan, S.J. (1998). Rethinking Construction: The Report of the Construction Task Force to the Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott, on the scope for improving the quality and efficiency of UK construction. The Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions. Latham, M. (1994) Constructing The Team, Final Report of the Government / Industry Review of Procurement and Contractual Arrangements In The UK Construction Industry HMSO. London, 1994, p. 7. PBSRG 2011 Journal for the Advancement of Performance Information and Value VOL. 3 NO. 1 9
13 Ang George Ang Biography George Ang, Former executive at Rijksgebouwendienst (Dutch Government Building Agency) Current position: Director of BPI Building Process Innovation Consult & Research, the Netherlands or George K.I. Ang MArch MSc is an architect and civil engineer by profession. Having designed approximately m2 gross floor area of mainly educational facilities he was highly specialized within that field since the seventies. During the nineties, as an executive at the Dutch Government Building Agency, he had the lead in developing and implementing performance-based procurement in a large-scale design&build programme of courthouses and tax offices all over the country. Today this method has been elaborated as one of the Dutch standards in public procurement practice. As board member of the Dutch Reform Programme in Building and Construction George was assigned to lead an internationally well known pathfinder project Inventory of International Reform in Building and Construction (2004), and back in the Netherlands many national reform actions have been based on the conclusions of his report. After retirement in 2008 George runs BPI Consult & Research, a private consultancy in building process innovation and management. 10 PBSRG 2011 Journal for the Advancement of Performance Information and Value VOL. 3 NO. 1
14 Introduction for the Dutch Special Issue: Historical Overview of Best Value in the Netherlands PBSRG 2011 Journal for the Advancement of Performance Information and Value VOL. 3 NO. 1 11
15 Case Study: Best Value Procurement/Performance Information Procurement System Development Dean Kashiwagi, PhD, Fulbright Scholar, PE Performance Based Studies Research Group, Arizona State University Tempe, AZ, USA. Best Value Procurement/Performance Information Procurement System (BVP/PIPS) has been developed by Dean Kashiwagi and the Performance Based Studies Research Group (PBSRG) from BVP/PIPS is a licensed technology from Arizona State University that includes a deductive logic called Information Measurement Theory (IMT), an industry structure model which shapes the PIPS functions, and a process and structure that transfers risk and control to expert vendors. The BVP/PIPS has gone through numerous stages: the performance information centered PIPS ( ); the PIPS testing phase ( ); and the implementation stage ( ); and the theoretical refinement and standardization of BVP/PIPS technology (2010). BVP/PIPS was introduced into the Netherlands in 2005 by a large general contractor Heijmans, the Rijkeswaterstaat, and aggressively proliferated by Scenter and others. BVP/PIPS usage in the Netherlands is modified to fit within the European procurement law. However, the main advantage of PIPS is the IMT based philosophy of minimized management, direction, and control of expert vendors. Keywords: performance information, value based selection, performance metrics, past performance information Introduction Best Value Procurement/Performance Information Procurement System (BVP/PIPS) was developed and refined by Dean Kashiwagi and his staff at the Performance Based Studies Research Group (PBSRG) at Arizona State University (ASU) (Kashiwagi, 1991; Kashiwagi, 2010). Best value procurement is a process where both price and performance are considered instead of just price (CFMA s, 2006; Chan, 2004; Egan, 1998; PBSRG, 2010; Kashiwagi, 2010). BVP/PIPS is different from other best value processes due to the following: 1. Measures and documents performance and project deviations. 2. Minimizes the client/buyer's management, direction, and control of the vendor/contractor. 3. Does not use the contract to manage, direct, and control the vendor. 4. Does not use negotiation of price. 5. Covers the supply chain delivery from the requirement stage to delivery of the service. 6. Does not require the buyer to identify what is being procured at the beginning of the procurement. 7. Requires the vendor to minimize risk that they do not control. 8. Requires the best value vendor to write the final contract and define the delivered product. 9. Vendors administer their own contract by the minimization of project cost and time deviations. 12 PBSRG 2011 Journal for the Advancement of Performance Information and Value VOL. 3 NO. 1
16 Case Study: Best Value Procurement/Performance Information Procurement System Development 10. Forces the best value vendor to understand that they have full control of the project, and by so doing will manage and minimize the risk and project deviation that is outside of their control, even if caused by the client, or un-foreseen events in the environment. 11. Minimizes the need for technical decision making and expertise of the client's technical representatives. 12. Increases the importance of vendors to show dominant value using performance measurements of their key personnel and processes. 13. Does not require the selection committee to have technical expertise. All submittals are non-technical in nature, and technical questions are not asked or discussed until after the best value prioritization. 14. Minimizes the time and cost for vendors to prepare for the procurement process. 15. Minimizes the exchange of information and communications between the client and vendors during the selection phase. 16. Forces the client's project manager (PM) to be a quality assurance based PM, with nontechnical duties. 17. Defines quality assurance as ensuring that the contractor/vendor is running their quality control/risk management system. 18. Transfers the technical risk and control to the best value vendor by using a process structure that forces the vendor to be an expert. 19. Forces the expert vendor to communicate to everyone in a simple, dominant, nontechnical, language, using performance measurements that can easily be understood by a non-expert. 20. Measures the performance of the other entities in the supply chain that interface with the contractor. BVP/PIPS has been tested over 700 times, delivering construction and other services worth over $2.3B ( ) The results of the BVP/PIPS tests have been (PBSRG, 2010; Kashiwagi, J., 2009): 1. 98% client satisfaction and no vendor caused cost deviation. 2. Minimized up to 90% of the client's risk and project management. 3. Vendors increased profits up to 100% without increasing the cost to the client. BVP/PIPS is now being used to successfully deliver commodities, professional services, nonconstruction services, and Information Technology (IT) services (Sullivan, et. al., 2010; Adeyemi, et. al., 2009; Kashiwagi, J., et. al., 2009; Sullivan and Michael, 2008; Kashiwagi, et. al., 2008; Sullivan and Michael, 2008; Goodridge, et. al., 2007; Kruus, et. al., 2006; Kashiwagi and Savicky, 2004; Kashiwagi, et. al., 2003). Problems in the Delivery of Services The successful delivery of construction and other services has been an issue for the last 20 years (Cahill and Puybaraud, 1994; Egan, 1998; Post, 1998; Adrian, 2001; Chan, and Chan, 2004; Flores, and Chase, 2005; CFMA s, 2006; Simonson, 2006; Lepatner, 2007). Despite technical advancements such as Building Information Management (BIM), LEAN practices, forward thinking scheduling/costing software, and design enhancements, the construction industry has PBSRG 2011 Journal for the Advancement of Performance Information and Value VOL. 3 NO. 1 13
17 Kashiwagi continued to have performance issues. Interestingly, the performance issues are even worse in the IT industry, which is one of the most high tech industries (Brown, 2001; Natovich, 2003; Connolly, 2006; Kappelman, et. al., 2006; Lesca and Caron, 2008; Schneider, Lane and Bruton, 2009; Al-Ahmad, Al-Fagih, et. al., 2009; Computer Weekly, 2010). Another area of service delivery, hospital services, also has performance issues, as one out of every four patients is infected by hospital personnel or unclean equipment (Grady, 2010). The development of BVP/PIPS identified the delivery system of services as the problem and not the lack of technically qualified personnel (Meyer, Witt, Kashiwagi, J. 2010, Kashiwagi, D., 2010) Using a simple industry structure diagram (Figure 1), the following deductive observations were made: 1. Price based has lower performance because the party (client or client's representative) who knows less is giving directions to the party who is supposed to be an expert (vendor). 2. When minimum requirements (are subjectively created and requires interpretation to apply) are used in combination with low price awards, the quality will continually degrade and an adversarial relationship between the client and the vendor will be formed. The client wants low price and high value, and the vendor wants minimum performing systems. 3. When prices and quality decrease, client's management, direction, and control must increase. 4. When the client's management, direction, and control increases, performance and value will decrease, and cost will increase. High Performance Quadrant III Negotiated- Bid -Owner negotiates with vendor -Owner selects vendor Quadrant IV Unstable -Non-performing -Low Competition -Low Performance Quadrant II Best-Value -Performance and Price measurements -Quality control -Vendor Minimizes Risk Quadrant I Price-Based -Specifications -minimum standard & qualification based -Management & Inspection -Client minimizes Risk Low Perceived Competition High Figure 1: Construction Industry Structure (CIS) Price based awards, which does not recognize or give credit to differences in vendor quality, value, and performance will motivate contractors to be more reactive, offer lower quality, not preplan nor utilize expertise. The price based system is nontransparent, requires more decision making which increases risk of deviations and expectations. To move from low performance to higher performance, efficiency must increase, and the following factors must be minimized: cost, 14 PBSRG 2011 Journal for the Advancement of Performance Information and Value VOL. 3 NO. 1
18 Case Study: Best Value Procurement/Performance Information Procurement System Development management, direction, and control from the client. The level of vendor expertise must increase. An increase in performance will only come with increased vendor accountability, preplanning, measurement of performance, and quality and risk management. The best value environment identifies the contractor as an expert, and assigns quality control and risk management to the contractor. In the best value environment, the client's representative has a nontechnical quality assurance role of ensuring that the contractor has a quality control/risk management system that is being used to minimize deviations. The above description of the best value quadrant is a deductive argument that is dominant and utilizes common sense. The design of the BVP/PIPS structure is based on the following deductive logic: 1. Expert vendors have less risk and can deliver quality at a lower price. 2. It is impossible to control a vendor, and any attempt to do so will lead to additional transactions, decision making, increased risk and cost, and less value and quality. 3. Expert vendors have very little technical risk and the risk that they do not control is their only risk. 4. Expert vendors attempt to manage and minimize the risk that they do not control, because it maximizes their profit. 5. Expert vendors preplan, and have proactive risk management systems that manage their risk before it happens. 6. The best value is the best value for the lowest price. The BVP/PIPS process has been refined over the last 16 years. The method of refinement has been (Kashiwagi, D., Savicky et. al., 2003; Kashiwagi, D., Sullivan, et. al., 2008; Sullivan and Michael, 2008; Sullivan and Michael, 2008; Goodridge, Sullivan, et. al., 2007; Adeyemi, Kashiwagi, D., et. al., 2009; Kashiwagi, D., 2010; Sullivan, Kashiwagi, et. al., 2010): 1. To identify an owner/buyer who wants to increase their value and decrease their risk, cost and transactions on a delivered service. 2. Use the hypothesis of the deductive logic described in the previous paragraph. The goal of the tests are to minimize client management and transactions, to help the client do more with less, measure vendor performance and cost and deviations, and identify the source of any deviations. 3. Run a procurement test, using the "latest" BVP/PIPS structure. 4. Document the source of all project deviations. 5. Analyze the test results. Identify problems that could be further minimized improvements to the PIPS structure. 6. Make the modifications in the BVP/PIPS system, and run another test. What differentiates the research philosophy of PBSRG and the BVP/PIPS from traditional construction management research are the following factors: 1. PBSRG runs tests on PIPS. Buyers of construction and other services fund PBSRG to run the tests to deliver their required services. Over 16 years, PBSRG has run over 700 tests delivering over $2.5B of services. 2. PBSRG is using deductive logic (observations), common sense, and dominant information, instead of inductive logic (exploratory work and the heavy dependency/use of industry expert opinion). PBSRG 2011 Journal for the Advancement of Performance Information and Value VOL. 3 NO. 1 15
19 Kashiwagi 3. The peer review for validity of research comes from dominant test results (no vendor caused deviations and client satisfaction) and continuing industry demand for the research (more interested owners/clients who want higher service performance), instead of subjective peer review of other academic researchers. If the developed concepts are wrong, and if the hypothetical proposal to minimize transactions, lower cost, and increase vendor profits is not dominantly proven, the industry will discontinue their funding of the best value PIPS research. The funding of this research is always provided by an industry partners who are at risk, who are funding the research test through their own operational budget that places the industry partner at risk if PIPS does not work. 4. PBSRG runs simultaneous basic theoretical research, prototype testing, and implementation testing, minimizing the time to see results, and having quick access to hypothesis and test results. 5. The testing is run in a synergistic method, where multiple research clients are given access to each other's results. 6. Although the system is being refined, changes are not encouraged unless there is dominant improvement to the service value or increased sustainability of the visionary s position. 7. Value is measured in terms of customer satisfaction, project deviations, and the project management/risk management effort. Traditional construction management academic research funding does not have access to owners/buyers who are willing to turn over their delivery of services to academic researchers. PBSRG uses the deductive and dominant logic of PIPS to convince owners/buyers to adopt the PIPS system, and to become partners in the development of the process. PBSRG and their research partners continually review the theoretical basic concepts, the unique project, and implementation and sustainability of the system. Major Components of the PIPS Research The BVP/PIPS structural development and refinement has had five major components: 1. Information Measurement Theory (IMT) The deductive logic that defines why things can happen only one way, why they are predictable, and how that can be used to predict the capability of experts. Major components of IMT include the concepts of the explanation of variation, chance, randomness, management vs. leadership, influence, control, and the issue of nature vs. nurture. 2. Kashiwagi Solution Model (KSM.) The KSM is a part of IMT, but because it is plays such a major part of PIPS, it is being highlighted as a major component. The KSM is a deductive representation of the extreme opposite of a "Type A" or visionary person and a "Type C" or management based person. The deductive extremes are dominant observations (simple and easy to observe, which minimizes the need for different individuals to make decisions). Based on the results of KSM analysis, the following concepts were developed: experts are able to simplify seemingly complex technical issues and processes by using simple, non-technical explanations, and use dominant information which is easily understood by other less expert people. This led to minimized need of client/buyer decision making, and minimized flow of information. 16 PBSRG 2011 Journal for the Advancement of Performance Information and Value VOL. 3 NO. 1
20 Case Study: Best Value Procurement/Performance Information Procurement System Development 3. Construction Industry Structure (CIS) Analysis (Figure 1). The CIS explanation of why PIPS has dominant value, and why the majority of project/risk management concepts are not accurate or efficient. 4. Performance Information Procurement System (PIPS). The actual delivery structure for optimization of the supply chain and the alignment of resources to minimize management, direction and control, and increase accountability, transparency, and value. 5. Performance Information Risk Management System (PIRMS). When the selection/award phase of PIPS is not used, and only the last risk management phase is utilized, the system is called PIRMS. It includes the weekly risk report (WRR), the risk management plan (RMP), and the Director s Report (DR) which integrates and simplifies multiple project risk information into a dominant risk report. The IMT concepts have changed the least. From its inception, the concepts have maintained their essence. PBSRG is continually researching potential flaws in the IMT by looking at current events and analyzing them for inconsistency with IMT. This includes the areas of genetics, psychology and psychiatry, political systems including results of war, penal systems, and attempts to control the behavior of people, and dominant performers in their respective areas. The major IMT concepts that form the underlying structure of PIPS include: 1. Everything is predictable given all information. 2. All events happen only one way, have only one outcome, and can be predicted if someone has all the information on the initial conditions or start of the event. 3. The concept that one individual or party can influence, control, or change another individual or entity has not been dominantly proven, and the attempt to use influence or control results in transactions, unmet expectations, actions that are not timely and are not logical, and usually result in higher time and cost deviations. 4. Experts can predict the future outcome, explain it very simply, preplan the project to minimize technical and non-technical risk that they do not control, minimize cost and optimizing profit by efficiently doing the process. IMT concepts have been tested by the author for the past 37 years in his personal life and in the leading of his family, which included his wife and eight children. IMT was first extensively tested out in the Kashiwagi family before it was implemented in the BVP/PIPS process. The KSM model were created to teach the eight children consistency, and to make it simple and clear for the Kashiwagi children to understand reality, even if they had minimal experiences to draw from. It was to provide a "dominant" platform that they could use successfully with a limited amount of information and decision making. The construction industry structure (CIS) was first created in 1991, as a part of the author's PhD dissertation (Kashiwagi, 1991). There have been three major additions/changes to the understanding of the CIS: 1. Understanding that the CIS applied to all industries (2007.) 2. Merging of the Kashiwagi Solution Model (KSM) concept to the CIS (2008/2009) to make the teaching of BVP/PIPS quicker. 3. Changing of the "competition" horizontal axis label to "perceived competition" (2010). PBSRG 2011 Journal for the Advancement of Performance Information and Value VOL. 3 NO. 1 17
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As the article says, Measles was wiped out in Australia due to immunisation and there is no longer wild measles in this country.
HOWEVER because the levels of immunisation have dropped so much, when it is brought here from overseas (in this case Thailand) it spreads throughout the community.
Measles is not harmless, it kills kids all the time and babies cannot be vaxxed until they are 1 and not fully vaxxed until they are four.
This disease was wiped out in Australia, its return is due to those people who choose not to immunise . Measles is hundreds of times more likely to hurt your kids than MMR vaccine. How many kids are hospitalised or die from vaccines versus how many kids are hospitalised and die from measles.
Seems to be a general lack of education in the community about vaccine risk versus disease risk and this is truly sad and scary.
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I will take issue with "homoeopathically vaxed". That's an oxymoron. There is no such thing.
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Google has a lot to answer for…as does playboy bunny Jenny macarthy and corrupt ex scientist Wakefield.
Sadly the posts i am reading here are indicating that alot of the people who choose not vaccinate do not even understand vaccinations - I suppose you don't know what you don't you know - so essentially that is why we put our trust in those who actually study medicine not people who know how to search for anti vaccine propoganda.
At uni last year they used the example of parents googling and reading what they thought was scientific evidence to make their decisions and specifically talked about the immunisation issue - and ultimately you need to understand science and statistics to interpret studies - which means unless you have studied statistics at university level you probably wouldnt really understand the very studies you are basing your decisions on. Its just the way it is…and for those basing on gut feel - well that is not a reliable method when it comes to medicine. Medicine is based on facts not feelings - feelings are not reliable and are tainted with our personal opinion and experience and NOT the world view or greater knowledge of a topic that science can provide.
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Yes the science appears to be quite a joke to some of you. I assume you are non vaxers.
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