AbstractsBusiness Management & Administration

In new integrated contracts such as the DBFMO, the Rijksvastgoedbedrijf (Dutch Government Building Agency) tries to publicly tender the full life-cycle responsibility of the Design, Build, Finance, Maintenance & Operate to a single party. In order to convey all terms of the DBFMO contract, an initiating subscriber looks for other disciplines (e.g. architects, engineering firm, facility management etc.) to form consortiums, and to subscribe to DBFMO tender competitions. Although working in the same industry, disciplines such as architects, engineers, contractors come up with very different backgrounds and ways-of-working. This research contributes to the management sciences of interdisciplinary collaboration in integrated building construction projects. Its objectives are to understand (in theory and practice) the complexity of interdisciplinary collaboration in public tender DBFMO design competitions, and from this to induce roles and instruments to optimise collaboration, which is reflected on by practice.