Advantages and effectiveness of project implementation through nominated sub-contractor in JKR building construction project

Abstract

The issue of delay in the completion of the project is often reported and discussed at the top management level in JKR. In relation to that, there was an issue raised during the presentation in the JKR Senior Officials Conference (SOC 2016 stating the cause of the delay in the project implemented in JKR was due to the delay in appointing the nominated sub-contractor (NSC). The proposed solution to the problem is to implement the expertise scope of work by package to the main contractor. The purpose of this study is to identify the effectiveness and advantages of projects undertaken by NSC. The method used in this study is a combination of qualitative and quantitative analysis. There are many past studies that have listed several of the most common factors towards the project success. However, the specific study of factors involving sub-contractors for JKR projects is rarely found. Besides getting the relevant factors from the previous researches, this study also uses an interview session with the relevant respondents to obtain other factors closer to the scope of the study. For the qualitative method, it uses a questionnaire that has been distributed to the relevant respondents for getting their feedback. The analysis was then carried out using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) to obtain the correlation value that can be used to establish the relationship between the independent to the dependent variables in this study. Five hypotheses testing that have been developed to test independent variables are acceptable. In addition, further analysis also found that communication factors between the main and sub-contractor contractors were the most important contributors to achieving excellent project submissions.