PhD Final Thesis April 2013.pdf - Anglia Ruskin Research Online

Thesis Keith Gale 2013H2: Framework agreements can provide significant performance improvementscompared with traditional discrete tendering methods in terms of overallproject outcomes.H2 proposes that overall project outcomes from use of framework agreements willproduce significant improvements with performance. The proposition relies uponcalculation of a project success index from aggregation of critical success factorsdetermined by a client. If a project fulfils complete satisfaction in terms of all criticalsuccess factors the maximum value assigned will be 1.0. Graphical representation ofthe effect of framework verses discrete projects is shown in Figure 7.7, whereincreased surface area contained within boundaries is proportional to increasedperformance.Group statistics results show an increase in overall project performance from .677 to.924 (stage one all projects), and from .677 to .908 (stage two matched projects) bymoving from traditional discrete to framework systems. Analysis using independentt-tests and Eta results indicate that the magnitude of difference is large.Overall project outcomes represented by PSI for both stages produce p values notexceeding 0.05 and therefore support the proposition of H2.166