Improving the Collaboration between Main Contractors and Subcontractors within Traditional Construction Procurement

Table 3

How often project participants take decisions jointly.

Variables (level of occurrence)	Weighting (1 = strongly disagree, 5 = strongly agree)	Main contractors	Clients	Specialist contractors/subcontractors	Consultancy	Total score
Never (frequency)	1
Score		0	0	0	0	0
Occasionally (frequency)	2	6	4	5	2
Score		12	8	10	4	34
Do not know (frequency)	3	4
Score		12	0	0	0	12
Often (frequency)	4		5	3	2
Score		0	20	12	8	40
Very often (frequency)	5	2	2		2
Score		10	10	0	10	30

Score = weighting × frequency.