Sustainability concerning to public procurement process in construction: literature review

Abstract

In the year 1977, economy of Sri Lanka liberalised and opened up to foreign market with investment to deregulate domestic construction industry. Further, the economy has shown transition features since 2009, after end of 30 years’ war. Public Procurement Process (PPP) mainly considers satisfaction of the stakeholders in line with development objectives of the country. Hence the PPP is the integral part of economic development of the country. However, the economic development of Sri Lanka has shown lagging features when compared to economic history of other developed countries due to the reasons that the existing PPP has not given fullest uplift in line with current global requirement. Thus, the practitioners in the industry should find the way to enhance and upgrade the existing PPP to link with available challenges. Literature revealed that developed countries have utilised numbers of benefits by implementing Sustainable Public Procurement Process (SPPP). Accordingly, incorporate the sustainability concerns than the time, cost, and quality aspect to the existing PPP is one of the best practicable and cost effective possible alternative solutions to bridge the gap. Thus, this paper focused on detailed analysis on sustainable concerning to PPP with in Sri Lankan context base on secondary data. Hence, relevant areas scrutinised through the comprehensive literature review to achieve the objectives of the study. Further, experts in the field of procurement also consulted to gather the opinions and views in order to evaluate the feasibility of desired outcomes.