Abstract:
Contract strategy is considered as a process of selecting organizational and
contractual policies required for the execution of a specific project.
The main objective of this study was to examine various contract strategies which
are being used by the Dar es Salaam Municipal Councils in the execution of its civil
and building construction projects. The specific objectives were to identify various
contract strategies used in the execution of construction projects by Dar es Salaam
Municipal Councils, to establish the criteria used in selecting contract strategies, to
find out the challenges faced in selecting contract strategies and to propose a
framework for the best contract strategy for various projects in Dar es Salaam
Municipal Councils
In the process of examining the contract strategies for projects used in Local
Government, Dar es Salaam Municipal Councils, including Temeke, Ilala and
Kinondoni were selected as the case study. Questionnaires were distributed to the
workers of the three Municipal Council’s works departments, including engineers,
quantity surveyors, architects and senior technicians.
Data analysis was succeeded by data collection whereby it was conducted by using
the SPSS program in which 46 questionnaires out of 60 distributed questionnaires
were returned. The findings of this study shows project management contract
strategy is commonly used in most of the projects within these Municipalities
followed by design and build and traditional contract strategies and the other contract
strategies were very rarely utilized.
In recommendations; the Municipalities must be providing and supporting regular
training to its contract management team to update their staff to newly introduced
technologies and apparently selection of the contract strategy shall be depending on
the characteristics of the individual project and not to be generalized
