CONTRACTING FOR BUILDING AND CIVIL ENGINEERING PROJECTS: THE PUBLIC PROCUREMENT ACT,2007 AND THE QUANTITY SURVEYING PROFESSION

ABSTRACT This work examined the extent of participation of Quantity Survey in construction project contracts commencing from the bidding stage through the contract stage and the handing over stage. The publie procurement act (2007) which was signed with law by the goveror or the president yara'dua in 2007 was a bold attempt to eliminate corrupt practices in construction contract execution. The importance of this work is to have a paradigm shift from old ways of procurement of construction works to a method that is in tune with the hand of things where governments are making serious efforts to give transparency to construction businesses by having a study of the extent involvement of quantity surveyors in the procurement of construction works.In doing this work, both the primary and secondary sources of sourcing of information was deployed. Questionnaires were used to source though the primary method,while review of relevant works done on the works served as the secondary source. Collected data was analyzed using the chi square methods and findings and conclusions pointed to the need to review the membership of the National council for public procurement council to give Quantity surveys more prominent position in the PPA method of procurement. Recommendation was made for further case such as this study was only for Enugu metropolis. There is need to expand the study to wider areas.