Critical factors influencing the bid or no-bid decision of the indigenous small building contractors in Tanzania

Design/methodology/approach – An interpretivist epistemological design was adapted to extensively manually review and search extant literature on bid or no bid decision making criteria. A total of 30 most common bid/no bid decision making criteria were identified. These were included in a questionnaire survey data collection instrument. The survey was distributed to 40 small indigenous building contractors in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. 33 responses were received. Response data was subjected to both descriptive and inferential statistics.