During the project early phase, considering a bidding process (BP), a client makes a request for a work or service to potential providers and then he chooses, by analyzing the responses, the one that will be accepted. From the bidder point of view, there are several risks when responding because...

Distributed environments, technological evolution, outsourcing market and information technology (IT) are factors that considerably influence current and future industrial maintenance management. Repairing and maintaining the plants and installations requires a better and more sophisticated...