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W4_ISHAQ_System_hosting Problem Definition We are working to procure a Market Management System (MMS) for Oman electricity market. Once the development is completed by the vendor, we will be looking for a place to host the system hardware. Development of Feasible Alternatives There are three options for hosting the MMS: 1.        The company premise data center 2.        Renting a co-location service from a hosting company 3.        Hosting the system in the cloud (e.g.: Google) Development of the Outcome for Alternative We are looking for an option that is cost effective, available and legal. So, I adopt these attributes as the outline to make our decision. Selection of Criteria Table 1 lists the comparison date for the three alternatives. Table 1. Data Alternative Analysis and Comparison of the Alterna...

Problem Definition In Blogs posted in W2 and W3, external stakeholders of any project (mainly IPP project) during the development stage were analysed. In this blog, the internal stakeholders will be analysed using similar method that was used in W2 blog.   Identify the Feasible Alternative Similarly, the internal stakeholders are more effective to the project and more management work is required for a project to be successful without any delays. The stakeholders normally fall into categories which are [2]: • Beneficiaries: usually are the end users or any party that will benefit by the completion of the project. • Negative Beneficiaries: this could be a temporary or permanent impact to any stakeholder usually in the execution phase of the project. • Implementers:  in this case, the implementers are defined by the project developer who will be Building, Owning and operating the project.  • Decision makers: usually being the government agencies or...

Problem Statement: For every new project (Independent Water or Independent Power Project) , there is the process of hiring technical supervisory consultants to support the Implementation Team starting the execution of the project until commercial operation. Because OPWP is dealing with large-scale, multi-million projects and ensuring safe and reliable operation of the plants for the term of the contract, it is extremely important to award the supervisory services contract to the highly qualified and competent engineering firm. This blog will examine the selection criteria of the bids. Feasible Alternative: Evaluation of an advisory consultant can be done based on the following methods: 1) Quality and Cost-Based Selection (QCBS). 2) Quality-Based Selection (QBS). 3) Fixed-Budget Selection (FBS). 4) Least-Cost Selection (LCS).  Outcomes of the Alternatives: Quality and Cost-Based Selection (QCBS). This method is used when quality and budget are importan...