STUDY OF PRACTICES TO FACE THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN MAINTAINING THE BUSINESS CONTINUITY OF SMALL CONTRACTOR

• Main Author: Ryandika
• Format: Theses
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/65666
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

Small contractors play an important role in the development of the national construction sector because they dominate the number of existing contractors. With the characteristics of small contractors, the Covid-19 pandemic has had a significant impact. The Covid-19 pandemic has been going on for two years, so it is important for all parties to be able to take lessons if a similar condition reoccurs. For this reason, a study is needed to obtain an overview of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on small contractors and their practices to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic situation in terms of several components of marketing, human resources, supply chain, operations and finance. In addition, it is also necessary to describe how the practices of the parties (clients/owners and suppliers) in carrying out their respective functions in order to deal with the negative impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic. By using descriptive analysis, the results show that the main impact felt by small contractors is that material prices fluctuate, difficult to carry out marketing with activities restiction, construction market is reduced, difficult to get additional capital, project cash flows disruption, project profits decreased, projects could temporarily suspend if workers affected by Covid-19, and difficult to control workers who ignore the Covid-19 protocol. Based on the survey results, the practices made by contractors must pay more attention to the impact of marketing and seek additional capital to maintain their business, clients/owners need to help contractors more to overcome financial problems due to the Covid-19 pandemic and keep the project from becoming a new cluster for the spread of Covid-19, and suppliers need to establish business cooperation with contractors so that there are no problems in terms of project resources. To deal with the future construction industry, all parties (contractors, clients/owners and suppliers) must be able to take advantage of technological developments, both information technology and construction technology to have resilience to similar conditions such as the Covid- 19 pandemic