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The paper discusses a number of construction project logistics problems, with focus on supply systems, and presents the results of recent survey of Polish contractors' supply routines. On the basis of the survey, patterns of development of logistic systems have been described. The enclosed results of cost simulations indicate that outsourcing supply logistic processes, considering the current state of Polish construction market, may reduce costs. The paper emphasises that creating logistic guidelines of a project at its early stages of planning and then a design of integrated logistic service to the project may help find ways of making a construction project more effective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]