Has anyone ever used ?
We've submitted a few tenders (approx 10) and can never seem to get a look in.
You would be entitled to contact the procurement officer in the organisation issuing the RFT/awarding the contract and ask how the process was conducted and how applicants were scored.
We could easily do these contracts for far less money, and probably better service, (payroll), but tenders are often specifically engineered for target companies.I understand that certian contracts would be oustide our remit e.g. NAMA, but there are payroll and accounts contracts that could easily be done by smaller firms.
I am sure it is fine for supply of goods and general contracts, but for the more specialised stuff they will go with the big names. As they say, 'No on eever got fired for buying IBM'.
In relation to this, has anyone received an email about a "Successful Tendering" course being run in Dublin from a company called Tenders Direct ?
This is what I've heard as well.What you have to remember is that 'most' of these tenders are already unofficially awarded. This is obviously not meant to be the case but alas its true.
Hi guys,
What you have to remember is that 'most' of these tenders are already unofficially awarded. This is obviously not meant to be the case but alas its true.
The company that is 'awarded' the tender, in most cases write the tender documents to the specification of their offering.
I have given up on these tenders as they have proven in my particular case to be a waste of time and effort for zilch at the end.
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This is what I've heard as well.
I am sure it is fine for supply of goods and general contracts, but for the more specialised stuff they will go with the big names. As they say, 'No on eever got fired for buying IBM'.
Lehmans was large and successful, doesn't look like they were that good though. Mircosoft was small once. With this attitude, they still would be small.On a number of occassions we've had to tidy up the mess from smaller companies who got a deal and have bitten off more then they can chew. There is a reason large successful companies are large and successful, it's because they tend to be consistantly good at what they do and have the resources when issues arrise
How do you prove this? Like most 'soft corruption', it's often subtle.While this stuff did happen in FAS, I am very skeptical about claims that it is generally happening across the board. If you believe it is, let's get some examples on the table - all the tenders are already in the public domain, so please tell us which specific tenders were written by a supplier, or even which were written in a way that favours a specific supplier.
So give us the examples of where these conditions have been used?How do you prove this? Like most 'soft corruption', it's often subtle.
A tender could be written:
"The successful applicant should be in business for at least 10 years, and have at least 50 employees"
There might be only one company that has this. They obviously would never explicitly name the supplier.