Comments on: procurement + sustainable economic growth http://www.nickwrightplanning.co.uk/procurement-sustainable-economic-growth.htm people, place & planning Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:32:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Nick http://www.nickwrightplanning.co.uk/procurement-sustainable-economic-growth.htm/comment-page-1#comment-2695 Nick Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:01:04 +0000 http://www.nickwrightplanning.co.uk/procurement-sustainable-economic-growth.htm#comment-2695 Thanks Richard. Worth checking out the Scottish Government's new Scottish Sustainable Procurement Action Plan, published in October. It purports to be about helping small and medium sized businesses flourish... http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2009/10/sspap#a5 Thanks Richard.

Worth checking out the Scottish Government’s new Scottish Sustainable Procurement Action Plan, published in October. It purports to be about helping small and medium sized businesses flourish…

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2009/10/sspap#a5

]]> By: Richard Heggie http://www.nickwrightplanning.co.uk/procurement-sustainable-economic-growth.htm/comment-page-1#comment-2693 Richard Heggie Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:24:49 +0000 http://www.nickwrightplanning.co.uk/procurement-sustainable-economic-growth.htm#comment-2693 Nick There's a serious productivity issue here. I hear of consultancies spending days just at the PQQ stage preparing unsuccessful bids, where there are dozens of others in competition. You get a scenario where 25 consultancies spend 2 days or more on a PQQ where the project value is £25,000. Result? The time wasted bidding unsuccessfully is worth twice as much as the project itself. And that's before shortlisting! Sadly, there are just too many companies chasing too little work. Fortunately, that doesn't include Urban Animation! The last bid I got involved in resulted in the work being awarded to the firm everyone expected to get the job right at the beginning of the process. Unlike everyone else, they were 'invited to tender'! That's not to say they weren't well placed to undertake the work but if there were 'preferred' bidders, why wasn't there a shortlist, avoiding the need for a wasteful PQQ exercise? Nick
There’s a serious productivity issue here. I hear of consultancies spending days just at the PQQ stage preparing unsuccessful bids, where there are dozens of others in competition. You get a scenario where 25 consultancies spend 2 days or more on a PQQ where the project value is £25,000. Result? The time wasted bidding unsuccessfully is worth twice as much as the project itself. And that’s before shortlisting!
Sadly, there are just too many companies chasing too little work. Fortunately, that doesn’t include Urban Animation! The last bid I got involved in resulted in the work being awarded to the firm everyone expected to get the job right at the beginning of the process. Unlike everyone else, they were ‘invited to tender’! That’s not to say they weren’t well placed to undertake the work but if there were ‘preferred’ bidders, why wasn’t there a shortlist, avoiding the need for a wasteful PQQ exercise?

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