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What would be appropriate procurement models (including tenders) for the government to buy goods and services?
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Comment 1 31 Jan 2012, 11:13 AM
Question 5
This query attempts to over simplify what is normally considered as part of the procurement process. There is no one model that will work in all situations. There is nothing wrong with panel contracts in themselves. However, the panel contracts if they are to be effective need to be limited in the numer of vendors that attain a contract, otherwise all you have is a group of companies with agreed T&C's. In regards specifically to panels, the NSW government would be best to limit the panels to a small and select group of companies or organisations in each category more…
Comment 1.1 31 Jan 2012, 11:34 AM
Additionally:
Question 8 - Open tenders are rarely the best approach to market. If the market is understood, there are generally a small number of players that the organisation will want to deal with for a particular engagement. It is expensive both from an assessment perspective for government, and it means that a number of vendors that do not have the righ solution tender and waste their resources. Targeted tendering is more effective, efficient and allows for more rapid delivery of outcomes.
The process is complex from an internal perspective. The rules are complex and a little onerous on the suppliers, more…
Comment 2 29 Feb 2012, 5:20 PM
There are inherent problems and benefits with the various procurement processes around Australia. It's interesting the amount of criticism that is placed on the current panel contract structure in NSW. Not sure, how many are from venders or from within Government.
It’s interesting that other states started with specific tenders for equipment and deemed the process to be time consuming, expensive and are now adopting some Panel Contract processes to reduce duplication of tenders, and are benefiting from this in terms of value for money, costs to the government and to the vendors
I’ve heard of a tendering system used in one more…
