Tendering: The price is right?

Trowers & Hamlins LLP | Procurement & Outsourcing Journal | January/February 2016 #28
Rebecca Rees reviews the evaluation of tender pricing ‘It is suggested that contracting authorities reconsider the overall evaluation methodology, rather than try and mitigate the risk of abnormally low or suicidal bids through altering the overall price/quality split.’Contracting authorities procuring in the economic downturn have been poorly served by traditional approaches to evaluating price. The …

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Procurement: Taking the high road

Jack Hayward | Procurement & Outsourcing Journal | September/October 2011 #2
In the first of a regular feature, Jack Hayward takes a sideways look at the highs and lows of procurement practice ‘Until we see the draft regulations we can only speculate as to how the government proposes to reconcile the desire to promote local interest with the Public Procurement Regulations 2006.’In the late 1990s I …

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