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Atricle Dump - Successful Tendering - There Are Many Solutions
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We all have a responsibility to ensure that we challenge the thinking that is presented in the de
Are you disorganized to the point of finding yourself spending more time trying to locate things rather than actually working?Typically at work there are probably two main areas that lead to a sense of complete disorganization: 1. Your deskIf you're the type of person who believes that how busy you are at work has a direct correlation to the amount of paper on your desk, you need to get this thought out of your head.Do you print out virtually everything that you come into contact with and then pop it onto a pile on your desk for future reference? Have you run out of space on your desk to actually create new piles?Start by figuring out the difference
One of the great mysteries of the “open” competitive tendering process is that each of us has experienced defeat. What mystifies us is that there must have been a mistake – we had the best solution. Of course we did. So did the other three unsuccessful tenderers as did, we hope, the successful one!
So, consider this hypothetical tender, which simply asks for a proposal to “make the following equation true by only adding one line to it”:
I X = V I
Simple enough. Prepare your team to consider what is being asked. Review all the documentation to ensure that nothing has been overlooked. And prepare your tender. You do this, and your tender response is simply:
I X (does not equal sign) V I
Compliant. One line added to the equal sign to make the equation true and correct. Clearly the winning tender – or is it?
As with all projects and activities, there may be many approaches that could be implemented to lead to the same minimum requirements. And this is good and vitally important if we genuinely seek solutions that create long-term sustainable benefits. Still, we can do more than just meeting ‘minimum requirements’ to ensure compliance.
We all have a responsibility to ensure that we challenge the thinking that is presented in the de
When you read the glossies have you ever wondered how these real-life effects are produced? It is the result of technology, digital printing to be precise. Digital printing is a process which uses electronic files to create prints with laser or inkjet printers.Digital printing is the new-generation process which requires a minimal press setup. The print proofing, processes, and so on are cost-effective, and you can even do “short runs” or small print orders. Digital printing has many advantages. It produces less waste, uses fewer hazardous chemicals, and is comparatively environmentally friendly.By using digital printing you have no limits –your document can have paper-thin im
So, consider this hypothetical tender, which simply asks for a proposal to “make the following equation true by only adding one line to it”:
I X = V I
Simple enough. Prepare your team to consider what is being asked. Review all the documentation to ensure that nothing has been overlooked. And prepare your tender. You do this, and your tender response is simply:
I X (does not equal sign) V I
Compliant. One line added to the equal sign to make the equation true and correct. Clearly the winning tender – or is it?
As with all projects and activities, there may be many approaches that could be implemented to lead to the same minimum requirements. And this is good and vitally important if we genuinely seek solutions that create long-term sustainable benefits. Still, we can do more than just meeting ‘minimum requirements’ to ensure compliance.
We all have a responsibility to ensure that we challenge the thinking that is presented in the de
In the mid 1990s a few individuals and companies, seeing the potential of the relatively unknown Internet, took advantage of this new medium and got a head start on everyone else. Similarly, today a few innovative companies have enthusiastically embraced web and video conferencing and are reporting great benefits from this under-used application.Who is making use of web and video conferencing, and how are they using it? Here is a look at some of the enterprises and institutions that are being transformed by the intelligent use of this up-and-coming technology.Ever conscious of rising costs, schools and universities are using web/video conferencing to conduct administrative me
I X (does not equal sign) V I
Compliant. One line added to the equal sign to make the equation true and correct. Clearly the winning tender – or is it?
As with all projects and activities, there may be many approaches that could be implemented to lead to the same minimum requirements. And this is good and vitally important if we genuinely seek solutions that create long-term sustainable benefits. Still, we can do more than just meeting ‘minimum requirements’ to ensure compliance.
We all have a responsibility to ensure that we challenge the thinking that is presented in the de
With modern wire EDM machines utilizing CNC (the Computer Control, or the brains of the machine if you will) for production, there is a user-interface device, the computer, where the worker will input the required data for design that will eventually guide the wire EDM machine during the passes and cuts in the process of creating the final product. Moreover, like any computer today, software is needed to run the equipment. This is no different in wire EDM. The CNC Controller and the software application comprise the wire EDM technology.In much the same way that many different software applications for word processing or email exist, so to are there numerous wire EDM technology softwa
As with all projects and activities, there may be many approaches that could be implemented to lead to the same minimum requirements. And this is good and vitally important if we genuinely seek solutions that create long-term sustainable benefits. Still, we can do more than just meeting ‘minimum requirements’ to ensure compliance.
We all have a responsibility to ensure that we challenge the thinking that is presented in the de
1. Be on time. Despite what you may have heard about Southern European customs, Spaniards are punctual (at least as punctual as traffic snarls permit). If you arrive first, either wait in the bar or ask for the table that has been reserved.2. Lunch rarely starts before 2:30 p.m. Spain runs on a different schedule than the rest of Europe. Most Spaniards begin the day with a light continental breakfast on the way to work, take a break at 11 a.m. for coffee, have lunch at 2:30 p.m. and then dine at 9:30 p.m. or later. A business lunch will take at least an hour and a half, and two and a half hours is not unusual.3. A luncheon is a social occasion first, a business event second. P
We all have a responsibility to ensure that we challenge the thinking that is presented in the design, the tender documentation, donor policy etc, not just to prepare a response that ‘meets’ stated requirements. If we did not do this, then the tendering process would simply come down to a price comparison, which does not necessarily translate to the best solution to the problem.
So who is the “we” to take all this responsibility? Is it us as individuals? Is it the managing contractors? Agencies? Clearly, it is all of us in whatever role we are adopting as it relates to a tender or activity in question.
The tendering process should remain directly connected to the activity’s implementation and its results. So during the preparation of the submission some key questions need always be asked:
•Why are we doing this
•Who are we targeting
•Where will any impac be realised
•How will we know
•How would we measure it
And there are probably many more, all of which have something in common – starting with the end in mind.
This responsibility to ask key questions does not rest solely with those preparing the tender response.
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