Procurement

Is your tender box empty? Four ways to attract the best suppliers. Procurement

Is your tender box empty? Four ways to attract the best suppliers.

By Peter Silcock, chief executive, Civil Contractors New Zealand With investment in infrastructure topping $11 billion a year, more and more clients are saying that they can’t get enough contractors to bid for their work. This is a major issue for local authorities because without healthy competition it’s hard to get good value for...
Favouring local suppliers – What’s your council’s policy? Procurement

Favouring local suppliers – What’s your council’s policy?

Should councils support local suppliers or just go for the best deal? And where can they get guidance on this? Clever Buying’s Caroline Boot looks at our government’s position on ‘buy local’, runs her eye over some overseas models, and compares the approaches taken by different New Zealand councils. The recent outcry in Dunedin...
Tender topics: Which qualification? Procurement

Tender topics: Which qualification?

There are now some new options for procurement qualifications. But which one is right 
for your council? Caroline Boot outlines the options. What could be more important to government organisations in 2016 than getting best value for money within their limited budgets? Developing sharp, effective procurement skills is at the heart of...
Love Me Tender: Clever procurement strategies Procurement

Love Me Tender: Clever procurement strategies

In the past, tender writing and procurement has often been a painful, expensive and even pointless exercise. Now a new Clever Buying course is lifting the lid on value at the tender box. Caroline Boot, from tender specialist company Plan A, explains. My first dozen years in the business of writing tender responses revealed a...
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