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Tag: <span>Encouraging competition</span>
Home Posts tagged "Encouraging competition"

Tag: Encouraging competition

Working well within their procurement policies and guidelines, government and corporate procurement staff can do many things to encourage and facilitate competition: issuing simpler, clearer RFPs; managing the statement of requirement or statement of work so that it meets industry capabilities; setting reasonable response standards.

Every Bloody Rake

14 March 2022 14 March 2022  Encouraging competition, Managing bid documents, Managing risk 2

Cataloguing the problems and suggesting a high-level set of solutions.

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Term: Request for Expression of Interest

28 May 2021 28 May 2021  Encouraging competition, Terms starting with R

A procurement tool used to identify probable level of competition in a planned procurement, by requesting non-binding expressions of interest on the opportunity as defined. Sometimes called Request for Letter of Interest. If Expression and Letter of Interest are meaningfully different, the distinction escapes me.

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Term: Showstopper

14 April 2021 14 April 2021  Encouraging competition, Managing risk, Terms starting with S 2

Watch out for these . . .

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Term: Level Playing Field

10 August 2020 31 July 2020  Encouraging competition, Terms starting with L 2

Indicates that a competition is fair . . .

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Contracting 101: Risky Business

29 July 2020 25 July 2020  Encouraging competition, Managing bid documents, Managing for low price

What it means for a business to take a risk.

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Two Mistakes about Competitors

Sometimes we assume that our competitors are far smarter than we are, better informed and harder working.

And sometimes we assume that they’re clueless, lazy and hapless.

Neither is true.

Seth's Blog

Effort is not Perfectionism

More effort creates beauty and magic and remarkability.

Perfectionism is a false hope and a place to hide.

Effort, on the other hand, is our best chance to do work that matters.

Source: Seth's Blog (like, where else?)

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