Hi all
I think Martha's point is absolutely right, and certainly from our POV
we've been lucky enough to get almost 100% of our work referred.
re. Tony's point - t's certainly the case that companies like ours
simply don't have the time or resources (or *need* to spend this time,
given how busy we are without it!) going through massive tender
documents. I do worry that along the way the kind of procurement that is
typically a part of this kind of "big IT" can often miss off the
smaller, more creative, more interesting agencies and individuals - but
at the same time there are obviously checks and balances that need to be
met when spending fairly large pots of (public) money.
We quite often see the trickle-down effect that Tony mentioned - we'll
get contacted by a larger agency who has done and won a tender and wants
a partner to do some of the work - and I don't really have a problem
with this. The only downside is that longer billing chains typically
involve a slice to each agency along the way so the end result is always
going to be more expensive..
cheers
Mike
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Tony Crockford wrote:
> On 28 Aug 2014, at 14:27, Martha Henson<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Would be interesting to hear other's experiences on
>> this though.
>
> My personal view on tendering is that it actually excludes the best value for money option in favour of a large company that can afford the resources to respond to a tender and has the credit scoring to meet tender requirements *and then* the bid winner will often outsource the actual work to freelancers or smaller agencies that would have offered better VFM in the first place.
>
> I’ve lost faith in the process. IMHO it means that money is being wasted making big companies bigger.
>
> :o(
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