The reports claim CertCo was ditched in a bid to ensure vendor neutrality for the final service. According to Financial Times reports, the scheme is due to start on 1 January, and will use encryption technology from Baltimore Technologies to...
A consortium of 22 shareholders has put in a rival bid to save troubled ERP software company Baan. Baan shareholders vote on the proposed Invensys cash bid at an extraordinary general meeting on 29 June.
If the elves on the production line found themselves short of little plastic machetes due to a rush order of Jungle Warrior action figures, Santa could publish a tender on the exchange and get suppliers to bid and deliver at the drop of a hat.
However, although in the early e-auction carried out in March five instead of two companies were invited to bid, the contract ended up going to the existing supplier. O2 is claiming to have saved around £4.5m in procurement costs since spring this...
Who knows; with a bid of faith on both sides perhaps we'll soon see more organisations sailing off into the sunset with the supplier of their dreams. It equates the procurement process with courtship - with the European Union
procurement rules...
In order to be successful the suppliers need to understand the public procurement process and be realistic about what they bid for. For example, the first phase is to provide a snapshot of the company, then put in a bid to tender - which is done by...