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Easing the Government Procurement Process
The Government has today announced that they are looking at improving Government procurement practices. This is a good thing – there are certainly some improvements to be made.
Decisions on procurement can determine how government delivers its functions and services. The government’s procurement reform agenda will drive cost savings, releasing fiscal savings to be used in other priority areas.
Substantial cost savings will be delivered with the establishment of Centres of Expertise within lead agencies to negotiate all-of-government contracts in common-spend areas.
One area that needs significant improvement is the documentation associated with tendering. Many Government tenders require a fair amount of associated information, such as demonstration of previous projects, and profiles of individuals. This has to be replicated in some form for each and every tender. It would be very useful if part of this reform process involved the creation of a website where businesses were able to load both business and personnel profiles and instead of having to include these with each and every tender. In fact, if they were quite smart about lowering business red tape associated with Government tenders, Government would actually create a website through which the whole tender process is managed.
It should allow:
- Businesses to register their profiles, capabilities, personnel and past project experience
- Agencies should be able to post comment on past projects
- Agencies should be able to create a template for a tender that all businesses use as the basis for building up their submission
- Businesses then create their draft and make the submission electronically – no more posting/couriering of three paper copies!
- Agencies would review each tender and privately comment on and rate through the same website