I should have posted with regard to yesterday’s top question, but ran out of time. Verification, Lot 1 & 2s bids i.e. under 150 NMS bid for. You need to send a further message via the e-portal, in reply to theirs containing the letter of notification, confirming, once more, that everything in your bid is […]
Requests for verification as per IFA Section D.5 have begun, with a ludicrous “deadline” of 7-days*. This relates primarily to financial information and includes, cash flow and Profit/Loss accounts (for the last 3 years). We think disclosure is unavoidable however believe the proposed deadline to be “Bluff” (for those who remember “Call my Bluff”). 15 […]
An LSC spokesman said: ‘We made it clear throughout that the process was based on self-certification and so assessment of tenders has been made based on the information supplied to us. Before the tender process opened we highlighted the importance of applicants accurately completing their tenders.’ I am not surprised at the desire for anonymity. […]
If you are appealing the classic erroneous answer re. Peer review give us a ring. A great new argument just occurred to us. Not positing it here for obvious reasons. UPDATE That’s first drafts done on the ones I am involved in. Chatted to a couple of the firms and the human element of this […]
I guess it will not be as tense as Friday with regard to the bid notifications. but still a bit on edge. I also have to do first drafts of all the appeals today as Barcelona is awaiting me tomorrow. Lunch at desk and not in the Bistro today – sandwich and not ADB too […]
I have tidied my course notes for tonight so am having another look at the Peer Review stats. and thinking about procurement appeals. The killer ITT question asks about “confirmed Cat 4 or 5” results. The stats do not contain this info but rather (and I am inferring here) the “non-confirmed Cat 4s”, which run […]
On all the available Data, about 1% of Family Firms achieve a Category 1, “Excellent” when Peer Reviewed. They are rare and exotic beasts. One would have thought that the LSC would know and cherished such suppliers. Rather, it seems, they would prefer them to fail their recent bid, having entrapped them into saying “yes” […]
Friday proved not to be the nightmare it might have become. Fortunately very few firms seem to have fallen foul of the unnecessary, arbitrary hurdles the LSC seem to have constructed in this Family procurement round. Given that this was not a competitive bid it is difficult to see why common sense cannot prevail and […]
I commented on how impressed I was with Ane Brun’s Kate Bush cover earlier in the week. (A view shared by neither Mrs SP nor the Nextdoors, fools). I did buy her latest album and am significantly more impressed than I was with the isolated tracks on the radio. This is the “single”, I think;
Family tender notifications start today with those who have failed. Successful firms will hear from Wednesday next week. Here’s hoping that we do not get a single, further, call for help with an appeal.