The European Union Institutions (EUI) directly influence the creation of national public tenders through frameworks for public procurement, such as the Public Procurement Directives (Directive 2014/23/EU, Directive 2014/24/EU, and Directive 2014/25/EU).
Additionally, the tenders that EUI publish are often used as examples by national public administrations.
Therefore, it is valuable for a service manager to understand how the EUI contractually manages professional services contracts.
This post focus on the Time and Means type of contract.
Public Sector
Tailoring Prince2 to answer a public tender : managing the End of the Project
After managing the middle of the project, it is time for BIT Project Board to close the project initiated to manage the bid for one winner, one catalogue tender. Do they decide to bid or not?
Tailoring Prince2 to answer a public tender: initiating a Project.
BIT Project Board closed the starting up stage of the one winner, one catalogue tender with the authorization to the project manager to start the Initiation stage.
In this post it is described how the BPO has tailored the 4 Activities of this stage and the relative management product: the Project Initiation Documentation. Continue reading
Analysis of a major type of public tender for IT Infrastructure: the one winner, one catalogue.
BIT decided that is strategic to develop a balanced scorecard for each tender that has a potential value equal or major of 10 million euro.
In this post, I introduce, as a typical example, the tender DIGIT/R3/PO/2016/020 Data Centre Compute Solutions (DCCS) – Lot 1.
Like all tenders issued by the European Institutions, you can find all details in the TED web site. Continue reading
Balanced Scorecard: a tool to support BIT strategy.
The balanced scorecard it’s a powerful methodology to improve a ISO 9001 QMS.
This post illustrated how it can also be used to support a strategy to growth in the public sector Continue reading
Build a Business Case to enter in the public sector: the help of the SWOT analysis.
BIT wants to growth in the public sector.
In this post, I describe how the SWOT analysis can be a valid tool to build the relative strategy.
BIT business case: how to growth in the public sector.
All the words in green are contained in ITIL v3 glossary.
This business case is based on my experience (not only in Belgium) but the Company Belgium Information Technology (BIT) is a fictive Company (do not lose time to Google it).
This post introduce the challenge for BIT to expand its activity in an existing market segment: the public sector.
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