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 Tender
The tracking list : a powerful tool to manage tenders with SLA.
The processes that contains SLA have been identified (and described) during the Operational Process Analysis .
The next milestone is to plan the content of a powerful monitor tool: the tracking list.
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: the starting up Project Process
When BIT decided to grow in the Public Sector, it was decided to establish a dedicated public tender team. The director of the Professional Service Business Unit of BIT is part of this team. He convinced the team to adopt the Prince 2 methodology for answering tenders that have an annual, expected, turnover higher than 1 million euro for year.
That’s how BIT tailored Prince 2 starting up Project process.
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.
QMS in Operations 