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Don’t really agree with the idea that everything should be tendered. Tenders are a poor fit for complex situations where the complete path is not clear. To use
by hectormalot 8y ago
Don’t really agree with the idea that everything should be tendered. Tenders are a poor fit for complex situations where the complete path is not clear. To use your analogy: what if the tender included selecting the building to tear down as well as demolishing it? Without further specification, the winner of the tender could have an abnormally low price, be incentivized to pick the easiest building to demolish, and leave the rubble on site because you forgot to define what demolish actually means.
In coding terms: if you can do it waterfall then you can probably tender it, otherwise I’m not so sure.
- jessaustin 8y agoIt wasn't an analogy. This literally happens every day. All towns have a process in place for selecting which local hazards to demolish. Of course for more involved requirements it may be good to break the process into more than one step. It's possible that no one knows what's wrong with the public power utility. If you have to hire McKinsey because corruption, negotiate a simple fee for them to run an actual RFP process for an actual management consulting engagement for you. One of the requirements for that RFP will be that theirs cannot be the only viable bid. If they can't get a bid from another firm that has consulted for publicly-owned utilities, they don't get their RFP fee either.