In this week’s Bids from Hell 217: “The agreement will be for 6 years instead of 4. Experience has taught us that it will take the supplier at least 2 years to get used to our ways of working.” We can always appreciate a bit of self-reflection when it comes to tendering!
In this week’s Bids from Hell 216: We tell you what we pay “The bid price should be $225,000 excl. VAT or sales tax.” Quite a self-confident approach of a bid process. This organisation apparently knows how to compare the different interior furnishing solutions to establish which one offers the most value for money…
In this week’s Bids from Hell 215: As long as it is black “The colour scheme of the furniture should resemble our Corporate Identity colours, as visualised in our Corporate Identity Manual, which is available on request. The upholstery of the chairs, seating solutions, screens and panels should be black, matching the desk and table frame colours.” […] Read more
In this week’s Bids from Hell 214: In this day and age? “Please provide us with 17 binders with your complete bid on paper. In case you would like to provide us with a digital copy as well, please send it to digtalcopy@thisdayandage.com. In case of a difference between the paper and digital copies, we will […] Read more
In this week’s Bids from Hell 213: did you really win the bid? “Bid segment 2 will be awarded to three bidders. The one who has entered the best bid will be awarded the orders below the value of EUR 25,000. For each order above this value, the three selected vendors will have to enter […] Read more
In this week’s Bids from Hell 212: RFP for advice foursome “We have the intention to enter into a framework agreement with four vendors to provide us with interior furnishing advice on office and educational furniture.” This is probably a mistake in the wording. At least we hope so. Because this organisation will never be […] Read more
In this week’s Bids from Hell 211: additional info without the info. “Please find below the adjusted information for our RFP, issued on 26 September 2014. The adjusted information is: email address.’ We have searched and searched. We couldn’t find any mention of the new email address. We then looked at the original documentation once […] Read more
In this week’s Bids from Hell 210: how to make it unclear “The tendering organisation expresses the wish to have all existing educational and office furniture matching the current furniture. Therefore the new furniture will be new and only replace our replacement demands. Deliveries will be limited in volume and value. Therefore we opt for […] Read more
In this week’s Bids from Hell 209: mocking the mock-up. “All bidders are requested to provide us with a mock-up of the furniture solutions proposed at no charge. The mock-up will be weighed 15% in the awarding of the project.” Some research told us that in the end, 11 suppliers provided the mock-up. Which was […] Read more
In this week’s Bids from Hell 208: we have no idea what we are talking about “We expect our vendor to support our efforts in new ways of working.” This was the only time the term ‘New Ways of Working’ was mentioned in the bid documentation. No clarification, no explanation, no current status, no further […] Read more
