So why bid for a contract that you can'r deliver at the price you said you could?
Computacenter rips up £43m council contract over razor-thin margin
Computacenter chief exec Mike Norris says the reseller giant stepped out of an ICT services contract with Cumbria County Council (CC) before kick-off because it was "confident" the deal would be loss-making. The council in January, apparently prematurely, confirmed Computacenter as the preferred bidder for a five-year contract …
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Friday 23rd March 2012 13:17 GMT Anonymous Coward
Those 'painful consequences' being the directors walk away with a huge payoff and pension pot, while the company itself goes into administration, sacks all its workers, and the council is forced to either bail them out or pay even more money to a new supplier? Yeah... painful to everyone except you, Mike...
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Saturday 24th March 2012 23:26 GMT Anonymous Coward
ha ha ha ha ha!
Seriously.... I used to work at Cumbria CC. I enjoyed it, but well organized and well written contracts - I very much doubt it somehow. My department was outsourced to Crapita, but it appears that nothing was learnt from this resounding success, and more and more muppets are being employed in senior positions, more money is being wasted on consultants and partnerships, and anyone competent is leaving as a result of the cost-cutting measures that are being applied. Mainly to people who do things other than attend meetings and set strategy, I have to say...
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Friday 23rd March 2012 19:41 GMT Adrian 4
legal bullshit
Since when was 'But I'd look a fool' a 'legal reason' ?
It's about time people stopped hiding behind this 'legal reason' stuff.
And it's about time commercial companies who deal with public authorities expected to have their dealings made visible to the real owners : us.
We delegate the job of doing boring stuff to councils so we don't have to do it. That doesn't mean they have any reason to hide their activities.
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Friday 23rd March 2012 23:51 GMT Oldfogey
These are not the suppliers you are looking for....
So the council prematurely announced that there was a contract, when there actually wasn't. Not unusual for negotiations to fall over at the last minute, often because the supplier had left insufficient margin in the price to give in on a few points and still make a profit.
Poor negotiation by somebody, but not a big deal.
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Sunday 25th March 2012 10:08 GMT David 47
Isn't this a violation
Isn't this a violation of the Code of Conduct for evaluating RFPs.
Governments and Councils are not supposed to disclose failure of negotiations.
it is an open invitation for the next bidder for not dropping prices during negotiations.
WOW.....
Paris : Because she won't drop prices....
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Monday 26th March 2012 12:23 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Remember Success == *bonus* failure is not.
This is why civil servants love external consultants, nothing is ever the civil servants fault, why have a multi-million pound budget and fuck it yourself when you can employ external consultants and blame them.
Once the Sir Humphrey’s career is protected nothing else matters.
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