Procurement and Tendering Flashcards
1
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Difference between procurement and tendering?
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2
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What is a traditional route?
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3
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What is design & build?
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4
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What is management contracting?
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4
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What is construction management?
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5
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What are the reasons for robust tendering strategies?
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5
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What is a single stage tender?
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6
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What is a two-stage tender?
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7
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What is a negotiated tender?
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8
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What is open tendering?
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9
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- What is selective tendering?
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10
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- What is single contractor selection?
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11
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- What is a PQQ?
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12
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- Why was the consultant framework advertised openly?
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13
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- What is the effect of FTS tendering rules on tendering?
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14
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- What are the public procurement thresholds?
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15
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- What is the documentation that forms a tender?
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16
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- What is a tender process?
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17
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- Benefits of e-tendering (online tender systems
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18
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- Disadvantages of e-tendering (online tender systems)?
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19
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- How do you review a tender?
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20
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- How do you deal with errors in a tender?
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21
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- Errors in tenders public procurement?
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22
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- What do you do about late tender returns?
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23
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- What is a pre-qualification process?
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24
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- What is included in a tender report?
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25
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- Risks of different procurement routes?
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26
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- What is partnering? Collaborative procurement approach
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27
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- What is the purpose of a Bill of Quantities?
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28
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- Bill of quantities v activity schedule
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29
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- Behavior of a contractor in traditional and design and build?
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30
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- MEAT vs MAT
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31
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- What did you advise your client were the risks of a negotiated tender?
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32
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- How would you advise your client to apply BCIS indices?
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33
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- Are you aware of any changes to the Most Economically Advantageous Tender ‘MEAT’?
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34
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- How do you commercially assess tender submissions?
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35
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- What are the benefits of e-tendering? What may be seen as a negative?
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36
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- In what scenario may it be inappropriate to advise of a traditional procurement route?
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37
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- How would you approach normalizing a tender?
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38
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- What would you do if you received a late tender submission?
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39
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- Talk me through the public procurement rules and how they’ve applied to your projects?
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40
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- Explain an ITT you have issued, what are the headline contents?
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41
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- What advice and analysis do you give in a tender report, name 5 items?
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42
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- What procurement advice would you give a client on a £10m new build project, with a lot of complex M&E installations?
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43
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- How do you currently calculate inflation and what advice would you give to a client in respect of tendering a project in the current market condition?
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44
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- What advice would you give to a client, after you have advised on the most appropriate tenderer to appoint in a cost focused tender, choses to appoint the most expensive tender?
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45
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- How do you handle tender queries?
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46
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- What would you do if a client wanted to alter part of an ITT during the tender period?
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47
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- Talk me through the public procurement rules and how they’ve applied to your projects?
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48
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- How might the process for dealing with errors differ from tenders governed by public procurement regs to non-public procurement?
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49
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- What other methods allow your client to retain control on design?
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50
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- Rockfall Protection - How did you ensure Value for Money using the negotiated route?
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51
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- Rockfall Protection - Could you have called off from a framework?
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52
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- Rockfall Protection - Was the H&S risk a result of their works from last year? Were they liable?
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53
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- PQQ - How did you come up with suitable prequal questions? Where could you look for them / is there any guidance on what to ask?
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