Slides from the Clonmel Chamber event 'How to Tender for Public Sector Contracts'

2. How to Tender

4. Agnition

15. 04/29/10 Mary O'Halloran Senior Procurement Manager Client Relations Clonmel Chamber 17 th February 2011

17. 04/29/10 Context Pub Context Public Sector Spend in Procurement lic Sector Spend in Procurement

18. 04/29/10 Context of NPS's Establishment: “ Government's Belief That Reform of Structural & Operational Frameworks for Public Procurement of Goods and Services Will Deliver Significant Savings to the Exchequer”

20. 04/29/10 STRATEGY Goal 1 Strategic Sourcing Goal 2 Education Training Goal 3 eProcurement Human Resource Development Research & Benchmarking Measurement Statistics, Market Targeting Performance Internal Supporting Strategies

26. 04/29/10 How NPS Advertises Contracts Competitive process should be used unless there are justifiable & exceptional circumstances High value Purchase € 25K up to EU Threshold: €125K Advertise in eTenders (open) € 125K – Advertise in OJEU & eTenders Low Value Purchase - < €1K – One Verbal Quote < €5K – One Written Quote Intermediate Value Purchase Between €5K & €25K - Formal Tender Process – Minimum 3 quotes by Invitation or Open Process (Debriefing)

27. 04/29/10 Sources of Opportunities

34. 04/29/10 Understand The Evaluation Process Three steps- regardless of procedure used Qualification Selection Award

51. 04/29/10 Mary O'Halloran Senior Procurement Manager Client Relations [email_address]