Public sector bandwagon a wise ride?

[Brown and Boris]

Recently I have been involved in tendering on quite large public sector projects around leadership development/training/coaching etc. One of the things I am told is that the numbers of companies fighting for the work has gone through the roof (unsurprisngly). People are tendering for peanuts and on anything they can see they have a remote chance of, just to stay in business.

But I wonder how many of these projects will come to fruition now? Unless there is a legal or major policy incentive, who would spend upwards of £8M on a new programme in the current climate given public concern about spending, and is it likely that even if it kicks off the Tories won't just put a line through it and cut their losses once in power?

[Brown and Boris]

JMGS4 said:

Seems CallMedave is wanting to slash Quangos, a damn good thing as they're mostly all a bunch of non-working busybodies who just want to enforcce BigBrotehr legislation. ban (no shoot) the effin lot of 'em.... starting wiv Elf an Safety

He says he won't abolish those serving a statutory or transparency function but will slim them so that is all they do.

[Brown and Boris]

Police State said:

theaxe said:

This is part of the reason why government projects are so expensive. Companies are taking a massive risk that the project will be scaled back, changed or abandoned half way through.

In fact I believe that many companies now insist on being paid to tender for government projects.

Cheeky buggers.

I haven't seen that, in fact the opening stipulation is that your costs are not covered. But it gets a pain when it transpires you were never likely to get a look in because some tame provider had the inside track and they are just going through the tendering motions. Would be good and more honest if they said if they had a preferred bider, who they were and a target price to beat. Insteaed they let 20 suppliers jump hoops, and a shortlist waste thousands on a full tender for a job they have no real chance of getting.