Council tenders
Thanks to you-know-who-you-are for a pointer to another Council tendering issue that needs investigating.
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2 comments:
Angus, if you are going to investigate all the Council tendering issues, you will have little time left to feed the results onto this blog!
Tendering for local contracts shouldn't be done locally. No matter who it is, there's always the suspicion of dirty doing or plain old incompetence.
I've been on both sides of the public sector tendering process (mostly on the mainland, I'll admit). Most councils haven't the faintest idea how to write a tender, let alone evaluate one. Few small businesses have any understanding of or interest in the stuff that tenders are judged on.
Result? Most public sector contracts go to large firms who now employ ex-public sector employees to help them write tenders. Small firms miss out every time. Can someone explain to me exactly how that constitutes 'value for money'??
I wish you every bit of luck with this campaign, Angus, but no doubt the drooling half-wits at the Comhairle who eventually take the blame for this will be three steps removed from the management tier who actually should bear responsibility.
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