Online Tenders Service Procurement Branch

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Online Tenders ServiceProcurement Branch

• Objectives
• Meet Vic 2001 requirements
• EASY to
• 1. put up tenders
• 2. find tenders
• 3. submit bids
• 4. analyse bids

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Online Tenders ServiceProcurement Branch

• Easy to put up tenders
• Decentralised - control in hands of user
• User friendly fast
• Secure
• Free
• Better process management
• Big savings

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Online Tenders ServiceProcurement Branch

Composite Tender Advertisements
One composite tender advertisement replaces a
myriad of individual display ads, thus reducing
the costs
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Online Tenders ServiceProcurement Branch

Savings of 500,000/year
Unit cost approx 800 to 1200
Save up to 700 for every tender advertised
Average unit cost 380 per tender
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Online Tenders ServiceProcurement Branch
2. Easy to find tender opportunities

• Register once on site
• Free, fast download
• Single site for all Vic Gov Tenders
• User Friendly
• Access to tenders across all governments
• Search by area, category, value

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Online Tenders ServiceProcurement Branch

• 3. Easy to submit bids
• Friendly, fast and free
• Secure
• Sends receipt to bidders
• Other material can still be sent separately
• Audit trail - rigorous time-stamping
• Flexible formats

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Online Tenders ServiceProcurement Branch

• Easy Analysis
• - the big advantage of electronic submission
• Automatic creation of spreadsheets
• Allows more objectivity
• Better quality analysis
• Very fast - start evaluation within 1 hour

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Online Tenders ServiceProcurement Branch

• Easy Analysis - the Banking Tender
• Massive project
• 6 Tenders and project teams
• Tight deadline
• Multiple evaluation spreadsheets
• Spreadsheets available the next day
• Would normally have taken 1-2 people more than a
  week

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Online Tenders ServiceProcurement Branch

• Increasing popularity- since Jan 1
• 550 tenders
• 16,000 downloads
• 82,000 visits
• 90 of all tenders posted to site

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Online Tenders ServiceProcurement Branch

• Objectives
• Meet Vic 2001 requirements
• EASY to
• 1. put up tenders
• 2. find tenders
• 3. submit bids
• 4. analyse bids

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Online Tenders ServiceProcurement Branch

• Contacts
• Lindsay Doig, Manager Business Systems 9651 2588
• ldoig_at_vgpb.vic.gov.au
• Cris Popp, Information Services Coordinator 9651
  2587
• cris.popp_at_dtf.vic.gov.au