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Old 07-16-2008, 03:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Jacques Fourie View Post
Ahhh - got it now ! smoking my socks does not go down well.

Should this not form part of the prequalifying criteria set by yourself i.e. 150mil should not be more than 40% of company anual revenue? someting of the sorts and would disqualify any company that do not comply with this. Just easier to do it upfront (obviously you will have companies take chances but also insist on audited financials as a pre-requisite to your tender)???

Or should I get another pair of socks
Your right, and by new common law in the UK criteria to disallow companies from winning contracts must be stipulated in the PQQ stage and cannot be part of the decision weighted matrix.

My real problem is that alot of my current suppliers are too small to handle our business, we suffer because of the level of service.

I was looking for a "trick" to say its now part of the rules as any re-tendering I would have to let them past the PQQ stage as they are a current supplier.

To limit the amount of business by X amount to prevent overreliance I thought being a good clause to have as if the business were to drastically increase in that area I would not be under the obligation to automatically award the additional work to the exisiting supplier.

The mannor in which IKEA have done it (according to what I read from Supply Management) was that this was part of their terms and conditions with all their suppliers.

Any suggestions on how it can be worded to acheive what I aim without being obvious?
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