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26 November 2009
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! Crossrail is CRASS, crass and corrupt.. No 'benefits' for local people! Now THEY are confessing! [1] a SPECIALIST crass!
AADHIKARonline quoting for KHOODEELAAR! from the external web site cnplus.co.uk:
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http://www.cnplus.co.uk/regional-news/london/specialist-firms-hit-out-at-olympic/crossrail-procurement-system/5211303.article
Specialist firms hit out at Olympic/Crossrail procurement system
26 November, 2009 | By Greg Pitcher
Subcontractors have fiercely criticised the system being used to dish out work on London projects including the 2012 Olympics and Crossrail.
As procurement of specialist contractors for the Olympics project reaches a crescendo, Olympic Delivery Authority head of procurement Morag Stuart faced a barrage of anger from subcontractors at a briefing last week.
Bidders said so many firms were able to score maximum marks through CompeteFor that main contractors were often reduced to picking a shortlist at random.
Other complaints included that contracts disappeared after expressions of interest were submitted, and were even re-advertised after a competition had closed.
One told her: “I’ve come across opportunities on CompeteFor that are empty shells. They are posted, we respond, then two weeks later we get an email saying we didn’t make them – but there was never even any information about what they were.”
Another said: “We have had a lot of bad experiences. The CompeteFor criteria are supergeneric, contractors just fish through the entries and use who they were going to use anyway.”
He added: “We have seen opportunities appear on CompeteFor after we have lost out on them – and we are talking contracts worth millions of pounds.”
Another firm, which said it had experience on the 2008 Beijing Olympics and 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics projects, said: “How we were not shortlisted for some of these opportunities in London 2012 is beyond belief.
“I am disheartened by [the system] – is it just luck whether you get the chance to bid?”
Ms Stuart said that in one case up to 200 bidders had scored 100 per cent on CompeteFor, so the client chose five at random to tender.
The ODA has more than £1 billion of construction work yet to hand out for the Games. With the main structures developing at pace, a deluge of Tier 2 contracts is expected to hit the market in the next month or so.
A total of 10,000 Olympics contracts are expected to pass through CompeteFor, and more than half of these are yet to come.
About 150 Tier 2 deals are expected on the Athletes Village alone. Carillion is expected to place 14 contracts on the portal for the Media Centre; Sir Robert McAlpine is anticipated to have 16 for the main stadium; and Balfour Beatty is forecast to put 11 packages out on the Aquatics Centre.
Speaking at the CN-organised event, Ms Stuart defended the ideas behind the system but conceded that it was not perfect. “We do understand some of the feedback we get, and are looking at what we can do to the system. Any serious ideas are welcomed,” she said.
She also insisted contracts should not be reappearing and that she would look into any instances of this.
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