Win the workWin the work: Tender · week three…
The questionnaire
Every firm in the bid team ticks "Yes, we can manage information". Six firms, six ticks, six very confident ticks.
Stage 2 · Win the work · Stop 6 of 11
Can they actually do it?
The back alley's bill so far: 30 weeks · See the bill
The information · Six ticked questionnaires
Every firm in the team says it can look after me. A tick in a box isn't proof.
The wrong way
Good enough
Tom, the bid manager, files the forms without opening them.
Tom: Six ticks. Lovely. Next.
The biggest tick
Nobody asks to see anything. The groundworks firm's tick is the most confident of all. It has gone through the paper.
DesignDesign: Month three of the job…
The laptop
The groundworks firm's drawings arrive. By fax. From a laptop bought in 2009 and a folder called DRAWINGS NEW (2).
Buy a fax machine
Dave, the site manager, has to buy a fax machine to receive them.
Dave: What's a fax?
Retyped
Then someone retypes every drawing by hand. The fax machine gets its own chair, and a name.
Six ticks, no proof, and the first fax machine bought on site this century.
+2 weeks on the back alley's bill: Six ticks and no evidence: a firm that couldn't share drawings, found in month three.