Inverclyde Liberal Democrats
About us News and Views Get Involved		Fyfe - Victory for Common Sense in Procurement Process Cllr Tom Fyfe press release 6 months ago, I wrote about Inverclyde Council awarding a contract worth over £1M to the second highest bidder out of six. Nothing necessarily wrong with this provided the scoring system is fair. In this case however, after scoring, two bids were deemed equal and yet the contract went to the firm whose bid was over £140,000 higher than the other. This occurred because tender price which was supposed to contribute only 20% of the marks in the first place was downgraded to only 11% by using a different method of calculation for price and by allotting extra marks for quality. Tender price accounting for only 20% of the assessment is far too low. 11% in my view is completely unacceptable. At the Audit Committee this month, our Chief Executive agreed with me and now proposes to alter the procurement system to make price account for a minimum of 60% of the assessment with quality contributing 40% - a big difference from the 80/20 split in favour of quality! He also acknowledged that the scoring system needs to be adjusted to make sure that price does account for the 60% it is supposed to in order to avoid repeating the situation in which it accounted for only half of what it should have done. A victory for common sense! .
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