atw: Re: Writing a Request for Tender document

Tracy - also check the Vic Purchasing Board web site.  A lot of the material
is guidelines and frameworks for best practice procurement, however, they
also have a range of templates, but they are, obviously, specific to
government procurement.  fyi.

On 2/27/08, Caz. H <cazhart@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Tracy
>
> No, you won't find a template on the Internet, purely because RFT
> documents aren't "off the shelf", they are written specifically around the
> terms and conditions that a particular organisation wishes to impose for the
> Ts&Cs of the tender itself, the Ts&Cs of the proposed contract that will be
> offered, and the scope of works for the goods or services being sought, and,
> of course, the selection process and criteria, etc.
>
> Having written tenders and contracts on and off for 15 years, please be
> assured that I'm not a lawyer and have never worked in any organisation
> where lawyers have any say in an RFT - they wouldn't have a clue, therefore,
> no one would ask them.
>
> While I have examples of work that I've done, which I would consider
> providing, the difficulty is that you would have to rewrite and tailor the
> end to end document, including terms of the contract, to fit with the legal
> requirements of the organisation you're currently working in and the nature
> of the particular scope for which you're going to tender - and I'm
> definitely not referring to doing a universal replace for a company name.
>  If only it was so simple.
>
> Have they never tendered for anything before?  Is this really the first
> tender they've ever done?  Most organisations would at least have prior
> tender documents to draw upon, even if they don't have standardised
> materials.
>
> Of course, you could always just go to a federal or state government web
> site, search their current tenders and download a copy of something.  Again
> though, there are more dangers in that than I care to think about if you're
> not familiar with tenders and contracts.  They're not all the same, they're
> not "off the shelf" or "one size fits all".
>
> I hope the tender isn't high value!
>
> CazH
>
>  On 2/26/08, Brian A Clarke <brianclarke01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Tracy,
> > These documents are usually written [badly] by banks of lawyers. I doubt
> > that you will find a template or that any law firm would release one to
> > you.
> > Brian.
> >
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Carolyn Hart

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