In this week’s BIDS FROM HELL

February 22, 2012 Leave a comment

“…, or similar…”

The end-user knows what he wants to buy and who he wants to buy it from. Rules rules rules prevent him from going directly to this supplier, he has to go out to tender. So how does he gets around it? By sending out a specification, clearly written on somebody’s product, followed by these magic two words, ‘or similar’.

Has anybody ever won a tender by offering something similar? Please let us know…

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About Bastiaan Brouns
Born in The Netherlands in 1968, Bastiaan Brouns is the initiator of the label SourceYour and the founder and CEO of SourceYourInterior.com. Aimed at Facilities & Furniture, SourceYour's goal is to make purchasing processes sustainable. Rethinking the way things are done and supporting education to create sustainable improvement are core values of SourceYour. Everybody deserves a chance to know better. Bastiaan lives in Prague with his partner Kamila and their three daughters.

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