About PASS

Whether you work within public sector procurement or tender for public sector contracts, BiP Solutions’ Procurement Advice and Support Service (PASS) will help you improve your efficiency and effectiveness.

Our PASS Team of experienced consultants offers a range of expert services which can be tailored to meet your organisation’s specific needs – whether you are a buyer or a supplier.

Where PASS consultants can help Buyers and Suppliers...

BUYERS

• Introduction and operation of charging for discretionary services
• Achieving Beacon status
• How to introduce procurement cards
• Effective supplier sourcing, development and management
• Working with the voluntary sector
• Implementation of Buyer Profiles
• Advancing social issues through procurement
• Developing supply chain partnerships
• Developing a procurement strategy
• Creating and initiating an effective e-procurement strategy
• Through-life management and whole-life costing
• Creating compliant standing orders
• Procurement manual reviews
• Operating framework agreements
• Developing an e-auction programme
• Creating a new procurement manual
• Supplier selection and accreditation
• Tender evaluation
• Innovative approaches to knowledge transfer within government
• Joined-up government

BUYERS & SUPPLIERS

• Developing relative weighting criteria
• Tendering and the Freedom of Information Act
• TUPE and outsourcing
• Building partnerships
• Helping SMEs and ethnic minority businesses through procurement
• Thinking and buying ‘Green’
• Effective benchmarking
• Partnering and collaboration
• Assessing and managing risk
• Stimulating and delivering innovation
• Preparing for the new EU Consolidated
  Procurement Directive
• Effective and compliant evaluation
• Developing and delivering effective procurement project management
• Process mapping
• ITT preparation
• Improved performance indicators
• Sustainable development within decision-making processes and delivery of services
  

SUPPLIERS

• Tender preparation – including initial advice, ‘Red Teaming’ and tender drafting
• Tendering process controls
• Practical solutions to improve procurement performance
• Presentation of tender response documentation
• Strategic direction and performance
• Opportunities offered by e-government
• Knowledge of clients’ processes and practices, including evaluation techniques
• Practices for responding to Expressions of Interest
• Capacity to deliver change to meet identified needs
• Continuous improvement of services and challenging poor performance
• Understanding of when and how to address government initiatives
• EU-compliant processes
• Best practice procurement training
• Developing e-procurement processes
• Resources for identifying tendering opportunities
• Knowledge of public sector tendering legislation
• Weaknesses in any current mandatory policies (health and safety/environment/equal opportunities/etc)