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Tuesday 1 January 2013

Three Ways Used By Penal Institutions Upon Annexing Catering Supplies

By Wally Paradise


The first approach from the three mentioned above, often used by penal institutions to procure catering supplies, is a simple but still efficient one. They simply send out good agents to shop for the necessary amounts for them. Ideally, agents go to retail outlets close by. This is viewed as a perfect approach to use when trying to procure 'petty' supplies, which wouldn't warrant the other approaches. You notice that the other approaches we will be looking at tend to be extremely long drawn, and it can be rather inefficient to use such approaches when trying to procure petty supplies. Many cases prove that it's a lot more efficient to send someone to the local store to shop for the required supplies.

The above approach always saves a considerable amount of time and it's a simple and efficient approach. The choice is always yours, but the main factors to decide whether choosing this method is efficient or not are: value of the products and the time amount you can 'spend' waiting. The second approach that is used by penal institutions when procuring catering supplies, is the one where they send requests for best price quotations to the vendors of these supplies. Then they take their time to go through the whole batch of quotations.

The next step is when final orders are sent out to vendors, because every vendor's offers have already been checked and penal institutions realized who gave the best quotes. Of course, in some cases, this process leads to the selection of just a single vendor: and that is the vendor who gets the order. Whether or not to give the order to a single vendor is a decision taken after various factors are looked at. Frequently, a lot of different supplies are needed. In all such cases, what happens is that the orders get to be split between more suppliers.

In other cases, when there are only a couple of needed supplies, penal institutions may take risks and give the order to a single supplier. Penal institutions, as the third approach, will try to make good use of tenders when procuring catering supplies. Usually, business people are invited, with the purpose of getting offers from these business people. Of course, these offers target only one thing: the ability of these tenders to provide the required supplies on the long term, for all future orders. The penal institutions must make sure that tenders can really supply the required items, so they ask them to create tender documents and fill in pre qualification forms. They also have to present how and why they could provide this service on a long term basis.

All tenders have to provide the best offers: the best prices for the best supply terms. The best decisions must be made and this is assured by tender committees. These will compare incoming offers and give a verdict on who should finally be selected. The trader who wins a tender normally has assurance of some long-term business comfort: like where they can continue supply the institution with the items in question for a whole year. But the tenders tend to be conditional, on the fact that the traders who bid have to maintain the terms they bid on - like, for instance, the supply prices they specified when bidding.




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