Preparing the scope can cost one quarter of the total project cost and is often done in isolation, without expert input. As a result, scope creep affects 65% of all government and commercial business contracts. With RosellaStream’s Fast-Tender Process scoping is reduced to outcome desired. scope complexity is exported to the supplier where it belongs and is gladly accepted as their core knowledge base.

Due to 19th-century paper processes, a typical project brief and process requires a multiplicity of steps and takes 6-9 months or more to complete. Simplifying complexity is essential. Derisking can be done by shifting complexity to suppliers who don’t see it as complexity, more their core technology. This then eliminates the complexity. RosellaStream can make this happen for you.

The traditional sourcing process lacks flexibility and impedes the process for procurement. Contractors often bid without full knowledge of the project’s intricacies and are constrained contractually afterwards. Further, from the outset, an opposing forces situation between the buyer and supplier, is set up via the contract wording exemplified by termination for convenience clause. In the eyes of the supplier, a 5-year contract is reduced to a 90 day contract when the buyer can elect to terminate the contract for convenience with 90-days notice. Collaborative contracting is a viable option.

Local governments often have insufficient organisational capability to develop briefs on complex ICT or capital works projects. Engaging consultants for one off projects can be an option, however, as a practice this does not build sustainable organizational capability and often results in budget busting cost, longer implementation time and inconclusive value add. Building sustainable organisational knowledge via solution training is key. RosellaStream can deliver this for you.