Increasing pressure on businesses to "do more with less" increases the consequences of ICT infrastructure sourcing and procurement and makes efficient an benefits driven completion crucial. Procurement can be a costly and often underestimated process that can lead to poor outcomes and long-term budget overruns.

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RPV's Sourcing and Procurement Service assists clients in ensuring your procurement and sourcing process is  designed to meet identified business outcomes in the most cost effective way.

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RPV's consultants have held key advising roles in government and commercial ICT procurements in excess of $1 billion. Our consultants are experienced across the procurement lifecycle. They have purchased everything from prime to mutli source arrangements across technologies ranging from mainframe and mid-range systems, to storage, end user computing telecommunications, gateways and service management solutions.

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RPV's Sourcing and Procurement service helps clients conduct contract negotiations, develop tender documentation, evaluation methodologies and costing models. We assess risk and pricing and can both lead a complex procurement and support your staff through the process. At all junctures, RPV’s focus is on providing a procurement process that is tailored specifically to the individual needs of our clients.

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Our Approach

In Sourcing and Procurement, RPV provides benefits to our Clients through:

• Procurement process planning and development: procurement models that are designed to achieve cost effective business outcomes for the full term of the contract,

• Risk minimisation through well developed acquisition strategies: development of acquisition strategies to mitigate delivery and technology risks and the overall planning of the evaluation,

• Evaluation criteria consistent with desired project benefits: development of evaluation criteria and guidance through the use of evaluation tools,

• Tender process management: advice on and manage the conduct of the evaluation to ensure activities are consistent and compliant with the evaluation framework,

• Development of Source Evaluation Reports for reviews and formal approvals, and

• Training client personnel to conduct evaluations and ensure an ongoing effective sourcing and procurement strategy for your organisation.