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Working With BT
What BT Buys - Management Consultancy
Introduction
Management Consultancy is concerned with improving the efficiency of the business and can be defined as:
"The buying in of intellectual and / or professional expertise from outside the company on matters or activities for which no in-house specialist resource exists"
Details
The Consultancy Procurement Team procure and manage the provision of a wide range of high quality, externally sourced consultancy services which represents best value for money whilst ensuring that contractual deliverables and timescales are met. Some of the main consultancy areas making up Management Consultancy are Process Re-engineering, Organisational Transformation, Scope and efficiency Studies, Benchmarking Studies, Change Management, HR related and Finance Consultancy.
NOTE - this DOES NOT include IT Services, Temporary Personnel, or Recruitment . These are purchase under those headings, by different teams within BT.
Current & Forthcoming Requirements
BT Procurement will be looking to conduct a review of the management consultancy market within Q3/Q4 of 2007/08. From such a review, both generalist and specialist companies will be invited to tender for various categories of management consultancy. The aim is to produce pan-BT preferred framework supplier lists for all categories of management consultancy. Gateway criteria may be used to shortlist potential suppliers invited to tender although such details would be communicated to suppliers accordingly. If you are interested, please drop an email to the contact point, outlining your company's specific capability areas of management consultancy.
Do's and Don'ts of supplying consultancy to BT:
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Please do involve procurement as soon as possible whenever you are approached by a BT employee to help scope requirements or to submit a bid. This will help reduce the likelihood of projects being declined later on by a non-involved procurement
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Please do provide a clear proposal outlining how you would go about delivering a project, any BT input that is required, agreed deliverables as well as providing a clear breakdown of day rates, grades being used and duration.
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Please do contact us in regard to your company's unique selling points. We want to hear about what differentiates you as a consultancy supplier rather than a generic company overview
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Please do keep receipts for all incurred expenses as it is BT Travel Policy that these are submitted by the supplier if required
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Please do let us know via our contact point if you feel that you have an innovative solution that could fit into the BT context by enhancing our performance and / or improve our revenue returns.
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Please do not start any work until in receipt of a valid Purchase Order as it is this that signifies commitment from BT and is against which you can invoice
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Please do not agree terms and conditions with your operational contact
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Please do not agree any extensions or incur any extra costs above the value of the initial agreement and purchase order. Subsequent BT approvals will need to be given and an additional purchase order raised.
General Contact Details
Name: Consultancy and Professional Services Team
Address: pp NS1A4
North Star House
North Star Avenue
Swindon
Wiltshire SN2 1BS
Name: Shelly Anand
Email: shelly.anand@bt.com
Entry Updated: 23rd June 2008
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