May 2016 - Keystone Procurement

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Keystone Column 21 – Geopolitical risks and international business growth

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Keystone Column containing business stories and public procurement opportunities that drive the international business growth of ambitious companies. This week, we consider how to manage geopolitical risks to supply chains and look at how a regional start-up from a small fishing village can grow into an international business. Business stories…

Donnacha Phelan27th May 2016

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Keystone Column 20 – Public procurement consortiums

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Keystone Column containing business stories that drive the commercial strategy of ambitious companies focused on public procurement consortiums. This week, we examine what changes the newly transposed EU Procurement Directives bring for Irish business, and why public procurement consortiums are gaining new importance. Also,…

Donnacha Phelan20th May 2016

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Building a consortium: together you can be more

Owner/Manager businesses often tell us that they feel they are being excluded from public procurement contests. We have written elsewhere about how companies can improve their bid management capabilities (through the development of a better strategy, by seeking bid management support or by obtaining training on writing bids). Increasingly, the…

Ross McCarthy16th May 2016

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The Keystone Column No. 19 – Bid Management Opportunities

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Keystone Column containing business stories and bid management opportunities that drive the commercial strategy of ambitious companies focused on public procurement. Business stories - bid management opportunities Silicon Republic reports on yet another delay to the rollout of the long-awaited National Broadband Plan which aims to…

Donnacha Phelan13th May 2016

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The Keystone Column No. 18 – managing winning tenders for SMEs

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Keystone Column containing business stories and public procurement opportunities that drive the commercial strategy of ambitious companies interested in managing winning tenders. Business stories - managing winning tenders US President Barack Obama recently entered the Brexit debate on the side of those advocating that…

Donnacha Phelan6th May 2016