BUSDOX HAS EXACTLY WHAT YOU NEED TO SAVE YOU TIME, MONEY AND HEADACHES ....
Many hundreds of hours of work by an experience procurement manager is yours for the cost of less than one day of a consultant’s time.
If you’d like to join the BUSDOX Library of Artefacts, please click the “Join Now” button below or read on to learn more.
If you’d like to join the BUSDOX Library of Artefacts, please click the “Join Now” button below or read on to learn more.
There is no “one right way” to carry out a Procurement Event, a great deal depends on the situation and the personalities involved but a foundation of useful and usable tools is a great place to start. Please remember there is no “one right way” but there are “many wrong ways” so get some experience on your side.
WHAT IS BUSDOX?
BUSDOX is a business that provides documentation, efficiency tools and training materials to assist its busy clients to carry out the management of their procurement event in a timely and cost effectively manner.
Our products are designed to be of use to those who are either not already experts in the field and do not carry out such business processes in their normal day-to-day role, or if they do, they are too busy to do so, and need assistance.
The Library of Artefacts for each business process includes:
Our products are designed to be of use to those who are either not already experts in the field and do not carry out such business processes in their normal day-to-day role, or if they do, they are too busy to do so, and need assistance.
The Library of Artefacts for each business process includes:
- Detailed step-by-step process guides (printable and online versions)
- Visual training materials
- Checklists and registers
- Assessment models
- Templates to assist in the preparation of documents for a multitude of related activities
WHO IS BUSDOX?
The founder and owner of BUSDOX is Colin Wilson. Colin worked as a professional engineer at Telstra for many years carrying out large scale Procurement Events and later in his 28-year career with the big carrier, was on the other side of the table, responding to tenders and making offers to some of Australia’s largest corporations including National Australia Bank and BHP-Billiton. Colin spent a substantial part of the past 25 years working and learning the procurement business. He has been involved a most aspects and has seen it from both sides, all contributing greatly to a broad understanding and creative perspective.
Since leaving Telstra in 2000, Colin has worked with some of Australia’s largest corporations. His most recent client was Australia Post where he successfully managed, on their behalf, a large Procurement Event for a replacement of their mid-range computing platform as well as a number of subsequent procurement exercises.
Since leaving Telstra in 2000, Colin has worked with some of Australia’s largest corporations. His most recent client was Australia Post where he successfully managed, on their behalf, a large Procurement Event for a replacement of their mid-range computing platform as well as a number of subsequent procurement exercises.
“I love this stuff but I understand its not everyone’s cup of tea. I also know how many companies, large and small, don’t have this material at their fingertips and if they do have some on someone’s hard-drive, they don’t necessarily have the time to get it into shape. That’s were we come in. We make your life that little bit better.”
BENEFITS OF MEMBERSHIP
Here are three important ways you will benefit by signing up to a BUSDOX Library membership:
You’ll save a great deal of time:
You’ll save a great deal of money:
You’ll save a great many headaches:
You’ll save a great deal of time:
- All artefacts are created by the owner and have been tried and proven – they work
- The detailed process guide will lead you through the event in the right order – no re-work
- There were over 60 artefacts at last count which you won’t need to re-invent
- All updates will be made available to all members
You’ll save a great deal of money:
- You can get all our procurement artefacts for the low cost of ½ a day of a consultant
- The cost of creating the artefacts currently available, well exceeds $100,000
- There is much more than just the artefacts to a Library membership
You’ll save a great many headaches:
- All assessment models have been fully tested and are free of bugs
- We craft our documentation in a concise and accurate manner
- We are focused on the quality of the artefacts not on upselling professional services
- All artefacts are guaranteed or fixed for free
AND THAT'S JUST THE ARTEFACTS ...
Also included in an BUSDOX Library membership are:
If you agree with me that this offer represents great value, please click the “JOIN NOW” button below. You will be directed to a secure order form where you will be invited to make payment via PayPal, Amercian Express, MasterCard or Visa. You will then receive a confirmation email within a few minutes of processing your order.
I’m looking forward, a great deal, to working with you.
- Email notification of all updated and new documents which members are at liberty to access
- Podcasts, training material and tutorials
- Access to participate in the BUSDOX blog
- A guarantee that we will repair, at no cost to the client, any source artefacts found to be in error
- Any suggestions you propose regarding development of additional artefacts will be given priority in our development plans, subject to a broader potential interest
If you agree with me that this offer represents great value, please click the “JOIN NOW” button below. You will be directed to a secure order form where you will be invited to make payment via PayPal, Amercian Express, MasterCard or Visa. You will then receive a confirmation email within a few minutes of processing your order.
I’m looking forward, a great deal, to working with you.
If you’d like further information to help in your decision, please keep reading.
WHAT IS IN THE PROCESS GUIDE?
The driving document is the detailed step-by-step Process Guide. Included are such topics as:
- Setting up a great governance structure
- Validating technical and commercial requirements
- Transforming requirements into standard format
- Defining a procurement strategy
- Defining a sourcing strategy
- Setting up the schedule
- Setting up the financials
- Setting up a quality platform
- Team building and getting the right team structures and the most capable members
- Preparation of documentation (what is required and when) – all documents start with a BUSDOX template so no time-wasting re-inventing the wheel
- Bidder discovery to ensure the right bidders are engaged
- Bidder pre-selection to ensure the right bidders bid
- Getting the RFx package drafted and approved
- Issuing the RFx
- Running bidder induction
- Receiving, registering and acknowledging bids
- Organising bidder presentation
- Managing the bidder Q&A using the template
- Managing probity
- Managing lessons learned
- Weighting the assessment criteria and gaining consensus
- Setting up and distribution of the technical, commercial and financials assessment models for the evaluation and assessment
- Assessment of bids using the technical, commercial and financials assessment models
- Assessing total cost of ownership
- Conducting the technical and commercial to financial matching exercise
- Completing the “Overall” assessment
- Carrying out the validation process
- Carrying out reference checks
- Carrying out site visits
- Carrying out solution demonstrations
- Carrying out internal interviews
- Completing the interim recommendation template
- Conducting the best and final offers process
- Completing the final evaluation process
- Final validation
- Completing the final recommendation template
- Gaining governance endorsement
- Contract execution
- Managing the closure of the procurement event
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Why would I want to work with BUSDOX?
Our artefacts are professionally created and have all been tried and proven. All assessment models have been fully tested and are free of bugs, which are common in such models. We craft our documentation in a concise and accurate manner to ensure speed and ease of use by the client. We are very responsive to client needs and highly cost effective.
Why BUSDOX and not some other company?
We are focused on the quality of the artefacts not on upselling professional services. Many companies are happy to offer free document templates to stimulation your interest but finding something that is useful and usable is another challenge.
What are the features of BUSDOX?
What are the benefits of BUSDOX?
What documents are actually included in the membership?
The numbers are increasing all the time and will continue to do so. At last count we had:
Are your costs justifiable?
They most definitely are. Full access to the BUSDOX Library, as well as the other benefits mentioned above, costs about the same as about ½ day of a consultant. If you hire a consultant to develop what we are offering it may cost you as much as 50 to 100 times more just to get these artefacts prepared.
Couldn’t anyone prepare this material?
Well you may think so, after all, everything is created in MS Word, MS PowerPoint or MS Excel with the occassional use of the Windows Snipping Tool. The real secret to the artefacts though is the intellectual property that underlies their appearance of being merely a document or a spreadsheet.
For example with the detailed step-by-step process guide, a substantial amount of operational knowledge of the procurement business is required to create a document with all the necessary activities in the right order in which they should be completed. If you get the order wrong you could substantially increase your workload or jeopardise the outcome altogether. Leave out a vital step and you may find angry bosses and angry bidders beating a path to your door.
Consider please another example, most people can make a fist at putting together a spreadsheet, but how long will it take them to create a spreadsheet model that can cater for 1,000 criteria, double weighted and based on Kepner-Tregoe analysis. A model that is so simple to use that the assessor does little more than plug in their criteria scores.
Our models then bring together up to ten bidders assessed by up to ten separate assessors. As you can see in this example, the number of variables is starting to creep up, and so is the possibility of a small calculating or copying error causing a flaw in the outcome. Membership includes four sets of models, instructions to step you through the use of each one and samples of models in various states of completion to instill confidence in the user.
Our artefacts are professionally created and have all been tried and proven. All assessment models have been fully tested and are free of bugs, which are common in such models. We craft our documentation in a concise and accurate manner to ensure speed and ease of use by the client. We are very responsive to client needs and highly cost effective.
Why BUSDOX and not some other company?
We are focused on the quality of the artefacts not on upselling professional services. Many companies are happy to offer free document templates to stimulation your interest but finding something that is useful and usable is another challenge.
What are the features of BUSDOX?
- All artefacts for a given business process are included in a membership
- We provide both downloadable process documents as well as online equivalent with linkages to supporting artefacts, makes for ease of use and for online training aids
- We warrant our products and if something is not working as it should, we’ll fix it under warranty
What are the benefits of BUSDOX?
- Our goal is to satisfy the client with our online artefacts, not to upsell professional services
- All artefacts are clear and well designed, we take pride in quality and we make all artefacts as concise as they can be, without losing value, meaning or accuracy
- We have used all of the artefacts in real business environments so we know they work
What documents are actually included in the membership?
The numbers are increasing all the time and will continue to do so. At last count we had:
- 1 detailed step-by-step process guide
- 4 sets of assessment models
- 11 assessment model samples
- 7 checklists
- 7 registers
- 5 reports
- 5 miscellaneous templates
- 5 presentations
- 5 specifications / schedules
- 7 specification / schedule samples
- 2 go to market packs (RFP and EOI) more coming shortly
- 12 correspondence templates
Are your costs justifiable?
They most definitely are. Full access to the BUSDOX Library, as well as the other benefits mentioned above, costs about the same as about ½ day of a consultant. If you hire a consultant to develop what we are offering it may cost you as much as 50 to 100 times more just to get these artefacts prepared.
Couldn’t anyone prepare this material?
Well you may think so, after all, everything is created in MS Word, MS PowerPoint or MS Excel with the occassional use of the Windows Snipping Tool. The real secret to the artefacts though is the intellectual property that underlies their appearance of being merely a document or a spreadsheet.
For example with the detailed step-by-step process guide, a substantial amount of operational knowledge of the procurement business is required to create a document with all the necessary activities in the right order in which they should be completed. If you get the order wrong you could substantially increase your workload or jeopardise the outcome altogether. Leave out a vital step and you may find angry bosses and angry bidders beating a path to your door.
Consider please another example, most people can make a fist at putting together a spreadsheet, but how long will it take them to create a spreadsheet model that can cater for 1,000 criteria, double weighted and based on Kepner-Tregoe analysis. A model that is so simple to use that the assessor does little more than plug in their criteria scores.
Our models then bring together up to ten bidders assessed by up to ten separate assessors. As you can see in this example, the number of variables is starting to creep up, and so is the possibility of a small calculating or copying error causing a flaw in the outcome. Membership includes four sets of models, instructions to step you through the use of each one and samples of models in various states of completion to instill confidence in the user.
DOES THIS SCENARIO STRIKE A CHORD
“Hi Boss
Re: Your enquiry about the widgets.
I’ve got a million things to do, to prepare for our US visit next month, and I honestly don’t have time for this at the moment. I’d give it to Sue but I don’t think she has the experience to make solid progress without interrupting me or one of the other managers every five minutes for direction. She’s smart enough to pull it all together though, if only she had some form of guidance. Terry could do the spreadsheet models but he’s flat out, anyway he’s about to go on long service leave and we need to get this moving. As I see it Boss, we have three choices.I’ll ask Sue to do some research on this when she returns from Sydney tomorrow and I’ll get back to you by tomorrow evening.
- We postpone for six months, until things settle down around here, as if that will ever happen. The risk is we’ll be out of contract for supply of widgets by Widget Corp by the end of October and will have to pay full market rate at an extra cost of about $8,000 per month.
- We get in an experience procurement guy to get it moving. The risk is how long before we can get the right guy and in any case we’re talking at least $7,500 per week for maybe a month or longer.
- We can try to find something online that will give us a leg up. Perhaps someone has put together a generic procedure that Sue could follow, and with a little luck, perhaps even some of the spreadsheets and document templates will be available as well.
Cheers, Susan
Astute Manager”
COST OF MEMBERSHIP ...
The cost of a membership to the BUSDOX Library of Artefacts is only A$999 ex. GST.
YOUR MEMBERSHIP IS A GREAT INVESTMENT ...
Let’s get specific – so what you will get for about half a day worth of a consultants time is:
- 1 detailed step-by-step Process Guide
- 4 sets of assessment models
- 11 assessment model samples
- 7 checklists
- 7 registers
- 5 reports
- 5 miscellaneous templates
- 5 presentations
- 5 specifications / schedules
- 7 specification / schedule samples
- 2 go-to-market packs (RFP and EOI) with more coming shortly
- 13 correspondence templates
- Email notification of all updated and new documents which you are at liberty to access
- Podcasts, training material and tutorials
- Access to participate in the BUSDOX blog
- A guarantee that we will repair, at no cost to you, any source artefacts found to be in error
- Priority to suggestions from you regarding development of additional artefacts
A COST BENEFIT STATEMENT FOR YOUR BOSS ...
“Hi Boss
Re: Purchase of BUSDOX Membership
BUSDOX, by way of a Library membership, offer access to an extensive range of prepared material that we need to get our hands on, to get the procurement of widgets for 2015 moving. The range of artefacts seems to cover everything we need from a detailed step-by-step process guide with associated support tools and documents; to a collection of important document templates; to a suite of technical, commercial and financial models which will simplify our evaluation and ensure it is accurate and defensible.
Having read through their free whitepaper entitled Procurement Fundamentals, I’m confident that BUSDOX have the capability we need. The cost of a Library membership, at less than $1,000, is less than a single day of a consultant or project manager.
Membership will give us the following benefits:
- Immediate start
- Substantial savings
- Proven process and tested models
- Support is available if we require it
Approval to purchase is strongly recommended.
Cheers, Susan
Astute Manager”