Editor's Note has just experienced the glory of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games 2012 London Olympic Games has entered people's vision. To hold the Olympic Games, we should first do a good job related to the procurement process. This article describes the ongoing procurement of the London Olympic Games, the relevant circumstances, both the global overview, there are details of the analysis, worth reading.
According to the plan, the Olympic bowl is located in the east London Olympic Park, will host the Olympic Games opening and closing ceremonies. The stadium seats a total of 80000 is expected to reach 400 million cost 9 1000 6 million pounds (about 700 million a 10 million euros / one billion four million dollars).
London's Olympic stadium on the form under the narrow width, resembles a soup bowl, with the Beijing Olympics "Bird's Nest" exist side by side. At the bottom of the track and field and the bottom of the 25000-seat plane on the ground below, while the upper part of the 55000 seats at the end of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games will all be removed. In addition, in the design, only the VIP seats are blocked, and the other seats are open.
For the 2012 London Olympics to succeed, the British organizers out of the nowadays world's largest shopping list, triggering a bidding war unprecedented.
Procurement of large-scale
Procurement of items from the London Olympic Games venue construction, sports services, protocol device, catering to security, health, technology, transportation, communications, logistics and other services in respect of security, all-encompassing. So far, the total amount of 50 billion pounds of contracts were more than 1,000 suppliers in the bag, which accounted for 98% of British businesses. Procurement and project management is responsible for organizing the Olympic Delivery Authority, said there are 17 billion pounds of procurement contracts be made standard, has attracted thousands of businesses are waiting for.
London's Olympic bid was required to specify the Web site to register and upload CompeteFor.com Company before they are allowed to submit bids for the majority of procurement will be conducted online. Up to now, the site has been issuing more than 10,000 projects, there are more than 5000 procurement projects will be posted.
Encompassing procurement
Now, more than 7,000 people in redoubling its efforts to build the Olympic Park and Olympic Village. Is located in central London, the Royal Horse Guards parade ground of the beach volleyball stadium construction project and has also ground breaking, this venue can accommodate 1,500 spectators, BOCOG is purchasing 5,000 tons of sand, in addition to plans to deploy three sets of metal detectors in case there are Metal sharps incorporation in the sand.
Compared to venues, parks, residences, public information center eye-catching infrastructure projects, and the race equipment and materials are very fragmented and the values are relatively low, but because of its varieties, the total large, also attracted the eyes of suppliers. Olympics sports equipment required more than one million, such as the trampoline 8, hockey 1200, football 1400, pump 92, etc. There are also such as the tens of thousands of seats, 22 million square meters of tents, 400 generators, and 240 kilometers of separation fence and other facilities, it can be said readily available. Service life of the procurement projects are very attractive, only meals should be prepared 14 million copies, the Olympic Village being purchased 17000 beds, 6500 towels and some other daily necessities.
Olympic Games, the Paralympic Games after the purchase is also proceeding. Its procurement list includes 310 wheelchair basketball game with the ball, 600 wheelchair rugby balls, 65 volumes for the bowling ball game tape and so on. In addition, there are some special sporting goods, such as 52 built-in bells Goalball match special ball.
Focus on justice and green procurement
Many people guess the bulk of the sports equipment contracts will be no suspense to be Nike, Adidas, Reebok and other sporting goods company well-known brands carve up, but the Olympic Business Leader Chris? Fujimori confirmed that is not true. He said, "all procurement information is true and complete disclosure to the community, this is a very open, fair and transparent process, we just saw in the most favorable price, but also to fully compare the quality of services and enterprises the ability to . "
Green procurement is a major highlight of the London Olympic Games. Olympic Delivery Authority in 2007 on the development of a sustainable development strategy, including the procurement of low-carbon materials, recycling waste materials, use of rainwater collection, as well as in stadium design, the use of birds and bats nesting technology. The preparatory process, 60% of the materials by rail or water transport, than planned to increase the proportion of 10%. The implementation of sustainable development plans to enable preparatory work for the London Olympic Games, won the award in the British best-building "sustainable Heritage Award." London's mayor, said the construction of the Olympic Park in east London to improve the environment has created opportunities as well as its capital, provides a comprehensive and sustainable development paradigm.
Olympic Games a huge procurement market
Olympic games industry will drive the acceleration of the entire production supply chain operation, and thus the creation of tens of thousands of jobs. The University of Nottingham Business School lecturer at Adam? Black in the "London Olympics 2012 economic impact study" that even London, the UK's economy will be because of the Olympic Games have different degrees of expansion, the report for 2005 as the base year is forecast by 2012 in London and the UK GDP the growth rate will reach 25.8% and 6.6% respectively.
British Chamber of Commerce said the Olympic Games for many enterprises, especially local businesses provide tremendous opportunities for British business minister Peter? Peter Mandelson urged the enterprise make persistent efforts to invoke the saying goes - "success beyond the end, it begins end." LOCOG chairman Sebastian? Branch said that British businesses expect from 2012 onwards into the 10-year golden period of development.
In the "2012 Olympic Games Construction Summit", the British Olympics Minister Tessa? Jowell said the British enterprises in the process of hosting the London Olympic Games has accumulated valuable experience, take to the access to global markets, Scriptures, in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, will take significant advantage of purchasing war. Recently, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio da Silva and British Prime Minister Tony Blair signed a learning experience of the London Olympic Games, the government agreement. Tessa? Jowell pointed out that Russia, Brazil, South Africa, all these will strengthen the infrastructure construction of the Olympic Games, the British enterprises are facing a huge potential market.
Procurement operations could be further improved
Undertake subcontract some of the criticism of the Olympic Games two vendors did not respect their legitimate rights and interests of the procurement, complaining that the system is running some disorder, sometimes when they submit bids to the Web site CompeteFor.com intention to revoke the tender notice, while others marked after the project node Tender Notice hung out again. A few companies have been criticized on the site of the so-called opportunity to just lip service, saying that they vote marked only finished two weeks later received an e-mail notification is not successful, there is no any information about the project, and other destination. There are people CompeteFor.com proprietary standards questioned jokingly procurement people through this platform, "fishing" is actually arbitrary, companies rely on good fortune to be successful. Olympic Procurement Bureau Director, Center for Mo Lage paid? Stewart acknowledged the procurement system has yet to be perfect, but denied possession of the procurement on the tricky, welcomed the public to make comments and suggestions.