Comments on: Carnival tender offer period opens and closes in just an hour https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/carnival-tender-offer-period-opens-and-closes-in-just-an-hour/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Fri, 14 Feb 2014 12:08:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: zz https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/carnival-tender-offer-period-opens-and-closes-in-just-an-hour/#comment-1565103 Fri, 14 Feb 2014 12:08:50 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=44157#comment-1565103 I have interests in following the tendering process and quite often I come across tenders which have to be submitted within a mere day from their issue. One would barely have time to pick up the document or download it, fill it up and submit it – unless one has inside information.

I have noticed that certain tenders seem to be tailor made for particular companies. I wonder why certain details/specifications have been included in the tender document, and can only conclude that it has been designed in such a way that only one, predetermined supplier can satisfy the requirements and win the tender.

Tenders sometimes also include a maximum bid value with phrases such as “offers over €xxxx will not be considered” – a value which would leave no commercial profit or return. Whoever wins the tender must therefore have another “source of profit” to make the tender supply viable.

]]> By: Jozef https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/carnival-tender-offer-period-opens-and-closes-in-just-an-hour/#comment-1563558 Thu, 13 Feb 2014 19:05:53 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=44157#comment-1563558 Don’t blame Herrera, instructions to open and close the tender within the hour from the OPM.

Leaks on the increase lately.

]]> By: liverpool f.c. https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/carnival-tender-offer-period-opens-and-closes-in-just-an-hour/#comment-1561070 Wed, 12 Feb 2014 18:42:03 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=44157#comment-1561070 Heq, it has to be Labour. Same old story.

]]> By: Jozef https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/carnival-tender-offer-period-opens-and-closes-in-just-an-hour/#comment-1560736 Wed, 12 Feb 2014 15:10:52 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=44157#comment-1560736 In reply to Anthony.

If, as Net News reported, there was a major clash between the PS and his staff, the latter apparently piloted by Jason Micallef leading to this mess, Herrera has no other alternative than to hand in his resignation.

]]> By: Jozef https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/carnival-tender-offer-period-opens-and-closes-in-just-an-hour/#comment-1560730 Wed, 12 Feb 2014 15:08:10 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=44157#comment-1560730 In reply to Bubu.

Red tape matters; it prevents this type of abuse.

]]> By: Jozef https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/carnival-tender-offer-period-opens-and-closes-in-just-an-hour/#comment-1560726 Wed, 12 Feb 2014 15:06:15 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=44157#comment-1560726 That tender is null: it wasn’t announced on the Government Gazette, the number of offers received does not automatically preclude others and the period of time allowed for submissions wasn’t defined nor can it be restricted to the single working day.

]]> By: observer https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/carnival-tender-offer-period-opens-and-closes-in-just-an-hour/#comment-1560252 Wed, 12 Feb 2014 09:59:33 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=44157#comment-1560252 In reply to Mariella Caruana.

Herrera haratum est.

]]> By: Bubu https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/carnival-tender-offer-period-opens-and-closes-in-just-an-hour/#comment-1560115 Wed, 12 Feb 2014 07:57:25 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=44157#comment-1560115 All in the name of efficiency and.cutting down on the red tape I suppose.

]]> By: Claude Sciberras https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/carnival-tender-offer-period-opens-and-closes-in-just-an-hour/#comment-1559686 Wed, 12 Feb 2014 00:17:16 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=44157#comment-1559686 Lanqas jisthu… The least they could do is to try and give a semblance of giving others a chance…

]]> By: Mariella Caruana https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/carnival-tender-offer-period-opens-and-closes-in-just-an-hour/#comment-1559596 Tue, 11 Feb 2014 23:13:16 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=44157#comment-1559596 In reply to Anthony.

Herrera erratum est

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