Q. Which of the following is incorrect regarding a bidders conference?

Submitted by y0zh on Thu, 04/25/2013 - 13:27

Which of the following is incorrect regarding a bidders conference?




  1. Add a note hereQuestions from each seller should be handled confidentially and not shared with other sellers.



  2. Add a note hereNo bidders should receive preferential treatment, even if they are part of the company's existing list of approved suppliers.



  3. Add a note hereBidders conferences should not involve face-to-face meetings



  4. Add a note hereAll prospective sellers should be allowed to have a common understanding of the procurement.

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jethalal

Thu, 04/25/2013 - 13:40

We did the same lst week while floating tender of internet leased line by calling all the telecom operators and discussed the requirements in a combined conference meeting.

y0zh

Thu, 04/25/2013 - 13:44

I believe there is a mistake in Scordo which says A


A - A key objective of a bidders conference is to ensure that all bidders have the same level of understanding of the procurements. Hence, in order to be completely fair, buyers must ensure that all sellers hear every question from any individual prospective seller and every answer from the buyer.


[Refer PMBOK 4th Edition, page 331] [Project Procurement Management]

san

Thu, 04/25/2013 - 13:46

Answer should be A. Because , all bidders should have same level of understanding of the  procurements and should not maintain any confidentiality with other sellers.

Correct me if I am wrong..

 

Thanks.

 

 

 

 

 

y0zh

Thu, 04/25/2013 - 13:46

can you please provide any reference in PMBOK?

san

Thu, 04/25/2013 - 13:57

Please refer to 12.2.2

It says every one should be have clear and common understanding of procurement. This can be be achieved only when buyer shares the information with all sellers and there is no need of maintaining confidentiality on queries.

Thanks

jethalal

Thu, 04/25/2013 - 14:00

Ya this is where real exp helps. Whenever we tend to float a tender in our company we used to call all the sellers before finally floating the e-tender on our portals.

Regarding pmbok- i nevr studied it . Its a sleeping pill. I m preparing from Rita, Andy Crowe and Sybex.

jethalal

Thu, 04/25/2013 - 13:55

If u r giving the reason - "all bidders should have same level of understanding of the procurements and should not maintain any confidentiality with other sellers". Then answer must be D not A which i suggested earlier.

Plz read carefully.

san

Thu, 04/25/2013 - 15:19

It is asking as what is incorrect but not which is correct. Hope you are clear now

sspawar

Thu, 04/25/2013 - 14:09

 12.2.2.1

LAST 2 LINES

ANS ---A

Be careful - it is doublly negative q.

y0zh

Thu, 04/25/2013 - 14:45

this is one more wording question. the key word here is: what is incorrect, which I missed among many questions. Be careful...

BK

Thu, 04/25/2013 - 15:26

 It's A cause all bidder should have common understanding.

Jgrind07

Thu, 04/25/2013 - 17:09

 Option A is correct; but when you look at option C - it's an incorrect option too. Bidder conferences can be F2F. So why not the answer to be C? 

Is option A selected because its there in PMBOK? 

vivek919

Thu, 06/27/2013 - 01:06

Answer shd be C

sertugy

Thu, 06/27/2013 - 05:53

Answer is A Check section 12.2.2 at PMBOK.Book mentions that "buyers must take great care to ensure that all prospect sellers hear every question from any individual prospective seller and every answer from the buyer" so there is no place to accept confident questions or hide them from other sellers