Don't Kill Innovation With Public Tenders

Virtual Frontier

In this episode, we welcome Baddy Sonja Breidert, CEO and co-founder at 1x Internet, Rouven Volk, CEO at Powerpool Solutions R&D, and Johanna Anthes, Head of communication at Bright Solutions. Our today's topic is how to kill innovation with public tender or let's better say, how not to kill innovation in the process of a public tender.

We will talk about the meaning of public tender, which dilemmas are often associated with them, and which possibilities there might be to design tenders in a way that innovation is not killed doing the tendering phase. You might think, what a boring topic, you guys want to put me asleep right away, but far from it. Let's listen to the approaches, solutions, and experiences of our today's panelists on how to realize innovative projects in the public sector.

QUESTIONS AND VIEWS HIGHLIGHTED IN THIS EPISODE:

• What is the public tender all about?
• Why we do need public tenders in the first place?
• What is the dilemma when it comes to innovation during a public tender?
• How is innovation often killed in a public tender?
• Which alternatives are out there to have a fair and transparent tender process?

EXCERPTS YOU MIGHT WANT TO JUMP IN

[00:00] Intro

[12:46] Big projects or outcomes? Where is your focus?

[21:19] The evaluation of the offers received

[29:10] Killing innovation with a public tender right at the start

[35:30] Budgets and the real cost of not changing things that really matter

[42:20] Getting to a more honest process when it comes to a public tender

[44:23] Some positive alternatives demonstrating that change is possible

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For our English-speaking community. This is an English episode and you can find the transcript of this conversation now in more than 20 languages, on our Blog, at HappyScribe Public, or watch the video with subtitles for this episode on our YouTube Channel. You'll find all the links in the show notes below.

🔗 LINKS & HINTS IN THIS EPISODE

Visit the Website of Rouven's Company Powerpool Solutions R+D

Find out more about the work of Baddy's agency 1xINTERNET

Get ready for your next public tender and check out the additional content on the Blog of Bright Solutions.

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