Vendor selection support process

Our team supported the company through the six month evaluation process for selection of hardware.  We were also  creating the strategy and commercial/business plans as well as obtaining finance at the same time.

Our support for the CTO included:

• Review and amendment of RFQ documentation in support of the CTO
• Contribution to evaluation schemes
• Evaluation of technical offers across OSS/BSS stack, core, edge, wireless, fibre, inter-city, intra-city, CPE etc for up to 500,000 subscribers in 25 cities
• Clarification meetings with short-listed vendors
• Negotiation with vendors
• Identification of issues created by the technology/vendor choice (e.g. identified error in OSP design that would have cost per > $1750 per subscriber)
• Review of detailed compliance against specification and modification of evaluation scores as necessary
• Signing the recommendation of vendor choices across more than $250 million of investment