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Stevo

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It's also lower than the annual cost of employing the person so in the medium to long term it's an efficient way to reduce staff numbers and salary commitments.

But where the work is still being done, just outside Staffordshire, that'll hit local businesses unless new local jobs are created, since my job has been uncertain I've reduced my 'luxury' spending on clothing, fruit, socialising and entertainment, living on the bare minimum, knowing these redundancy cuts were coming which would have been my safety net for the 6-12 months it could take me to find work.
 
Feed The Goat

Feed The Goat

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The providers who do the outsourced work come in at a low rate even making a loss. When they have the contract they then try to renegotiate and add extortionate add ons for additional services in order to make it pay.
 
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Stevo

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Feed The Goat said:
The providers who do the outsourced work come in at a low rate even making a loss. When they have the contract they then try to renegotiate and add extortionate add ons for additional services in order to make it pay.
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You have this outsourcing business down to a tee, do you work for Capita by any chance?
 
Mikinton

Mikinton

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Feed The Goat said:
The providers who do the outsourced work come in at a low rate even making a loss. When they have the contract they then try to renegotiate and add extortionate add ons for additional services in order to make it pay.
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I used to work quite closely with the council's Highways Works division many years ago, and because of the rules on competitive tendering, they had to tender for contracts issued by the council's client side.

The tactics in tendering were to work out a price for the job that'll make you a profit. Then identify items where the client had underestimated and bump up the price on those, and at the same time identify items where the client had overestimated and drop the price on those. Then after it's completed and things had panned out, you should have made a bit more than the profit you'd expected from the original price for the job.
 
1JKz

1JKz

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I like this building.
Continues to shock me how often some digger (or whatever) is parked up outside, and surrounded by metal fence, between the two buildings.

SAVINGS SAVINGS SAVINGS!
 
Mikinton

Mikinton

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I used to enjoy working in Staffordshire Place, not necessarily because of the building itself, but because all my colleagues were under one roof. If I had to meet someone, it was a short walk to the other building or, at worst, across Tipping Street. Much better than having to walk from Green Hall to Sandyford Street, calling in Eastgate Street on the way back.
 
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daz100

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Finally some progress. Does anyone know is it retail? Restaurants?
Now just to sort out the unit next to revolution and the tavern.
 
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