Good Afternoon Lorna, (Devon Tenders Support Team Devon County Council)
The Devon County Council Web Site does not make it very clear or easy to register as a service supplier with Devon County Council as we at A1 Positive have tried several times to register on the Devon County Council web site with no success, please can you explain why this is a huge problem with a public service web site?
please read constant problems with the Devon County Council’s Web Site below:-
Sorry, the page you requested: http://www.devon.gov.uk/index/business/doing_business_with_us/procurement-2/supplying_the_council.htm can not be found
Not at all very good why are we paying taxes for a broken public service with an authority who have a web site that is not easy to use where you can never find what you are looking for a very useless website and very bad image for a public service when all we wanted to do was simply register to supply Devon County council as a preferred supplier.
Not very User Friendly at all for Devon County Council we are most disappointed.
A very poorly designed web site who ever did this web site needs to be sacked it’s a very poor design and not user friendly at all what a waste of Tax Payers Money. (No wonder the UK is in Debt)
For a public service we are most disappointed with both Devon Procures Web Site & Devon County Council’s Web Site witch are very, very unprofessional.
With
Kind Regards
From
Mr Positive M/D
A1 Positive Recycling Project Ltd
From: Tender Support – Mailbox [mailto:tendersupport@devon.gov.uk]
Sent: 21 June 2010 16:20
Subject: FW: Secure IT Recycling Services
Importance: High
Good Afternoon
Further to your email earlier today please see the details regarding registration on the South West Councils portal.
The South West Councils use a secure hosted electronic tendering system called ProContract. ProContract provides a user friendly, intuitive system to advertise all open tender and quotation opportunities. It also includes a tender submission wizard to guide suppliers through the submission process.
The Devon Procurement Portal has merged with The Supplying the South West Opportunities portal which will enable you to view all opportunities offered through ProContract by South West Councils.
The portal is free to join for businesses and offers the following advantages:
During registration you will be given the opportunity to select categories which align with your business
- You will automatically receive notification of any opportunities published within the categories selected.
- You can create accounts with multiple users to help you administer your tender interests and responses
- You are in control of your tender submission and not reliant on a third party courier or postal service
- Submissions can be completed electronically rather than hand written
- Submissions can be amended up until the closing date and time
If you chose to register on the system please follow the instructions below:
Open the internet and go to www.devontenders.gov.uk.
Follow the Suppliers Area link at the top of the page
The first heading is for ‘new users’
Follow the “New User” link
This will open a new page and welcome you to ProContract
On the right side click on “register free”
This will open the registration form which comprises of 5 steps for you to complete.
You only need to complete the mandatory red * fields
Once this registration is complete, you will receive a confirmation e-mail and a second e-mail informing you of your username and password.
If you require any assistance, please do not hesitate to contact the helpdesk. Lines are open Monday – Friday 08:30 to 16:30.
Should you have any queries regarding this e-mail please do not hesitate to contact me.
Kind Regards
Lorna
Devon Tenders Support Team
Devon County Council
Devon Procurement Services
2 Trusham Road
Marsh Barton
Exeter
EX2 8RB
Tel: 01392 384659
Fax: 01392 384636
Email: tendersupport@devon.gov.uk
Web Site: www.devon.gov.uk
Disclaimer: www.devon.gov.uk/email.shtml
From: A1 Positive Recycling
Sent: 16 June 2010 12:10
To: Procurement – Mailbox
Subject: Secure IT Recycling Services
Importance: High
Dear Sir/Madam, (Devon County Council Procure Department)
Please find our website link at the bottom of this email to see the services A1 Positive Recycling Project can offer to Devon County Council as we believe that with our recycling and environmental services can reduce Devon County Councils own Co2 emissions by reducing the amount of IT equipment, Mobile Phones, Ink & Toner Cartridges from travelling out of the County of Devon by reducing the carbon footprint for Devon and having a greener, cleaner and safer environment for everyone by recycling, refurbishing in Devon meaning a vast tax payer savings on recycling services at Devon County Council rather than supporting private profit making organisations in the UK.
A1 Positive Recycling are a Devon Based Social Enterprise who aim to raise funds to set up an alternative technology/education centre for Devon to offer help and our services by reducing environmental waste and the environmental impact on Devon’s Environment, A1 believe that all Government departments, Public and private sectors trading in the county of Devon should recycle all there waste in Devon and those that don’t should receive an environment fine when found to not comply with the Duty of Care Leaflet attached this means recycling locally with Social Enterprises who are based in the county of Devon only who can reduce the co2 emissions for the County by working together this can be achieved helping to save the environment to save the world.
http://www.a1prp.co.uk/
A1 Positive Recycling Project the objects of the company shall be to establish a funding stream through the reuse, refurbishment, recycling of IT equipment, mobile phones, the collection and sorting, recycling and sale of Ink & toner cartridges to be re-manufactured, to fund the establishment of an alternative technology/education centre for adults with learning problems and to educate, empower and fund other not-for-profit Social Enterprises with primarily Social objectives for the community of which they serve, promoting “Positive Change Through Social Enterprise”
It looks very clear that UK Government don’t care about the UK Pollution or Co2 emissions getting worse here in the UK.