The open, online process used by a small consortium, led by RNUK Ltd’s CEO, Simon Berry, to develop their bid to run the Innovation Exchange has been nominated for an award.
The nomination was made by Nick Booth. In a blog entry on Podnosh he wrote “Cards to the chest bidding can lead to bidders being blind to the best ideas. The open source tender had at least 500 minds involved”.
Nick nominated the Open Innovation Exchange under the ‘Modernising Government’ theme of the New Statesman ‘New Media Awards’. You can read what others think of the nomination and rate and comment on it yourself here: http://www.newstatesman.com/nma/nma2007/nominations/200705180011
“At the start we were not sure how the process would go or how it would feel,” said Simon Berry. “But once we got started, we committed to the open process. We put everything online: rough drafts, outline concepts, the lot. It made any other way of doing it look inadequate.
“I think we have come up with a new and open method of bidding for the delivery of Government services which will drive up the quality of responses to tenders.”
More than 500 people read the bid under development and more than 90 contributions were received. The final bid was delivered to the Office of the Third Sector on Monday, 14 May. Selected bidders will be called for interview on 12 June and a decision is expected shortly after.
Notes
1) The Open Innovation Exchange is still open for comments and discussion here: http://www.innovationexchange.net
2) Nick Booth’s article can be read here: http://www.podnosh.com/blog/2007/05/18/openinnovation/
3) Details of the New Statesman Awards are available here: http://www.newstatesman.com/nma/nma2007/nma2007about.php
4) RNUK Ltd is the wholly owned trading subsidiary of the rural
regeneration charity ruralnet|uk (Charity Number: 1089238).
http://www.ruralnetuk.org
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