CANADA says Bolen . “ We scale the complexity of the sourcing methods to fit the individual business objectives , within the confines of public procurement practice . For example , the processes that we implemented to justify contract awards within our lottery division are the same for other business divisions across the organisation .”

Digitisation is also starting to reshape BCLC ’ s procurement function , making it more efficient and visible than ever before .

Bolen describes his team ’ s increased engagement and efficiency thanks to the streamlined technology , such as an e-sourcing tool called Bonfire . “ Vendors register and sign into the system and download their proposals to Bonfire , and then the system facilitates the evaluation process using an automated scorecard ,” Bolen explains .

“ The Bonfire system has organised the information in such a manner that it ’ s greatly improved the efficiency of how evaluators access the proposals and greatly enhanced how each evaluator may compare each response to a question across every proposal . It ’ s provided us with real-time reporting as to which vendors have replied , what stage each evaluator is at in reviewing proposals , and elapsed time taken at each

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