Summary: | The aim of this thesis is to investigate the procurement of maintenance at SvK. Byunderstanding the process that has led to the current procurement strategy; providesuggestions to how the procurement of maintenance can be improved to ensure thequality of future maintenance of the national grid.A god client can be associated with a number of qualities, “acquisition competence”.Vinnova describes acquisition competence as the ability to plan, formulate,communicate and monitor. Different businesses and industries have different needsand opportunities and operate in different economic structures which requireadjustments in their acquisition competence. A number of areas have been identified,called areas of focus, where clients can adjust their competences to their markets.The areas of focus are competition, competence/quality, control and communication.By defining the need of acquisition competence for SvK and identifying problems, anumber of suggested strategies have been proposed. The suggestions to the upcomingprocurements are, shortening the period of contract, procurement of geographicsubdivision, break out different techniques from the contract of stations, evaluationsof the tenders, KPI, cooperation models. We recommend, from the suggestedstrategies, shorter period of contract, break out different techniques from thecontract of stations, evaluations of the tenders, KPI and collaborative models.
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