SUPPLY CHAIN contract managed by my team .” July 2016 will see the manufacture contract awarded . In January 2018 the first train will be delivered with the remainder being supplied at a rate of one or two a month till all 65 are in service by 2019 .
Innovative contracting of this sort is the way forward . As NSW never permits a public Supply Chain contract of more than five years ’ duration but Johny believes that in key supplier areas the model should be a limited number of strategic partners , incentivised by viable
margins . One of these is Amadeus , the world ’ s largest airline booking provider , and he stepped out of line by offering this key partner an eight year contract , though he was able to show that it would save up A $ 8 million over the contract period . Not only did the NSW government sign off the deal – it liked it enough to cite it in its annual summary of best procurement processes .
Not prepared to stop there , he is working on the NSW government through the Procurement Leadership Group , which meets monthly , to
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