Boskalis

Boskalis originally a Dutch company, has over 100 years of experience in hydraulic engineering, coastal protection and land reclamation. Headquartered in Papendrecht, they have an extensive office network across the globe.

Boskalis was keen to acquire a resource planning system (aka Pool planning) for short-cycle projects such as tenders. This required a selection based on requirements and wishes, which then formed part of the implementation project and contract to be concluded with the selected supplier. The supplier and chosen solution had to have sufficient support within the entire Boskalis organisation.

"Improven has a proven methodology for selecting a new application, supplier and/or service. Partly because of this, IMPROVEN managed to speed up the selection process for Boskalis by using Improven specific templates."

Our approach

Improven has a proven methodology for selecting a new application, supplier and/or service. Partly because of this, IMPROVEN managed to speed up the selection process for Boskalis by using Improven-specific templates.

In a relatively short period of six weeks, Improven prepared a comprehensive RFP package and approached as many promising supplier options as possible. After a telephone screening of the longlist, 8 parties were assessed within the process. After evaluation, 4 suppliers were invited to give a specific product demonstration based on pre-prepared demo scripts. Due to the quality of the RFP process already completed, a Proof of Concept was also organised by Improven in a relatively short period of several weeks, during which the suppliers set up the chosen applications specifically for Boskalis to have some key operations performed by real users in a production-like environment.

Result

Boskalis selected a new pool planning system in a relatively short period of time. The selection process had the following results:

  • A System Requirements Analysis (SRA), based on the desired processes and solutions to the current bottlenecks from a process analysis. In addition to the functional, the SRA includes the technical and security aspects for the selection, as coordinated with Boskalis IT's information architects.
  • demo scripts based on the SRA and desired processes with coordination with key-users
  • RFP and SRA answers summary including initial price comparison.
  • Scripts for a proof of concept
  • The final report with justification of the final choice and advice for the follow-up trajectory
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