At Suncor it is common practice for SCM and Project Management to prepare RFP for some scope of work. They pretend to competitively bid the work but in reality only send it to the preferred EPC (Worley). The justification is that they want to “check the market” to ensure we are not leaving money on the table. Not sure if this practice is ethical when it comes down to Contract Law?
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Suncor doesn’t have ethics. If they did their facilities wouldn’t be death traps.
Look at how many people die there. Suncor needs to go.
I was smiling when I was reading this comment because Suncor executives were in denial that an internal mafia exists from the SCM managers to the bottom (directors have no clue what’s really going on in the background). HR was not really hands-on from the hiring process up to laying off staff. HR was conniving with the corrupted hiring managers in the whistleblowing process so the bullied and more deserving staff to go up the ladder were afraid to say something. Entire SCM and HR staff should be eliminated and hire new ones.
ExxonMobil is really strong in internal controls especially contract msnagement. I worked there overseas and was impressed. Suncor is nowhere near, theres's a lot of room to make favors and receive "kickbacks"
Sole sourcing isn't unethical - there can be any number of good reasons for doing it. However, requesting bids in bad faith is unethical, unless it is made clear to all bidders there is a preferred vendor.
Teams have to justify their role somehow.