Paul Youdell

Paul Youdell

LGP: COMING SOON

Hi all & wishing you a Happy New Year. The Business Development Team is excited to share what’s coming up in the next few months at LGP. VendorPanel & Contract Usage Training Sessions In 2025, LGP will continue to host free VendorPanel Usage & LGP Contract Training Sessions for NSW Council staff. Our first session […]

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Hi all & wishing you a Happy New Year. The Business Development Team is excited to share what’s coming up in the next few months at LGP. VendorPanel & Contract Usage Training Sessions In 2025, LGP will continue to host free VendorPanel Usage & LGP Contract Training Sessions for NSW Council staff. Our first session

Get to Know Us

Welcome friends & strangers!    You know someone, but how well do you really know them? I’m inviting you to join me on a new series of articles to do just that, get to know us better.   Over the course of FY25 we will explore “Who is LGP?”, “What does LGP do?” and any other

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Welcome friends & strangers!    You know someone, but how well do you really know them? I’m inviting you to join me on a new series of articles to do just that, get to know us better.   Over the course of FY25 we will explore “Who is LGP?”, “What does LGP do?” and any other

Helpful Tips to Engage LGP Contracts on VendorPanel

Hello, it is July already & the new financial year is underway. For the final instalment in this series on using VendorPanel & LGP Contracts I wanted to recap the discoveries & tips we’ve shared along the way. VendorPanel has a dedicated Help Centre, use the logo located top right of the screen: Clicking here

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Hello, it is July already & the new financial year is underway. For the final instalment in this series on using VendorPanel & LGP Contracts I wanted to recap the discoveries & tips we’ve shared along the way. VendorPanel has a dedicated Help Centre, use the logo located top right of the screen: Clicking here

Introducing Paul Youdell

Who am I? I’m the first Australian born of my family, who all hail from around the beautiful Lake District area in the UK. My Dad was an electrical engineer who was asked to set up a branch of his then company in Sydney, which explains my constant curiosity for how things work (& also

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Who am I? I’m the first Australian born of my family, who all hail from around the beautiful Lake District area in the UK. My Dad was an electrical engineer who was asked to set up a branch of his then company in Sydney, which explains my constant curiosity for how things work (& also

Helpful Tips to Engage LGP Contracts on VendorPanel – Tip 8

Hello, and thanks for joining me once again. Last time, we covered how to finalise your request and, at this point, the VendorPanel side of your RFQ is now complete! The next few things to consider with your RFQ are documentation, disclosure requirements & any last steps. How does your council execute a contract with

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Hello, and thanks for joining me once again. Last time, we covered how to finalise your request and, at this point, the VendorPanel side of your RFQ is now complete! The next few things to consider with your RFQ are documentation, disclosure requirements & any last steps. How does your council execute a contract with

Helpful Tips to Engage LGP Contracts on VendorPanel – Tip 7

Thanks for tuning in again! Last time I showed you how to find the RFQ you’ve posted to LGP approved suppliers & we’ve explored everything we can do with it right up until the RFQ closes. And by closes, I mean – that the time you have specified for suppliers to be able to respond

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Thanks for tuning in again! Last time I showed you how to find the RFQ you’ve posted to LGP approved suppliers & we’ve explored everything we can do with it right up until the RFQ closes. And by closes, I mean – that the time you have specified for suppliers to be able to respond

Helpful Tips to Engage LGP Contracts on VendorPanel – Tip 6

Last month we created and posted an RFQ, sending it out to a selection of LGP Approved Contractors. This month I want to look into the next part of the process with you, so let’s find our RFQ and see what’s been happening. When you log into VendorPanel you can see your requests on your

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Last month we created and posted an RFQ, sending it out to a selection of LGP Approved Contractors. This month I want to look into the next part of the process with you, so let’s find our RFQ and see what’s been happening. When you log into VendorPanel you can see your requests on your

Best Of Both Worlds

LGP’s Consulting & Training Webinar is happening on March 12th, have you registered yet? The purpose of this webinar is to showcase the scope & opportunities available from LGP’s own Consulting & Training teams. Joining us on the day will be Margret Szanto (F-IACCM) – Head of Consulting & Niv Roy (M.Sc. (IT), PGDBA, PhD,

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LGP’s Consulting & Training Webinar is happening on March 12th, have you registered yet? The purpose of this webinar is to showcase the scope & opportunities available from LGP’s own Consulting & Training teams. Joining us on the day will be Margret Szanto (F-IACCM) – Head of Consulting & Niv Roy (M.Sc. (IT), PGDBA, PhD,

Helpful Tips to Engage LGP Contracts on VendorPanel – Tip 5

Hello all & welcome back! A quick recap, or if you have just joined us, we have been completing an RFQ in VendorPanel using the Request Wizard (after a brief introduction to VendorPanel.) So far, we have entered the request name, selected our approved suppliers to contact and filled in some details around our request.

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Hello all & welcome back! A quick recap, or if you have just joined us, we have been completing an RFQ in VendorPanel using the Request Wizard (after a brief introduction to VendorPanel.) So far, we have entered the request name, selected our approved suppliers to contact and filled in some details around our request.

VendorPanel Training Webinars & Updated Guides

You may have noticed VendorPanel has had a few cosmetic updates in the last few months, so we have updated a couple of LGP’s guides. Though the changes are minor, we wanted to highlight them as they relate to how the site currently looks, so as to avoid any confusion. They can be found here.

VendorPanel Training Webinars & Updated Guides Read More »

You may have noticed VendorPanel has had a few cosmetic updates in the last few months, so we have updated a couple of LGP’s guides. Though the changes are minor, we wanted to highlight them as they relate to how the site currently looks, so as to avoid any confusion. They can be found here.

Guide to Evaluating RFQs and Awarding Contracts Under LGP Panels

LGP is happy to announce a new resource for councils: “A Guide to Evaluating RFQs and Awarding Contracts under LGP Panels” This guide continues on from where our “Guide to Using LGP Contracts” finishes. Located in the Resource section of the LGP website lgp.org.au (top right from the home screen) Inside you will find information

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LGP is happy to announce a new resource for councils: “A Guide to Evaluating RFQs and Awarding Contracts under LGP Panels” This guide continues on from where our “Guide to Using LGP Contracts” finishes. Located in the Resource section of the LGP website lgp.org.au (top right from the home screen) Inside you will find information

Helpful Tips to Engage LGP Contracts on VendorPanel – Tip 4

Hello and welcome back to your VendorPanel guided tour. You may notice that VendorPanel is looking a little different after a recent update. Most items are in the same place – but if you are unsure, please get in touch or reach out to VendorPanel directly. I am a big fan of their inbuilt Help

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Hello and welcome back to your VendorPanel guided tour. You may notice that VendorPanel is looking a little different after a recent update. Most items are in the same place – but if you are unsure, please get in touch or reach out to VendorPanel directly. I am a big fan of their inbuilt Help

VendorPanel 101 – Tip 3

Hello again, can you believe it’s October already? A quick recap – by now you’ve got access to VendorPanel, logged in & are becoming comfortable with the portal. This month I wanted to explore the tab highlighted in red below – “Browse suppliers by category”. Clicking the link opens the below & you may be

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Hello again, can you believe it’s October already? A quick recap – by now you’ve got access to VendorPanel, logged in & are becoming comfortable with the portal. This month I wanted to explore the tab highlighted in red below – “Browse suppliers by category”. Clicking the link opens the below & you may be

VendorPanel 101 – Tip 2

When I shared with you the first tip of VendorPanel, we had just logged into the platform. Once you are in you should see a homepage that looks something like this: As you start looking around, you might notice that when you hover over anything in VendorPanel you’ll see a small text box that tells

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When I shared with you the first tip of VendorPanel, we had just logged into the platform. Once you are in you should see a homepage that looks something like this: As you start looking around, you might notice that when you hover over anything in VendorPanel you’ll see a small text box that tells

VendorPanel 101

Being at LGP for just over a month, I have learnt a lot about the VendorPanel platform in a very short space of time. Two things have become abundantly clear, once you get used to the software it is very easy to navigate & once you are set up in the system you can save

VendorPanel 101 Read More »

Being at LGP for just over a month, I have learnt a lot about the VendorPanel platform in a very short space of time. Two things have become abundantly clear, once you get used to the software it is very easy to navigate & once you are set up in the system you can save