Antonin Nikolaevich Dolohov (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
alt_antonin) wrote2014-12-10 06:35 pm
alt_antonin) wrote2014-12-10 06:35 pm
Private message to Poppy
If you have a chance, can you let me know which ingredients in this infirmary-supplies ledger absolutely must come from a particular supplier? (Not prepared potions -- those I know are non-substitutable -- but I'm sure there are individual ingredients that certain houses do better than others.) Likewise, if there are any houses that have been unable to fill your orders in the past, or have provided substandard ingredients and ought not be trusted.
Earlier in the month I caught an irregularity in what one of the NL apothecary providers was charging us for restocking the Potions storehouse before term began, and further poking into the matter shows that between the infirmary, the Potions programme, and the Herbology greenhouses, we're using nine different suppliers under fourteen different contracts, the terms of which vary wildly from "favourable" to "laughably bad". I can undoubtedly save us a not-inconsiderable amount of Galleons by switching us over to another distributor next year, or switching to growing more in-house. I'll be putting the contract out for tender as a starting place to see what sort of nibbles we get, but you will know more than I about who should not be trusted with the bid.
Earlier in the month I caught an irregularity in what one of the NL apothecary providers was charging us for restocking the Potions storehouse before term began, and further poking into the matter shows that between the infirmary, the Potions programme, and the Herbology greenhouses, we're using nine different suppliers under fourteen different contracts, the terms of which vary wildly from "favourable" to "laughably bad". I can undoubtedly save us a not-inconsiderable amount of Galleons by switching us over to another distributor next year, or switching to growing more in-house. I'll be putting the contract out for tender as a starting place to see what sort of nibbles we get, but you will know more than I about who should not be trusted with the bid.