With Schools out for the summer, record temperatures predicted and holiday season on us, it can be challenging managing all the requests for leave whilst still meeting the needs of your business. Good news, we’re here all summer so if one of those challenges is completing...
We run a Tender Search Service on a daily basis for over 20 clients where we search for new tender opportunities against specific requirements for our clients. A daily report is then emailed over so you can make a decision on whether to proceed. If...
Over the past 5 weeks we have been looking at bid writing within different industries and how this impacts on the tender process. In our final week of this series, we are looking at completing bids in the complex area of technical industries, such as...
Every industry is different and with the constant pressures to be lean and keep staffing levels down to a minimum, finding the time and resources to complete bids can be challenging. We have put together a series of blogs on Bid Writing within different industries...
Falling at the last hurdle in any exercise is hard. You’ve invested time and money on the bid process only to find out you failed due to lack of a specific accreditation. All your competitors have it - even though they may not be as...
Our quick reference guide to the many abbreviations found in bid and tender documents. Everywhere you look there are abbreviations and terms for everything, in fact today’s children can almost have a whole conversation using abbreviations. Bid and Tender documents are no different, they use abbreviations...
“Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble.” Macbeth, William Shakespeare. As the nights draw in, it is spooky how things creep up on you, days are shorter, deadlines approach and you struggle to see the light. Although working on tenders can be scary...
What is it? It is a standardised selection questionnaire designed to help bidders speed up the selection stage of the procurement tender process. As part of the Europe 2020 strategy the ESPD standardisation process for tenders across Europe the ESPD was meant to open the market...
How External Bid Reviews can reduce stress and increase wins Without an effective bid review before submission, you aren’t just risking missing a couple of small typos, a review could make the difference between a win or a loss and an effective bid review process can...
Time. It's the subject pondered by many wise men and women through the ages. Some teach us to harness it, shape it and conquer it. We measure it – how many apps on our digital devices help us to track it? Most of us are...
