Continuing our series on looking at different industries that required our bid writing and review services, and the stumbling blocks that can be found when producing tenders for them. This week we are looking at the tender process when the buyer is looking to procure...
Whilst the idea of submitting bids sounds great and you feel confident to do so, or you have submitted a number of bids with low success rates and you’re not sure why? Have you established if your business is ready to bid? We have put together...
Get Bid Fit Having decided that it’s a Yes to the bid, you need to set about producing the tender documents. In the same way you have to be fit to win a marathon, your business needs to be bid fit to win a tender. It is...
Bid writing is a time consuming task so you need to be sure you’re not wasting your time in completing the wrong bids. Taking the time to review the documents and criteria when you get them and ensuring the bid is one you could win...
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...
When writing your tender, there are elements which are like going back to education and sitting exams/submitting coursework - you need to remember to look at and use the mark scheme. The mark scheme sets out in more detail what the Client is looking for,...
SMEs can do more to help themselves win bids In a lot of self-help books and fluffy Instagram memes, much advice given is about asking the right questions. Our blog reveals how this holds true in preparing for bids or tenders Here’s our top tendering tips for...
There are always answers. We just have to be smart enough to ask the right questions. In this Guide to Bid Auditing, we reveal 15 questions we should ask of ourselves. Your answers will determine the bid outcomes that you will experience. Preparing for a successful bid...
How to prepare a comprehensive Bid Library Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is ‘timing’ - judging the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way. And so it is with creating your bid and tender...
A gap in skills and abilities reveal a golden opportunity for your business We are taught that mastery lies on an infinite continuum. As a result, we will never ‘reach the end’. But we can, though, see to it that we are as far along that...
