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Below are the latest updates, bid news and resources online we have found to help you win work.
8 Ways We Bring Value as Tender Writing Consultants
When you think of tender writing consultants, you may think of it purely as a writing skill. These are people who have the skills and experience to write a compelling tender response with the information about your business that you provide. While it’s true, we do...
Contract Bidding – How to Get Started with Public Sector Tenders
As face-to-face networking has started up again, we’ve been visiting more groups to introduce Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) owners to the idea of contract bidding. While some are aware that it’s possible to win these public sector contracts, for many it’s seen as...
What is a Consortium Bid?
Have you ever come across a tender opportunity and thought, ‘We can only do part of that but I know a company that could deliver the rest?’ It is situations like that which call for consortium bids. When two or more companies come together to create a joint solution...
How to Write a Bid Compliance Matrix
There’s no doubt that there is a lot of paperwork involved with even the simplest tender. One way to make sure that you have covered all the points that you need to is to write a bid compliance matrix. You don’t need any special tools to create one of these, a...
Winning Health & Social Care Tenders with Your CQC Report
Your latest Care Quality Commission (CQC) report is a valuable tool for winning health & social care tenders. Whether your last report saw you getting that vaunted green star for some or all categories, or identified some issues for you to work on, what is in that...
How to Answer Tender Evaluation Questions
Tenders are evaluated two ways - price and quality. For many SMEs, price is the most straightforward of these two, but answering the quality questions or writing method statements is a bit more challenging. It’s a communication issue; the tender evaluation questions...
PPN 06/21 – Net Zero and Public Procurement
Back in 2019, the Government amended the Climate Change Act (2008) to include a target of at least 100% reduction in the net UK carbon account by 2050 – also known as the Net Zero target. One of the ways in which the government can reach that target is by ensuring...
Challenging a Tender Decision
Have you ever considered challenging a tender decision? It’s your right to do so if you believe that you have a cause to question the outcome. In this blog, we’ll be looking at the legalities of making a challenge, and when you should consider doing so. The Legalities...
How Running Quality Apprenticeships Can Win You Tenders
Ensuring that you deliver high-quality apprenticeships is important. It makes sense for you as a business to ensure that your apprentices get well trained and integrated into the company so that they go on to have a career with you. It also makes sense in terms of...