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Writing a Tender Writing a tender with a looming deadline and no resources can appear a little daunting. Time pressure, tricky questions and a business to run can mean that you are submitting sub standard tenders and missing out on valuable projects. The first piece of help with writing a tender I can give you is...do not panic. Unless yo...

How to Tender How to tender or perhaps this should be called to tender or not to tender, that is the question! There is no great mystery to writing a tender. You know your business inside out, you know that you can deliver the work, you have all the processes in place so all you have to do is write the tender and describe what you do and how yo...

Bid Writing Training We offer bid writing training to a wide variety of SME organisations across the UK. The advantages of Bid writing training are clear • You can learn how the bid process works • Training means you can write your own bids • You will be able to make better more informed decisions on who to hire to ...

Tender Writing Firms   As a tender writing company we take some unusual calls. We receive the usual: “How much for a tender?” and “how long will it take to write my tender?” Both questions are usually asked before we have seen the tender and while it is tempting to provide a flippant response we can understand why peo...

Completing an Invitation to Tender   We complete Invitation to Tender Documents for clients every day. The format design, content and complexity vary hugely and we have completed some invitation to tender that merely require four pages, others run to several hundred pages with multiple appendices. This is to be expected, different industri...

PQQ Consultants We have a variety of PQQ consultants who work across a wide range of industries. Our PQQ consultants are all highly experienced business writers, commercially aware and able to create a winning PQQ. We know that there are some PQQ consultants who charge low day rates, supply “copy and paste” text and do not real...

Invitation to Tender We complete Invitation to Tender Documents for clients every day. The format design, content and complexity vary hugely and we have completed some invitation to tender that merely require four pages, others run to several hundred pages with multiple appendices. This is to be expected, different industries traditionally...

Bid and Tender Interviews and Presentations So you have written the expression of interest, the PQQ and the invitation to tender. Guess what? It’s time to provide a presentation. The route to presentation does vary as does the type of presentation that can be delivered. More often you will only be asked to provide a presentation if y...

Writing  Public Sector Tenders As I have previously written the public sector in the UK spends in excess of £220 billion annually on goods and services. The availability of this amount of money is a major benefit on offer to suppliers who work for organisations in the public sector. There are however advantages and disadvantages of...

Bid Writing Being Strategic!   Too many bid writing companies treat it as a mechanical process, an operational function that is “to do”. Bid writing is not like that, it should be strategic and well thought out long before you boot up the laptop! Here are ten tips strategic tips to help you write better bids and improve your...