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As this article shows, the need for high quality PQQ and tender documents will become even more important in the coming months. Public sector work could potentially begin to contract meaning that competition will increase even more. Only those companies that reflect a professional and competent image will succeed. Cash-strapped building companie...

Bids and Tenders Bids are being invited for the latest stage of a multi-million pound project to upgrade the A9. The Scottish Government has issued the tender notice for work to deliver an additional length of dual carriageway north of Crubenmore. In November, a 39-year-old woman and a 64-year-old man died after a three-car crash on this...

PQQ for the Construction Industry The National Federation of Builders has put a single pre-qualification questionnaire (PQQ) for construction procurement at the heart of its 2010 election manifesto. The NFB, which represents 1,500 construction SMEs, said that its 2009 public sector procurement survey showed that on average the PQQ process cos...

Railway Bids Oman has invited two separate bids for the project management and design work for its 500km long railway project, tender board officials said on Sunday. More on Writing Bids and Tenders "The national railway project invites international companies to bid for project management and design works," a tender board of...

Bids and Tenders are costly THE state government allowed Sydney Ferries to continue to operate harbour services despite a tender process finding the quality of its bid to remain in public hands scored just 56 points out of 100 - and that it was inferior to two other private sector bids. More information on our bid services The Herald has confi...

I follow the activities of the highway and street lighting PFI tenders with interest. They always seem to have far more problems that the other PFI but perhaps they just do not cover them up as well as the others? I will soon have another street lighting PFI to ponder as Durham and Stockton are about to embark down that road. The North Ea...

PQQ on  the Rails FIVE companies have confirmed their interest in competing for the contract to build the first railway line in the Borders for more than 40 years. More info on PQQ Transport Scotland revealed it was now in the process of drawing up a shortlist of just three firms to fund, build and operate the line between Tweedbank and E...

Construction Pre Qualification   More information on Construction PQQ The British Standards Institution (BSI) has launched a one-month consultation on pre-qualification in construction. PAS 91: 2010 – Core criteria for pre-qualification in construction tendering – Selection, presentation and application is sponsored by the ...

Need a Bid Writer? I am constantly amazed by the diverse range of bids and tenders that I am asked to write. Everything from child care and dentists to locksmiths and major construction or service projects. It makes life interesting, you never know what bid or tender request will come through the e-mail ether next. It is of course challen...

For assistance or more information for all ICT PQQ bid and tender writing click here A new study of spending on information and communications technology in Scotland has disclosed the annual spend on computer systems and consultancy IT by the public sector has doubled over the last decade, from £800 million in 1998 to a total of £1...