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Writing a tender-Myth Busters Winning business through tenders is common practice nowadays and there are lots of myths around the process of tender writing – but the reality is often a different story. MYTH: Companies will only ever choose the lowest bid In reality, price is important, of course, but organisations are usually looking for...

Tender Writing Specialists Following on from the last blog and discussing the most common issues that clients complain of when writing a tender. The last three items have been kept together deliberately because I believe that this is where a tender writing specialist can make a difference 3. Experience: They have never had to write a tend...

How to Write a Tender Writing a tender can be time consuming and difficult to manage. The day to day activities of running a business create competing priorities that sometimes mean that the tender you write is simply not as good as it can be. Here are the top five issues clients tell me about when writing a tender 1. Time: They simply d...

Writing a Tender for the Council Writing a tender for the council is not always the same as writing a tender for other public sector organisations. There are subtle differences between a tender for the council and a tender for the NHS. There are also differences in approach to services and products and how they are evaluated. However, most of t...

Public Sector Tenders The extract below is taken from the governments-Going for Growth:Our future prosperity. It is a very small piece from a document of some 5,000 words. However it does make the correct noises about ensuring that small businesses win a bigger share of public sector tenders. The trouble is of course it is written by buffoons...

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...