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 Why you should research your competitors before tender writing It is usually inevitable that when you start putting pen to paper to write your tender or you finalise details with your outsourced tender writer, you concentrate only on your offering and your chances of winning the bid. Whilst this is understandable and is unlikely to lose ...

 Driving down costs with effective Bid Management If your organisation depends upon winning contracts through the bid and tender process, you will already be fully aware that it is an expensive and time consuming. For many companies, plunging time and company resources into each tender process involves a high cost, often with no return other ...

 Tender Writing: How to avoid the last minute rush Tender writing is not easy. No matter how you approach it, there is no escaping the fact that the tender writing process takes time and application, and can use up an awful lot of resource. It requires you to know what you are doing, and to have a writer that can present all the detail...

Tender writing is going to the dogs I wonder what lucky chap will get this job? It made me smile when I thought about the quality assurance and environmental management questions, not to mention the added value/community benefit question. Read it and weep (with laughter) Applications are invited from suitably qualified and experienced se...

Constructive methods for writing winning tenders Letters of regret hit the doormat somewhat harder than letters informing you your organisation has been successful in a tendering process. It can be hard to stay optimistic when you’ve invested time, considerable resource and finances into writing a tender, or even writing multiple tenders...

PQQ and Tender Writing for an e-reader Will future PQQ and tenders be delivered to e-readers? I received a Kindle for Christmas. It was a pleasant surprise, because although I am an avid reader, I do like the look, feel and smell of a book, and thought that much would be lost by using an electronic device. There is huge enjoyment to be gained fr...

Writing a Tender for Evaluation When you write a tender, how do you know that you are writing what the evaluator wants to see? Well, writing a tender, especially for a framework agreement or similar, is a little like sitting an examination at school. You need to undertake quite a lot of research before you even begin to write your tender or t...

Organising your PQQ and Tender submission I have been contacted by a number of companies over the last few months saying that they failed to progress beyond the PQQ stage. That’s not so unusual, but the reasons are! They all failed to include important appendices or supporting information, and so were excluded at the initial sift. The w...

Quick Turnaround for PQQ and Tenders For companies that are weighed down by the cost of in-house PQQ, Bid, and Tender writing, Executive Compass offers outsourcing of these services at a reasonable cost and very high satisfaction. Many companies are struggling with the costs of getting high quality PQQ, bid, and tender writing. Hiring in-hou...

In the mood to write a tender Some people forget just how diverse the world of PQQ and tenders actually is. This news items provides a clue as to the range of subjects that good tender writers need to know about. Mood Media has won a nationwide contract to provide An Post, Ireland’s national postal service provider, with in-store visual a...