Tender Writing & Bid Management - Page 7

Nearly every Standard Selection Questionnaire (SSQ) features a health and safety section. As with all other sections of an SSQ, it is important to give these questions full attention, as a failure to answer them prope...

When answering questions on quality in a tender, it is easy to list what quality assurance measures you have without addressing what the question is asking. Often evaluators want to know how your approach ensures qual...

Quite frequently, you will be asked to answer resource-based questions as part of the tendering process. For example: ‘Provide details of how you will resource the service’ or ‘Please provide details to assure t...

Simply put, electronic tendering or ‘e-tendering’ is where the procurement process is conducted online using a procurement platform. It provides bidders with a streamlined process, enabling them to access document...

Whether your submission was successful or not, requesting feedback from the buyer/authority is essential. In this blog, we explain why requesting it is important, how to undertake a post-submission review and how to a...

When submitting a response to an invitation to tender for an opportunity that you feel your organisation can deliver (or are currently delivering), it is vital to consider the way in which your bid will be evaluated. ...

You have identified an opportunity suitable for your organisation. However, the short notice deadline is prohibitive – not a problem! We explain below how Executive Compass’s experience, size and expertise can be ...

In short, yes. In public sector procurement, bidders can withdraw their tender submission at any point between submitting their bid and contract award. There are a multitude of reasons a bidder may need to withdraw, a...

It is common for the quality submission of the tender to ask challenging questions that could reflect badly on the bidder’s ability to service the contract or meet the authorities’ requirements. These questions ca...

Throughout the bid management process, following bid writing best practice will increase your chances of success when completing PQQs (pre-qual...

Best practice information and bid libraries can be used as a foundation to build upon. However, it is essential that they are then tailored, adapted, and added to reflect the buyer’s requirements. We explain below h...

Our clients often want to submit vague, non-committal quality responses to cover tender areas that they may not be confident with such as mobilisation, or which they have not entirely thought out. In our experience, t...