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This week's blog post is from bid writer Joel, focusing on a very prevalent topic...

It is just over a year since Greta Thunberg first stood outside Swedish parliament with a homemade placard bearing the words “Skolstrejk för klimatet”: school strike for the climate.

Last week saw us celebrate our ten-year anniversary with colleagues, friends and family at a small get together. We’re proud to be celebrating the ten-year mark and to be one of the largest bid writing firms in the UK – testament to our effective tender writing processes and success rates.

It has been reported that 18 large firms have been suspended today from the Prompt Payment Code, for failing to pay suppliers on time.

Public bodies have a duty to consider the impact on local communities when procuring goods and services. Broadly speaking, their aim is to allocate finite funds and resources in a way that maximises the benefit to people, the environment and the economy at local level.

The success of our graduate training programme attracted attention in the press last month. We take a further look at our graduate training programme and how it is contributing to the success of the company as we celebrate our 10 years in business.

Recently in the press there has been plenty of controversy over the Department for Transport’s decision to award DFDS, Brittany Ferries and Seaborne Freight three ferry contracts to provide additional shipping capacity in a no-deal Brexit. This was later found to have been awarded in a ‘secretive’ deal with no OJEU tender process, which has been the subject of a lot of scrutiny.