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If you have a successful in-house bid team you might question the need for training, but even the best bid team can always improve.

It has been a busy year in the Executive Compass office. It's one year on since we relocated to a larger office space to deal with expansion and new services, and we reflect on the past year and provide a summary of w...

This week Fusion21 have announced the new £800m construction works and improvements framework, designed to cover capital works for a range of different sectors, including housing, education and healthcare.

The 1st of December is nearly here, which means it will officially be the run-up to Christmas and the festive period. We look at Executive Compass’s plans and how procurement cycles look around the Christmas break. ...

Your first glance at a PQQ or tender can often leave you overwhelmed, and wondering “Where do I begin!?” There are, however, a number of steps you can take…

Earlier this year we opened our first Scottish office, based in Glasgow, in response to the continued growth of our client base throughout Scotland.

One of the questions we are asked most regularly by new clients is how an external bid writing firm can complete a high-quality tender bid for a new company. That they can't is a myth we are keen to dispel in the bid ...

Crown Commercial Services (CCS) have established a new health sector resourcing framework, due to go out to tender mid November 2018. We discuss the outline of the framework, how the lots are structured and what you c...

In this week’s blog post we take a look at one of our current tender submissions to provide a mini case study discussing the challenges and complicated nature of the bid.

The majority of the bids we are involved in are conducted online via an e-tendering process. This allows the buyer to publish an opportunity online and ask all interested suppliers to submit their bid via an online po...

As a bid writing firm we are exposed to a lot of tender submissions, but also to a lot of companies, and therefore know what it takes to be successful when tendering. We have put together our top four tips on how to b...

When bidding for contracts there are two main types of procedure: restricted and open, also known as the one- and two-stage processes. We discuss the move in the bidding world to the 'one-stage process' and the pros a...