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The public sector are actively encouraging SMEs to bid for contracts. Self-certification, framework agreements, value bands and lower thresholds are all steps that have been introduced by the government to extend cont...

When starting to bid for public sector contracts, or indeed when looking to increase your portfolio as a supplier, framework agreements can be a good place to start.

As we have discussed in a recent blog post, the Government’s Cyber Essentials initiative is a fundamental strategy to tackle poor cyber security, and one in which the UK Government has invested millions of pounds.

In early July, we posted a blog giving an insight into bid writing and the not-so-average tender submission. The blog was based on our experiences of reading more than 10,000 unique ITTs, PQQs, and selection questionn...

Writing a bid for the first time can seem like a daunting task, however following a few simple rules can increase your chances of success and keep your stress levels in check.

Procurement is neither science nor an art, instead opting to present itself as a hybrid of the two, combining compliance and innovation in equal measure. Mix that with a hint of quality management, a smattering of env...

The winning contractors for the first phase of building works for the HS2 highspeed railway between London and Birmingham have been announced by the Government this week. Balfour Beatty, Kier and Carillion are the big...

Bid writing can be a time consuming and complex process which takes a certain skill set. We can help you acquire those skills: we provide training for all competency levels and industry sectors to provide your bid tea...

Here at Executive Compass, as you would expect from one of the UK’s leading bid writing specialists, we get to see many different tender documents from a wide variety of industries and sectors. At the time of writin...

Tender submissions can vary significantly depending on whether they are for the private or the public sector. Broadly speaking, the public sector has certain criteria which it has to evaluate suppliers on, whereas the...

Toblerones are smaller in size, Walker and Nescafé have increased their prices, and a third of UK businesses are drawing up plans to avoid post-Brexit tariffs. Brexit is a common concern in the procurement market, an...

Very rarely are two invitations to tender exactly the same. That is why you, the bidder, need to respond to the specification in front of you, and not one you would like to see, or one you have seen before.