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At the end of 2016, I took the NEBOSH National General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety. This had two objectives: developing my knowledge and understanding of workplace health and safety, and enhancing my...

With a freshly downloaded pack of tender documents on your desktop, and the pristine, untouched ITT response document sitting in front of you, it can often feel as if…

When you are writing a tender, it is natural to focus on completing the SQ, the quality questions, and your financial submission. But have you ever considered any of the small print clauses within the tender documents...

Deciding whether to bid for a contract is a dilemma faced by many companies. So, when the scoring criteria is heavily weighted on price, does it simply come down to how sharp your pencil is?

Nobody knows your company like you do. But nobody knows the tendering process like Executive Compass. In our latest blog post we take a look at Bid Writer Elliott's recent visits to health and social care clients, to ...

Picture the scene: the responses for your bid submission have been written, quality assured and approved. All that remains is to draw together the attachments and supporting documents and then it can be despatched, wh...

After an interesting 2016, we have reached the New Year: time for a New Year’s resolution (even if you do drop it very quickly), alongside that age-old commitment to detox and go to the gym more often! For many busi...

2016 has been an exciting year for the Executive Compass team. We have provided a short recap of our year and an insight into what our team has been up to.

As a bid writing firm, naturally, we write a great deal on a daily basis. Just for fun, we recently decided to look at our team’s yearly output and what this equates to — you may be quite surprised (we were!).

The Apprenticeship Levy will be introduced to the UK on 6 April 2017.

When bidding for a public sector contract it is all but mandatory to submit an electronic copy of your tender – an e-tender.

If you have recently tendered for a public sector contract, you will have noticed some changes in the first round of the process. The pre-qualification questionnaire (PQQ) phase has now been replaced by a new prelimin...