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Companies entering the tender process as the incumbent are often surprised when they lose. They may have delivered a successful contract, but complacency on the second bid can lead…

Posted on 10-04-2014

When preparing to tender for a contract many companies simply wait for the document to be released before doing any work. To get the edge on your competition it…

The Ministry of Justice has announced the introduction of criminal legal aid funding cuts, which comes as bad news for legal aid practitioners. Minister for Justice, Chris Grayling, intends to…

As the UK’s leading bid management and writing company, we are often retained by multi-national organisations to work on very large bids with their existing bid team. The bid support…

It has been three months since I joined Executive Compass® as a bid writer and it’s time for an update on my progress. I joined the company after working as…

The tendering process that we use today may, to an outsider, seem baffling. Any bid writer will tell you about the looks of confusion that they have received when…

More and more companies are finding that the best way to grow their business is through submitting both public and private sector bids. Writing PQQs, bids and tenders is not…

Recent changes to the public sector procurement process are aiming to place even more emphasis on the quality sections of tenders. The move will see lower scores allocated to the…

It’s one thing to win a tender but it can become increasingly difficult to keep winning. When completing submissions there can be the temptation to simply copy and…

I’ve been working at Executive Compass for roughly one month now. This blog post is to give a bit of an update on how I’ve been getting on so…

For many bidders, the environmental section of a PQQ or tender document can invoke feelings of uncertainty and fear. Even organisations with ISO 14001 certification might start to sweat…