Top Tips 27th November, 2024 How to Navigate Tender Portals Like An Expert Tender portals are an unavoidable part of the tender process, and they come in many different formats. Read More
Top Tips 20th November, 2024 How to Learn from Unsuccessful Tender Feedback Providing unsuccessful tender feedback to bidders is part of good procurement practice in the tendering process. So, if you’re in the position of having your tender marked as unsuccessful here’s what you need to d... Read More
Tender Writing & Bid Management 13th November, 2024 The Bid Writing Process Explained Our bid writing process has been developed over 15 years of industry experience and support in excess of 7,000 bid and tender submissions. Read More
Tender Writing & Bid Management 6th November, 2024 What is the Common Assessment Standard? Introduced as part of PPN 03/24, the Common Assessment Standard is becoming a normal part of pre-qualification in bidding. Read More
News & Insight 30th October, 2024 The Procurement Act 2023 – Explaining the Delay to Implementation Originally, this week marked the implementation or ‘go-live’ date to the Procurement Act 2023, introducing wide-sweeping changes to public sector bids and tenders. Read More
Tender Writing & Bid Management 23rd October, 2024 What is TUPE, and what does it mean when tendering? When reading the tender documents, bidders may ask themselves ‘what is TUPE’ and the purpose of the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006? Read More
Top Tips 16th October, 2024 Top Tips – Tender Preparation for an Important Submission We share our top tips on how tender preparation and pre-bid activity can maximise results for a high-quality, competitive bid. Read More
Tender Writing & Bid Management 9th October, 2024 Frequently Asked Questions – Bidding for NHS Tenders Since 2009, we have supported our clients on hundreds of NHS tenders, achieving key contract wins and allowing them to grow their business. Read More
Tender Writing & Bid Management 5th October, 2024 How to win a tender contract? Most businesses will encounter a time when they need to tender for a specific contract – it may be to expand and grow, or it may be to continue working with a certain purchasing organisation as the incumbent supplie... Read More
News & Insight 3rd October, 2024 Behind the Scenes: A Q&A with Six Bid Writers This week marks the two-year anniversary for six members of the Executive Compass team – one of the largest cohorts of the company to date. Read More
General 25th September, 2024 Stephen Murray: Journey from Bid Writer to Training Services Manager Stephen has been with the Executive Compass team for over five years and has held a few different roles in the business, until moving into the training services manager position at the end of 2023. We take a look at h... Read More
Tender Writing & Bid Management 18th September, 2024 Writing Your Organisation’s Carbon Reduction Plan A carbon reduction plan is now a mandatory requirement for central government bid and tender opportunities – most commonly, as part of the selection questionnaire. Read More