Blog - Page 15

In short, yes. In public sector procurement, bidders can withdraw their tender submission at any point between submitting their bid and contract award. There are a multitude of reasons a bidder may need to withdraw, a...

As Pride Month 2022 comes to a close, ensuring LGBTQIA+ employees (alongside individuals possessing other protected characteristics) are represented and satisfied in the workplace has never been more crucial.

On the 11th of May 2022, the House of Lords was addressed with the first reading of the Procurement Bill – introducing drastic changes to the landscape of public sector procurement. The bill replaces 350 EU laws wit...

It is common for the quality submission of the tender to ask challenging questions that could reflect badly on the bidder’s ability to service the contract or meet the authorities’ requirements. These questions ca...

Throughout the bid management process, following bid writing best practice will increase your chances of success when completing PQQs (pre-qual...

Best practice information and bid libraries can be used as a foundation to build upon. However, it is essential that they are then tailored, adapted, and added to reflect the buyer’s requirements. We explain below h...

Winning PQQs/SQs or tender submissions is a time-consuming intensive process, with bid writing services (both internal or external resources) required to consistently provide high-quality submissions, bespoke to the b...

A trap bidders often fall into, particularly when completing submissions en masse is to use generic wide-sweeping statements (or full responses) meaning that by default you are not answering the question in its entire...

Our clients often want to submit vague, non-committal quality responses to cover tender areas that they may not be confident with such as mobilisation, or which they have not entirely thought out. In our experience, t...

We take a look at how to maintain quality and consistency when undertaking a collaborative tender writing process.

NHS organisations are now required to take social value into account when procuring goods and services. We take a look at the latest procurement guidance to see what insights it has to offer.

Drawn up in response to the Grenfell Tower fire tragedy in which 72 people lost their lives, the much anticipated Building Safety Act passed into legislation last month, gaining Royal Assent nine months after its firs...