Blog - Page 17

Regardless of whether you are in a position to begin tendering, have tendered before, or are a new business beginning to build a portfolio, it is important that you lay strong foundations in order to write a tender. P...

Central to any successful submission is the effective tender management and planning of a bid, ensuring an on-time, fully compliant, and high-q...

The introduction of the Social Value Model for central government procurement is now starting to filter through into tenders. Here we provide a recap of what the model means for suppliers.

We have been providing bid writing services for a UK-wide fire and security specialist retained client since December 2020. So far, we have submitted over 40 tender submissions, ranging from small local contracts to l...

This guest blog post is from one of our quality managers and bid reviewer, John Winder, and looks at how our bid review process works. Reviewing responses produced by our team of professional bid writers, prior...

The decommissioning programme for the Sellafield nuclear complex in Cumbria will run for the next 100 years. To maximise opportunities for unlocking social value and meaningful change, four organisations who will help...

Currently, there are 1,095 security tenders and over 500 security firms within the UK. As a result, tendering for security contracts is highly competitive. Having completed hundreds of tenders for multiple security cl...

The health and social care sector is perennially subject to proposals for reform, revamp, overhaul, and rethink. This boundless appetite for change in the sector is explained by four key factors:

Well, why measure anything? There is an oft-quoted phrase from Peter Drucker’s book “The Practice of Management” which is “what gets measured gets managed”. The quote has a number of variants; “if you cann...

As she departed office in 2019, one of Theresa May’s last acts as prime minister was to legislate an amendment to the Climate Change Act 2008 which committed to reducing the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions to ‘net...

The policy note provides guidance to public sector authorities on implementing the National Procurement Policy Statement, which will require authorities to consider national strategic priorities when procuring, with t...

Many organisations view the tendering process as a ‘necessary evil’ that enables them to win contracts and deliver services on behalf of public sector organisations and private companies. In practice, it is a high...