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A diverse range of tender documents of differing sizes and complexities pass across our desks each month at Executive Compass. This latest case study gives you an insight into the challenges you might face.

Without doubt, the COVID-19 pandemic has affected every company in the UK and in many cases has fundamentally changed the way we do business. However, the ability of so many to find new ways to work is testament to th...

An update from our MD

Any experienced bidder will be well-versed in describing their business continuity measures to public-sector buyers. With the COVID-19 pandemic, concepts that were previously hypothetical ‘worst-case scenarios’ â€...

A trawl through Contracts Finder shows that COVID-19 is, unsurprisingly, impacting public sector tendering activity. However, with tenders not yet dropping off a cliff, and only a 30% fall in published notices in the ...

Don’t be fooled by the marketing hype of our competitors; tendering opportunities have dried up. COVID-19 has hit at the traditionally quiet time of Easter and, combined with the…

The Cabinet Office has recently issued a policy note which may be relevant to you and your business, as a supplier into the public sector. It is directed at public bodies, however we wanted to ensure our clients were ...

An Invitation to Tender or ITT is a formal document issued by a procurement authority which outlines the scope of a project and invites organisations to submit a formal tender to bid for the work.

As commercially focused individuals, a bid manager holds the capability to understand all requirements in relation to the purchasing process. Their core role is to manage and lead the writing of a bid.

The Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) is the online journal or web portal that publishes all public sector contract opportunities over a certain threshold.

The European Single Procurement Document (ESPD) is a standardised form which acts as a self-declaration form at the initial selection stage, for firms tendering for contracts. It is for use by all European Union membe...

In public-sector procurement (and a lot of the private sector), tendering is used as a fair and transparent way to select a suitable supplier to deliver a certain contract based on a set criteria that do not favour on...