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For many companies, the key to new business and expansion is through competitive tendering for public or private sector contracts.

Earlier this year we launched our sister company, The Social Value Practice, and we are pleased to announce that we are now taking bookings for social value training.

The government has announced that organisations seeking to secure public sector work must set out how they will also deliver social value priorities. The new measure was announced on 24 September 2020, and comes into ...

From 1 January 2021, the UK will need to access a new portal to receive all public sector procurement information and e-notifications.

There are many different types of contracts within the public sector. Most contracts are single supplier and therefore the procurement process will exclude all but one. However, many framework agreements exist for buy...

Creative tenders cover a range of services such as merchandising, marketing and filmography, to name just a few. While suppliers in other sectors may predominantly bid for places on frameworks, suppliers of creative s...

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…