Top Tips

We share our top tips on how tender preparation and pre-bid activity can maximise results for a high-quality, competitive bid.

Although not a part of formal tender evaluation, bid formatting is a critical element of your tender submission, ensuring a clean, professional document which makes a positive impression on evaluators.

Even experienced bid and tender writers will occasionally find themselves in a race against the clock to submit that all-important bid. However, this is not a sustainable bidding strategy or advisable method for tende...

Prior to submitting a bid, you should always schedule in adequate time to review your tender and ensure it is reflective of the time, effort and resource required to create the submission.

A ‘disqualified tender’ means that your tender was not subject to the evaluation process based on a compliance failure. Receiving feedback on a disqualified tender can support the improvement of your organisationâ...

In the past, hard copy tender submissions meant that you were unable or restricted in submitting clarification questions to purchasing authorities, as it would result in an unfair competitive advantage.

Apart from the quality submission, the selection questionnaire and pricing schedules, government tenders will often require you to submit appendices as part of a compliant bid. This allows buyers to gain a more compre...

In tendering, purchasing authorities will usually set word, character or page limits to ensure relevant, concise and practicable responses. This also manages administrative burden on the buyer’s resources during the...

A decade on from the introduction of The Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012, more purchasing authorities are integrating social value as part of the quality element of the ITT, with sub-weightings ranging between...

Public sector procurement is an effective means of establishing and developing a pipeline of work at an agreed rate, supporting your organisation’s financial stability. Since they can be so valuable, construction te...

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...