Tender Tip – Incumbent Suppliers, the importance of submitting a strong bid as an existing supplier.
Today’s ‘Tender Tip Tuesday’ is all about re-bidding for work as an incumbent supplier. It is vital that you dedicate the appropriate time ...
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Why Outsource? Focus on what you do best and outsource the rest!
This weeks blog is focused on outsourcing tenders. Many companies understandably prefer to complete their bids in-house, rather than outsourcing ...
What is a Variant Bid?
In some tender situations it may be possible for you to submit a VARIANT BID. What is a VARIANT BID and how can you use this to your advantage to ...
Award Writing – Our Essential Tips to Help you Write your Award Submission
Klick Business Solutions have won several awards over the last few years. Winning these awards has given us great publicity and has been vital to ...
Bid or No Bid?
The Importance of making effective Bid / No Bid Decisions Do you have a Bid Strategy? What is your strategy when looking at potential ...
What is a Framework Agreement? What are the benefits of getting onto a Framework Agreement?
It is estimated that up to 45% of procurement in the UK is based on framework agreements. A procurement framework is an agreement put in place ...
Complacency is a killer
Imagine losing a contract you have held for 90 years…. This is what has happened to the Met Office this week. The BBC announced last Friday ...
Target the right opportunities
Do you have a desk full of tenders/bids and your boss thinks you should bid for them all? Tendering isn’t like buying a lottery ticket every ...
Some basic rules for completing tenders
We must be explicit and comprehensive in our tender response as this will be the single source of information on which our tender response will ...
Top tips for tender writing
There’s an art to successful tender writing and this is what we specialise in, however if you are having a go yourself, heres a few tips ...
Quantify your achievements
When submitting a tender you have a captive audience with the buyer, if you have come through a PQQ process the buyer knows you are commercially ...