You’re busy addressing others’ priorities, but what about your own? In the bidding world, we spend our time helping others to achieve their goals – e.g. a bid writer supporting her / his client to prepare a winning bid so that the organisation can deliver products and / or services to enable the end client […]
Category: Bidding
Preparing For Your Bid Presentations in 2018
An important part of the bidding process is the step after you submit your knock-out tender, when you deliver your post-tender presentation. This is when your client’s decision makers will be even more convinced of your credibility for the job, or left with doubt about how realistic your tender promises were. When preparing presentations to […]
Show Your Public Sector Client That Your Bid’s The Best
The rock and the hard place for the procurement team Public sector procurement teams find themselves in the difficult position of having to balance economic austerity and the ever-increasing wave of outsourced services. While fidgeting for comfort in that usually uncomfortable place, they have to deliver strategies founded on increasing value for money and quality, […]
Make Bid Assessment Easier for Your Clients
The woes of an overloaded bid assessor “Some poor soul has to read all this!” We’ve heard that – and more colourful versions – said by members of bid teams several times over the years, referring to the numerous pages of documents submitted to clients. If a writer perceives a reader as having to ‘wade’ […]
Writing Concisely In 2015
Less is more Happy new year, everyone! We’re now well and truly ‘in the swing’ of 2015 and I’ve seen the expected wave of new year’s resolutions from people determined to lose weight, stop smoking, eat less unhealthy food and various other excellent changes aimed at achieving admirable goals. The issue with saying we want […]
How Do You Overcome Writing Inertia When You’re Faced With Producing A Bid Submission?
We’ve all been there You know the situation: you have a bid to write, or at least a section of the bid at that moment, and you’re struggling to know what to write and how best to get your messages across. This is a scenario that we hear about frequently. What’s the magic solution? Jump-starting […]