Manage the Bid Document
Every bid needs an owner.
Tips and advice on improving your bid process to reduce time input and produce higher quality and more effective bids.
Every bid needs an owner.
The way a document looks can be as important as the words it contains.
Routine proposals have often been developed to suit suppliers’ internal processes instead of the needs of their customers.
How often do you REALLY read what you have written?
When you are considering a partnership approach to tendering there are a number of different options available to you.
A robust bid management process will set internal deadlines for the submission of material. These may be for interim review or for final compilation.
When working on a storyboard, you should produce a comprehensive plan of what will be included in the final document.
Where you have multiple questions from the client, it is important you achieve a balance across your responses.
If you are recycling text between tenders you must ensure all traces of the previous customer are removed.
Some tender portals are reasonably effective but many are confusing and cumbersome to use. It is very easy to miss a document or overlook an instruction on screen and the results can be disastrous.