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Different Strokes for Different Folks
Although there are strong parallels between law and bid consulting, no two things are ever truly the same. Jack Lio reveals how his former law career has helped with his role as a bid consultant. He also suggests a few things his previous profession could learn from his current and often misunderstood one.
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A lesson on trust from my grandmother
Many underestimate the important role trust plays in the tendering process. But what does trust really mean and how can we build it? Weaving a personal tale and recent HBR research, Rob Cook explores the three drivers of trust and shows how they can be used as a work winning checklist across different levels of the tendering process.
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Time Zone Challenges – Can They Actually Benefit Proposal Staff?
In one of 20 international contributions to this edition of Bidding Quarterly, arranged around the theme of Father Time, Nigel Dennis explores the challenges posed when working across multiple time zones, offering a number of practical suggestions to protect staff well-being – a very important topic given the upheaval of the last 18 months.
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A Pragmatist’s View on Executive Summaries
It’s ironic that executive summaries are one of the first items read by tender evaluators. Yet contrary to best practice guidance, we often find that it’s one of the last submission items written. David Lunn explores the interplay between theory and practice, offering a number of practical solutions to ensure that your next executive summary is as effective as possible.
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Tender and Proposal Management: What does post COVID-19 promise?
As 2021 gets underway, it’s a good time to consider what to expect for those who rely on winning work through the competitive sourcing process. In our latest contribution to Barrett’s 12th Sales Trends publication, David Lunn explores procurement led changes accelerated by COVID-19 and what bidding professionals should stop, start and keep doing in response.
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Scribble Talk with Nigel Dennis – Podcast hosted by Baskar Sundaram
BidWrite Director Nigel Dennis joins Baskar Sundaram on Scribble Talk, one of the UK’s leading proposal podcasts.
In this intimate interview, Nigel shares his story of being a young engineer in the Royal Australian Air Force, to becoming the most qualified proposal practitioner in Australia.
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Are you looking through the same lens as your buyer?
There are several strategic procurement challenges that have arisen from Covid-19.
BidWrite Director David Lunn explores the practical implications these imperatives have for sellers, arguing that successful buyer-seller relationships are founded on greater understanding, clarity and openness from ‘both sides’.
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When Times Get Tough, the Tough Get Tendering
Well-performing businesses are now directing any spare capacity to researching upcoming opportunities, positioning their brand and improving bidding capabilities.
BidWrite’s co-founders share their views on practical strategies sellers can use to enable them to win, be ready to win, or retain more contracts when times are tough.
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What to Expect When Times Get Tough…
With the current health crisis creating economic uncertainty, it can be difficult for businesses to know what that means for current contracts and planned procurement.
BidWrite’s co-founders share their views on what to expect from buying organisations during these uncertain times, and the implications such behaviours have for contractors and suppliers.
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Ten Tendering Trends for the 2020s: Reflections on a decade of change
BidWrite Directors Nigel Dennis shares his reflections on how much the tendering landscape has changed over the past decade – and to look at what trends we are likely to see as the new decade unfolds.
From painful printing to proficient portals, reactive responses to proactive capture; bidding certainly looks very different from where it was in 2010.
