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Left-shifting your way to revenue growth – Part 1

BidWrite’s GM Growth Peter Blunden explains how companies who adopt a left-shifting and customer-centric approach to tendering will reap substantial rewards – smarter investments, a strategically aligned pipeline of opportunities, an engaged and focused workforce, and of course, significant revenue growth.

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Can generative AI imitate ‘soul’?

While writing his father-of-the-bride speech recently, Principal Consultant Mark Riley also asked ChatGPT to write a version based on his prompts. But can a generative AI tool even begin to replicate the insight, context, emotion and soul of Mark’s own heartfelt speech? Or will humans and technology always need to work together for the best result?

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The Bid That Wouldn’t Die: A Tendering Horror Story

Spooky season is upon us, and in the spirit of Halloween, we thought it’d be a bit of fun to ponder the dark side of bidding. Written by Bid Consultant and Halloween-fanatic Zoe Simpson, this tendering horror story is a fictitious, highly dramatized example of when everything that can go wrong, does go wrong during a bid.

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Partnerships

BidWrite and GPTStrategic Announce Groundbreaking Partnership to Transform Tender Writing with Generative AI Technology

BidWrite has announced a multi-year, multi-million-dollar partnership with GPTStrategic, a Microsoft award winning and fast-growing technology company based in Melbourne. Together we’ll develop an innovative, generative, AI-powered closed-source platform that incorporates specialised tender writing algorithms to streamline the bidding process.

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Sorry senator: ‘inappropriately’ influencing your customers with power maps gives your tenders the winning edge.

After reading an article where a Labor party senator described ‘power maps’ as an attempt to “inappropriately influence the public service” during the tender process, Natalie Schroeder and Nigel Dennis explain why stakeholder mapping is actually a logical part of the standard pre-tender ‘positioning’ process – essential to building strong relationships and preparing persuasive bids.

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Tips

How a bid library can increase your win rate and lower your tendering costs

Using an effective bid library saves time and effort, creates efficiency, increases your tender win rate and lowers costs. In this blog, Senior Bid Consultant Elodie Janvier explains a bid library’s wide-reaching benefits, the building blocks needed to create one, and how to make sure it’s simple and usable.

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News

Happy Birthday BidWrite! Embracing fifteen years of tendering evolution.

August 2023 marks fifteen years since the BidWrite business was born. Co-Founders David Lunn and Nigel Dennis take a look back and reflect not only on how BidWrite has grown, but also how the tendering industry itself has evolved, the changes they’ve embraced along the way, and what’s coming next.

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