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Ever wondered how procurement teams assess your financials when making shortlisting and final contract award decisions? In this guest blog, Shavantha Mallawa of CreditSource explains ten financial signals prioritised by procurement teams, why they matter and practical recommendations to manage them better.

Bid writing is a profession that's vital to winning and retaining business. But a unique, specialised skill set is critical in this important role. In this blog, we dive into its key differences and how you can become a bid writer yourself.

In one of 24 international articles contributed to Bidding Quarterly Issue 18, Nigel Dennis provides a systematic approach to creating better customer focus and developing compelling, relevant and impactful tender responses with just four letters - ISBP®

Setting an aspirational mindset and culture creates expectations, encourages action and aligns a workforce. But what then? In part 2 of 2, Peter Blunden looks deeper into how a left-shifted focus, aligned with your organisation's bidding function, leads to sustained business success.

BidWrite excitedly announces our latest strategic partnership with Defence industry specialists De Stefano & Co, helping clients enter, navigate, and win work in the Defence sector. To celebrate, we co-hosted and recorded a collaborative webinar, titled ‘How to Win & Work in Defence’.

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.

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

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

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.