Essential Skills for Writing Bids and Tenders
 
Essential Skills for Writing Bids and Tenders
Gaining competitive advantage

Date: Thursday, 12 December 2013
 Time: 2pm - 3pm


Overview:
As the contract environment becomes ever more competitive, it is critical that if organisations have the expertise that set them apart from other competitors, such information is clearly and accurately reflected.

Completing the volume of paperwork that often accompanies the bid/tendering process can be daunting and sometimes confusing. Sadly failure to comply with the requirements can lead to ineligible applications. Essential skills for writing bids and tenders focus on the practicalities of bid and tender writing with the aim of assisting provider staff to navigate their way through the complexities of producing an excellent tender response.

This webinar is designed to help provider staff improve their understanding of the current bidding and tendering environment and improve their ability to submit quality submissions supporting employability and workplace learning.

Objectives:
Essential skills for writing bids and tenders focuses on the practicalities of bid and tender writing with the aim of assisting provider staff to navigate their way through the complexities of producing an excellent tender response. The specific objectives are to enable participants to:
  • Understand the range and purpose of the information to tender (ITT) documentation
  • Analyse typical tender questions and consider appropriate content of responses
  • Demonstrate how responses to the tender evaluation/assessment criteria can influence the success of the application
On conclusion of this webinar, participants should be better equipped to:
  • Plan and resource the response to a tendering exercise
  • Scope existing delivery for performance and innovation in line with the tender specification
  • Appreciate how to assess own applications realistically against tender evaluation criteria
Who should attend?
This webinar will be of interest to SFA and DWP provider staff who have, or are likely to have, responsibility for input into/co-ordination of bid/tender responses. It will be of particular value to newly appointed business development and external funding managers.

The Package:
  • Access to the live Webinar (or a link to view the recorded version if you are unable to attend on the day)
  • Ability to ask the presenter questions during the Q&A session (or access to a copy of the questions raised during the live Webinar if you are not able to attend on the day or a copy of the questions and answers to any questions which were raised on the Webinar that we did not have time to answer on the live Webinar)
  • A link to view a PDF of the presentation slides