Tailored Bid Preparation Courses
The process of bidding for both public and private sector work can be complex and time-consuming. We offer a range of bid and tender preparation training courses to ensure your workforce has the right skills to write and manage bids and tenders effectively.
To provide your company with the skills and knowledge to successfully bid for contracts, we have developed bid preparation training courses, based on our 15 years’ experience supporting with more than 10,000+ submissions.
Our in-house bid preparation training is delivered via online workshops to your team at times to suit you, tailored to your current levels of experience, competence, strengths and weaknesses. Regardless of whether your organisation is new to bidding and needs to explore the whole tender process from start to finish, or if you are more experienced and are looking to improve your ability to create high-quality and persuasive responses to increase your success rate, our bid preparation training can be tailored to meet your requirements.
Ahead of the training, our team would review one or more past tenders submitted by your organisation, helping to drive the personalisation of the course to specifically respond to identified development areas. We will also discuss which industry and sector you work in, tailoring the training accordingly. We produce winning bids in partnership with organisations in all industries.
Our team are involved in 1000 bids and tenders each year, and therefore we are well-placed to support your organisation.
Throughout the training day itself, content, examples and discussions will align specifically to your experiences, priorities and objectives, helping you and your team to make the most of the course. As well as bid preparation skills, we target abilities relevant to the whole bid and tender process, all captured within our training manual.
The workshops are designed to be interactive and to provide you with a wide range of skills and knowledge to help your company complete PQQs, SQs, bids and tenders to a high quality and become successful bidders, using the same proven bid processes that our professional bid managers and writers apply every day.
1.Introduction to tendering course
For those new to the procurement process, our online introduction to tendering course covers:
- Discovering how to source the right opportunities from the public sector
- Developing your approach for deciding whether an opportunity is for you
- Understanding what documents you will need to fill in
- Understanding how to complete the documentation.
All courses are bespoke, meaning we would tailor this to your industry and provide suitable examples for your business.
2.Bid and tender preparation training
The bid and tender writing training course is a one-day bespoke workshop for a group or 10 day 2 hr per day, covering topics such as:
- What is a tender
- Types of tendering processes
- Key things to check in tenders
- Understanding tender terms
- Common Statutory Documents
- Common Mistakes people make in tendering
- How to fill tender forms
- How to start preparing a tender
- Common letters required in tendering process
- Presentation of bid document
Clients completing the course become more confident in navigating the complex public sector procurement process with a strong understanding that allows them to participate and manage the tender process effectively.