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Thanks bens, that's a brilliant reply.
I'm the one trying to tender for the contract. There's very little information on their site to go by except please tender[emoji849].


I don’t see how you can tender if you don’t have the specs.
You need to know exactly what they want and when it needs doing by.
When you know that you can price for it.
Then breakdowns of of everything that will be done and importantly anything that would not be inclusive in the price and need to be agreed separately.
Include insurances qualifications etc
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I don’t see how you can tender if you don’t have the specs.
You need to know exactly what they want and when it needs doing by.
When you know that you can price for it.
Then breakdowns of of everything that will be done and importantly anything that would not be inclusive in the price and need to be agreed separately.
Include insurances qualifications etc


I've sent off all my requests for detailed info and now I wait.
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Are you sure you are using the right words here ; apologies if it is me that is confused with your question.

 

A tender seeks offers to carry out work or supply goods at a stated fixed price; a tender will contain a specification of the works that are to be carried out. Part of the tender document will have a section to be completed with your price to carry out the works

 

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Never written one but seen  many,  obviously it can be a fixed price or frame work agreement. Your work specs need to be focused, not open to interpretation.

I know there is standard used for some high value government tenders and I believe depending on the value.

 

I have some previous tenders, if you drop me a pm i can email them over?

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The Arb Association ran a day course ‘Becoming Tender Ready’ a few years back.

It did give some useful insights into how tenders work.   But I have never been very good..

 

You can spend days putting together all the documents they need making up prices on vague specifications "how much would you charge to remove a 50cm branch at 10.30 on Saturday evening?.." and then they use a scoring system so that it is "fair" but ignores all common sense..  I admit to being somewhat bitter..  We lost out on being a contractor on a 4 year LBC contract where our yard is sited,  we had been doing the works for the previous 8 years but due to my naivety in filling in the forms were deemed "too expensive.." Even though 3 of the firms who were selected were at least an hour and a half drive from the borough and could not in reality compete on price (or quality). 

 

I dislike filling in tenders intensely.  Especially when they are for developers who might only be at the tendering stage themselves..

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