Tender specialist

[Andymacp]

Can anyone please recommend a company or individual that can do or help with tenders

 

 

[skyhuck]

When it comes to tinder, you're better filling it in yourself.

[benedmonds]

I have not used anyone for tendering but I have looked into it a few times.

I can't get my head around spending thousands on a gamble, when you can just get underpriced and I don't see how these experts are going to help on that score..

 

My latest unsuccessful bid came back today, after days of my time wasted. Winning bid £23,500. Mine £46,595..

At least I hadn't also wasted thousands on a consultant..

 

If you do try someone would be interested in the out come. You will need deep pockets.

 

We used Paul Elcoat before we became ARB approved to bring us up to spec and he can help if he isn't already doing it for someone else.. [email protected]

 

Carol Huslter at TEDs friend did the "getting tender ready" for the Arb association [email protected]

 

Simon Cox has also been recommended to me but never actually got past a brief email conversation and his hourly rate..  [email protected]

 

[Ian C]

Spending all that on AAAC has brought you very little then it seems, price is mostly the deciding factor!

[benedmonds]

2 hours ago, Ian C said:

Spending all that on AAAC has brought you very little then it seems, price is mostly the deciding factor!

Being ARB approved is expensive and very stressful on assessment day and it doesn't garantee you win tenders..

 

The main reason we do it is that it ensures we are working to best practice although there are quite a few tenders that do require you being arb approved.

[rookery]

I have not used anyone for tendering but I have looked into it a few times.
I can't get my head around spending thousands on a gamble, when you can just get underpriced and I don't see how these experts are going to help on that score..
 
My latest unsuccessful bid came back today, after days of my time wasted. Winning bid £23,500. Mine £46,595..
At least I hadn't also wasted thousands on a consultant..
 
If you do try someone would be interested in the out come. You will need deep pockets.
 
We used Paul Elcoat before we became ARB approved to bring us up to spec and he can help if he isn't already doing it for someone else.. [email protected]
 
Carol Huslter at TEDs friend did the "getting tender ready" for the Arb association [email protected]
 
Simon Cox has also been recommended to me but never actually got past a brief email conversation and his hourly rate..  [email protected]
 

[Mark Bolam]

Funny how the winning bid is pretty much exactly half Ben.

Maybe they will climb on one rope....

[Khriss]

Never bother - think of a number n double it plus 20 % fr the VAT, got tender sent over on a 5million squid job then looked at '  the client'  n binned it. K

[Andymacp]

It’s not really to do with the price it’s answering all the bone questions in a way that smart people like.

[Lowestoft Firewood]

We do a lot of tenders where I work for significant amounts of business. You have to carefully look at the weighting and how much it is weighted towards price / non price bits. We lost a big one recently as a competitor had just gone way lower price and even if they had scored 0 on the non price bit they would still have won.

 

We have built up a good amount of 'stock' tender responses full of the waffle they like. A lot of the time it is just interpreting local authority speak and then pulling out things you are already doing and just demonstrating it. 

 

If you havent got experience with tenders I'd say well worth getting an expert to advise.