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BEST NEW BUSINESS – HUDSON PROCUREMENT GROUP RECEIVES 3 NOMINATIONS We are over the moon to announce that we have been shortlisted for not one, not two, but three awards at this year’s National Best New Business Awards! The awards will be held at Kensington, London, this coming June! Hudson Procurement Group...

TUPE – WHAT IS IT & HOW DOES IT AFFECT YOU? I know what some of you are thinking – what on earth is TUPE? One thing we are not here to do, is provide you a whole lot of legal jargon surrounding compliance and adherence to specific laws. This blog focuses on the...

FRAMEWORK AGREEMENT – TOP 4 THINGS TO ASK YOURSELF You’re most likely to see the term ‘Framework Agreement’ scattered across our tendering portals, asking for multiple suppliers to deliver/supply either one or more services/goods across various locations. Sounds pretty broad, right? Well, through utilising a Framework Agreement, this is a...

Want to find more Private Tender Opportunities? The best way to inter-trade is with us – are you ready to do business? Intertrading – a term that so many businesses want to hear day in and day out. It’s a term that indicates business transactions being a two-way street, featuring both...

BID WRITING SUPPORT – THE DAPCAS MODEL Bid writing support can be varied and contradictory – that’s why we invented the DAPCAS model, to boil down the tendering process into its most simplistic formula. Here is a short breakdown to outline the parameters of the model. D is for Decipher...

Top 6 Necessities to Bid Writing! By Daniel Hall As Nathanial Hawthorne once said – “easy reading is damn hard writing.” That is exactly what every bid writer needs to do! Make the reading of the proposed content as easy as possible for the buyer/evaluator to comprehend. Although I’m considered the...

Tender help? Top 5 Tips – March 2018.  I’ve learnt a lot over the last 15 years of tendering. I’ve made all the mistakes you’re likely to have made and I’ve read hundreds if not thousands of pieces of feedback, both good and bad. I’ve also sat on both sides...

BBC launches the third phase of their ‘Drama Directors Scheme’ with the Scottish soap opera ‘River City’. Do you want the chance to be behind one of the UK’s biggest drama series? Well now, you can. Pitches and CVs are being sought nationwide to find the next best director[s] to...

What are CPV Codes? The Pains of Procurement CPV Codes – the abbreviation most people assume is Complex, Problematic, Valueless. In actual fact, the term stands for Common Procurement Vocabulary – although the prior may still apply.  What are they? CPV codes are used to categorise tenders into a ‘subject...

HAVE YOUR SAY – TENDER VLE – How can our specialist tender training benefit YOU? CLICK HERE TO TAKE PART! With the impending launch of Tender VLE, our FREE virtual learning environment, fast approaching, we would like to hear from you regarding the beneficiaries of the platform. Our vision has remained...

WHAT IS A DYNAMIC PURCHASING SYSTEM? The DPS in Tendering! Here we go again – another term which is not well known in all industry sectors across the UK – a Dynamic Purchasing System. As always, we are here to help you understand all these ‘niggly’ bits to tendering, to...

WE HAD TO GOOGLE THE VISION OF OUR OWN COMPANY! – Making sure you have consistent marketing messages! Businesses can often feel like they’re losing their way, especially when producing tender documents and relaying their ‘spirit’ and clear marketing messages across on paper. Competition is growing with the increase in entrepreneurial mindsets and...

WHY CHOOSE CREATIVE TENDERS? Helping you discover Creative Bids! Creative bids can be difficult to find, so we have put together a short guide to demonstrate how Creative Tenders can help you! Creative Tenders is an online platform which ensures all UK-wide contracts and tender opportunities (both private and public) are...