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I’M IN COMPETITION WITH MYSELF AND I’M LOSING! – Tender Basics! Tender Basics are the foundation of your bid writing success. Our Growth Director, Jill Hudson, has over 16 years’ experience with Tender Writing, so she knows how lonely it can get when you see rejection in the early days....

“THEY ALREADY KNOW WHO THEY WANT TO USE!” – The Tendering Process We’ve all heard stories about backhanded business deals and brown paper envelopes passed under the table for the decision making to go in favour of a specific business on a particular contract/opportunity. This is drastically changing for the better, having analysed...

DON’T WORRY ABOUT DISTANCE: We live in a Digital World! – International Tendering! This is an age-old debate here at Hudson Procurement Group. We’re constantly telling our customers to spread their wings when it comes to bidding for new business and succumb to International Tendering. Historically, we used to take as...

WHAT’S HAPPENING IN MARCH 2018? Our Plans! Another month down, another month approaching which is full of endless potential. March 2018 will see the end of our first financial quarter and BOY … are we ecstatic of how this year has started. The past two months have seen our biggest turnover to date,...

DIGITAL MARKET PLACE – Creative Tenders Support So, the government launched Digital Market Place to support digital companies with sourcing government contracts and government buyers to source digital suppliers.  Seems simple, right? Not exactly. In theory, we totally love Digital Market Place, I mean who wouldn’t as a tender writer...

Common Trends in Public Sector Tendering! We think it’s safe to say that every year, something new happens in the world of procurement. This is due to the ever-changing landscape that buyers and suppliers constantly find themselves in. Here are, in our opinion, a small collection of common trends across...

HAVE YOUR SAY! What do you want to know? Creative Tenders Every month – we want to hear from YOU! Creative Tenders wants to get to know you as a customer and understand your thoughts, processes, and problems when it comes to UK tendering. Our vision has remained the same since...

Understanding & Implementing Tender Feedback Understanding and Implementing Tender Feedback – we all dread it, don’t we? When the doomed ‘Contract Award’ notification hits our inbox with an attached letter titled ‘unsuccessful’ or ‘regret letter’. This can be one of the very few things that make our business-fueled hearts completely...

The importance of RELEVANT Case Studies! Tenders these days (especially in the Public sector) are extremely structured in that they all feature the same legality clauses and requests, based upon EU legislation and procurement law. One other majorly structured trait to a tender and something the buyer definitely wants to...

GDPR – Understanding what’s expected! As I’m sure you’re well aware by now, May 25th sees the implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (or GDPR for short). This will be the new term used for the storing, processing and management of personal data. Basically, DPA and confidentiality processes have a...

Bid Writing – To bid or not to bid? THAT is the question! … Right? Many factors may affect your decision to either bid or not bid for a contract. Rather than making it a gruelling and drawn out tender process, keep it simple. We have put together a few...

The Rules and Regulations when Tendering Procurement: – The aspect of a business that many organisations wish was easier. Buyers in the public sector, such as housing associations, councils, and other relevant government departments are dealing with public money. Our taxes! So, therefore, all that is procured must be done...

SMEs – Catapult wants YOU at the ‘Engage 2018’ event! An exciting opportunity has arisen for SMEs that will potentially bring FANTASTIC opportunities and recognition to your company! The Satellite Applications Catapult will be attending Engage 2018 by Digital Globe on 10–11 April 2018.  They published an opportunity stating they are...