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PQQ BASICS – WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW PQQ is something you’ll hear most often in the tendering and procurement world. The term can take many forms including SQ (Selection Questionnaire), Stage 1 Tender and the recently established ESPD (European Single Procurement Document). PQQ stands for Pre-qualification questionnaire and it does exactly...

CREATIVE TENDERING OPPORTUNITIES – THAT’S WHAT WE DO! WHETHER YOU AGREE OR DISAGREE, HERE IS YOUR CHANCE TO HAVE YOUR SAY!  If you are a customer on one of our platforms, please help us by having your say. Highlight what does work for you and what doesn’t, when it comes to your subscription...

WHEN WRITING BIDS, TIME IS A PRECIOUS THING! Not only is there an imminent deadline, but if you don’t give it your all and put everything you have into the bid, then it’s not only time you’re wasting – it’s money! We’ve provided a few best practice principles to make...

Bid Support – Breaking down the question If you do not know what the question is asking – this is your first hurdle. In order to jump that hurdle, carefully examine what kind of question it is. Although there are hundreds of question variations out there, our bid support allows you...

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...