A Day in the Life – A Bid Consultant’s Perspective (Training course)
Category: Tendering
Today we’re in York where Richard is delivering our Best Practice Bid Writing training course to healthcare professionals ahead of an upcoming bid. The course will introduce them to a methodology (process, tools and techniques) that can transform their internal tendering process to produce significantly improved bids, which are both compelling and customer focused. Through […]
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Season’s Greetings: A Year in the Life of Impart
Category: Tendering
Now that Christmas music and fairy lights abound, it’s time to reflect on what has been a busy year at Impart. Although we would love to give you a month-by-month summary, we’ve selected some of our highlights to share. We’ve grown – two new team members, Dave Austin and Ben Major (and looking for another) […]
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Business Development – Making Tendering Easy
Category: Tendering
Tendering can be an arduous process for the best of us, especially if it has to be fit in around day-to-day duties. That’s why, as part of our best practice approach, we have developed a number of tools and processes to make tendering as easy and painless as possible. One of the issues that subject […]
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Best Practice – Red Team Reviews
Category: Tendering
It is best practice to undertake a Red Team Review (RTR), also known as a Critical Friend or a peer review, at the end of the bid writing-review cycle prior to submission. This ensures: 1 – The question has been answered fully and is a compelling read 2 – Your written messages are aligned to […]
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A Day in the Life – A Consultant’s Perspective (Interviews)
Category: Tendering
Today we are interviewing subject matter experts (SMEs) to strengthen their answers to a sexual health service tender. Due to the breadth of the questions we will require input from our client’s operational staff, clinical colleagues and partners. Working with SMEs during the bid writing process is a rewarding experience, but everyone works in different […]
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Bid Writing – So What?
Category: Tendering
As a pencil enthusiast, you walk into a pencil showroom and a salesperson notices that you’re interested in a certain model. They walk over to you and explain what it has to offer. “This model has a hexagonal shape, an eraser and is made of wood. Shall I wrap it up for you?” It’s likely […]
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Best Practice – Writing Style
Category: Tendering
We have obsessive attention to detail, it’s something that’s often commented on – and we’re proud of it. It can be the difference between winning and losing. The influence and impact of a bid’s written style cannot be underestimated. It can help make life so much easier for the evaluators – if it’s easy to […]
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Business Development – Repeat Customers
Category: Tendering
As a consultancy and training organisation, we work with many different customers in both the private and public sectors. One factor of our success is the strong relationships we develop with our clients, and this is due in part to the importance we place on customer service. We continue to work with the vast majority […]
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A Day in the Life – A Consultant’s Perspective (Response review meeting)
Category: Tendering
We take a flexible, modular approach to the delivery of the services we offer, which helps when clients don’t want to be hand-held throughout the tender process, but prefer assistance at specific points. Today we are meeting a client in Hartlepool to provide face-to-face guidance on how to improve some trickier aspects of their tender […]
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Business Development – Enhancing Resources
Category: Tendering
At Impart, we not only help our clients win more business, but we also help them to improve their organisations and achieve/maintain long-term success. This is done in a number of ways, including: Attending our training courses, especially the popular Best Practice Bid Writing course. This one-day workshop provides delegates with the skills and tools […]
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