Bid and Tender Management
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Description
Overview
Course duration: 2 days.
In today's fast paced and ever changing business world, mergers, acquisitions tender and bidding opportunities are becoming the norm. Over two intensive days, you will learn the key principles of effective bid and tender management. This will enable you to maximise your ability to plan, manage and submit powerful and successful bids.
This exciting and practical hands-on course focuses on providing you with the tools necessary to drive a compelling winning bid. Using real-life examples, you will experience the dynamic and competitive nature of the complete bidding cycle.
From initial bid evaluation and decision to tender, through resource allocation and dai…
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Overview
Course duration: 2 days.
In today's fast paced and ever changing business world, mergers, acquisitions tender and bidding opportunities are becoming the norm. Over two intensive days, you will learn the key principles of effective bid and tender management. This will enable you to maximise your ability to plan, manage and submit powerful and successful bids.
This exciting and practical hands-on course focuses on providing you with the tools necessary to drive a compelling winning bid. Using real-life examples, you will experience the dynamic and competitive nature of the complete bidding cycle.
From initial bid evaluation and decision to tender, through resource allocation and daily management, to the ultimate production and submission of a bid, you will gain the tools to maximise your bidding opportunities.
Is it right for me?
Key business managers, business development executives, bid writers, key account managers, and research and business planning managers will all benefit from this exciting course. Fundamental business skills and concepts are assumed, and will not be covered on this course.
What will I learn?
The course will cover the entire bid cycle. It will provide you with proven and effective business tools and methods to:
- Evaluate and analyse bid requirements.
- Align your approach to what your customer wants.
- Determine and target the resources you will require.
- Identify the information you need to succeed.
- Set up the internal review procedures required for your bid.
- Structure your bid documentation effectively.
- Differentiate your bid from that of your competition.
- Control a structured submission.
- Plan and work efficiently within tight timescales.
- Assess and review your submission to drive continual improvement.
What will it cover?
The competitive bidding process
- Understanding bid basics
- Timescales and resources
- The buyer's and the sellers perspectives
- Business and legislative drivers
- Overseas implications
When to bid the decision making process
- Bid/no-bid decisions
- Identifying show-stoppers
- What will excite your customer
- Alliances and partnership opportunities
- Strategic and tactical business excellence models
- EFQM and RADAR Scoring Matrix©
- Presenting and communicating your decisions
How to manage an effective bid and response
- What is an ideal bid?
- The power team workshop
- Understanding the competition
- Formation of the core bid team
- Other members of the team
- Roles, skills and responsibilities
- The bid manager or director
- The structure and format of the bid document
- Controlling and monitoring the bid process
- Storyboarding
- Selling the benefits of your proposal
- Business case preparation and presentation
- The impact of change
- Qualifications to your bid
- Risk assessment and KPIs
- The Red Review why, who, when?
- Clarification requests
Production and submission of your bid
- Compliance
- Structure and impact
- Production
- Follow-up, responding to queries
- Presenting to your customer
- Review and evaluation
- Qualitative and quantitative assessment, review and continual improvement
- Negotiating the deal
- Mobilisation
Trainer Profile
The Faculty
Along withGraham Kerr and Helen Downey, Dave Hardwick is part of the dedicated faculty team who will deliver this course. The initials next to each date below indicate which trainer is scheduled to deliver which event.
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