One of the biggest challenges facing small and medium size business in the current economic climate is to know how to use their restricted resources to find work with public institutions. The way that Public Procurement works for contract below £100,000 has recently changed. Still, too many businesses new to public work rely on the main portal contractfinder.co.uk, missing other resource available to them.
2. Common frustrations with tendering
Don’t know where to find tenders
Number of tender notices have decreased in the last
5 years
Contracts published in portals
are too big for SMEs
Big amount to prepare, with
little or not positive results
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12. How to get tenders into my inbox
• You need to be organised.
– Decide sector and location
– Prepare a list of contacts
– Record
• how they advertise their tender notices
• how you can become an accredited supplier.
• when they will re-tender.
– Act
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13. No rule for
procurement
process for
contracts <£k100
Advertisement of
contract done
through different
channels
Thousand of
contracts outside
there , you are not
aware of.
If you want to work with public sector you
need to
•be organised,
www.tenders-elearning.com
•know well the inner game,
•know how to approach tenders effectively.
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