Understand tendering. Prepare your business for it. Strategise your approach.
Understand tendering as a process. Create a strategy tailored to your business. Equip yourself for maximum success through due diligence, guidance and tools
Learn the techniques of writing top-scoring bids Create an approach to your own style of bid-writing Learn what contributes to a high-scoring proposal Manage deadlines efficiently
Discover the essentials of tendering, find out what it means, how it works, and see how it can really boost your business profits!
This course will give you the knowledge and skills to write a successful bid for contracts.
Any business owner, sole trader, bid writer, or anyone who is looking to start tendering, including those who started tendering, but with little success.
If one of the below statements resonates, this course is for you:
"I’m not sure where to start"
"I don’t know where to look for tenders"
"I don’t have enough time or money to tender properly"
"I don’t know what I need to start tendering"
"There are too many documents, it’s too overwhelming"
"I don’t how to fill out a tender, there’s too much to complete"
"I keep failing and I don’t know where I’m going wrong"
Part 1 of the course, take the overwhelming, stressful process of tendering, and turns it into a structured, clear process which is broken down into small, achievable steps.
I believe, that to be truly successful with tenders, you have to:
1. Understand tendering as a process
2. Have the right strategy and approach
3. Write top-scoring proposals
Each lesson gives you action points and breaks the whole process into a beginner-friendly manner, while explaining each phase in jargon-free way.
I only cover what you really need to know to tender for contracts successfully.
I provide strategies, resources, files and my best practice tips, to help you define an internal bid process for maximised contract wins.
It will tell you step by step, exactly what you need to do and where you need to start as a company to begin tendering for contracts.
It will help you finally understand what tendering means, and why there is even such a thing as tendering for contracts!
It will help you define a winning strategy that’s suitable for your business and its future goals based on success factors and potential obstacles.
I’ll tell you what to look out for in terms of compliance, pass/fail criteria and help you with due diligence allowing you to prepare bids that pass the initial check.
I’ve done my research and there is no other course out there that ticks all of the below boxes (which this course ticks!):
· An all-online course
Interactive and engaging
· Learn at your own pace
· Assignments
· Tests and quizzes
· Templates and worksheets
· Editable answers
· Lifetime access
· Visual diagrams and sketches of information presented in an easy-flow way
A short introduction to the course, your teacher and terminology, information to know before the course starts!
All the basics of tendering explained and simplified, covering the process from start to finish, why tendering exists and where tenders are published. Grab a pen and paper, and let's dive in!
Time to explore the basics of tendering - covering all the important topics of bid compliance, types of tenders and documents. Get a cuppa ready, this module is a chunky one!
Teaches you the different tendering strategies, along with how to develop a successful tendering technique based on your business model/goals. Covers strategies for new/start-up businesses, and applying for incumbent tenders.
An explanation of the functionalities of tender portals, including demonstrations of the 4 most common tenders in the UK, how to navigate them, submit tenders and raise clarifications.
The module covers the typical documents you get with a tender, which sections to pay attention to and how to use the documents to complete the tender compliantly.
I'm an APMP-certified bid writer, writing tenders and proposals since 2017, in every niche industry possible. I’ve worked for 2 bid-writing agencies, each one with its unique approach, and techniques to writing proposals. Since then, I’ve noticed a pattern, and the most common hurdles that businesses face: not passing the initial check, failing with selecting the right opportunities, losing marks on quality responses, finding the process overwhelming and complex, not understanding the documents... to name but a few! The course is geared towards resolving all of the above pain points, as well as giving you the tools to start tendering the right way, without wasting time due to a poor tendering strategy (or lack of).
Let’s be real here – money matters. This is why you’re going after tenders in the first place, right?
With any type of investment into your business, of course you hope to get that return on investment.
Well here’s the deal:
Most bid writers charges around £200 - £450 per day on average, but it can be more
(Note: unlike most bid writers, I don’t have a day rate, I charge per project as this seems more fair to me).
You might hire them for 2-5 days, per tender.
If your budget is limited and you want to keep your bid writing costs to a minimum, and internally, an online course is going to be your best bet.
“Learning Tender and Bid Writing with Aggie has been a great experience for me. She is very knowledgeable and has mastered the winning strategies of securing contracts for small, medium or large enterprises including startups. Her attention to detail is simply remarkable and her practice reviews are so helpful. Thanks to their support, I feel more confident and equipped to tackle any tender that comes my way. I can't recommend Aggie enough for anyone looking to ace tender writing.” Nnenna Joseph PHOTO