Why may you choose to challenge an unsuccessful outcome? Some reasons for challenging the outcome may include: Incorrect scoring of the response, the feedback may suggest that responses have not been read in their entirety. The successful bidder submitted an unrealistically low price. Suspicion of corruption or bribery The documentation format favoured a particular bidder. The decision to challenge an outcome primarily relies on whether you feel the tender process has been run and evaluated appropriately. Should you consider challenging an outcome based on price, you will need to consider t ..read more

The first step of the tender process is to find the right tender for you. Do you need help on choosing whether to bid? We have a bid/no bid template available for FREE!! Here's a taster: For the full template please email me with: bid/no bid template at georgina.bock@klickbusinesssolutions.co.uk ..read more

As many of you may know, our Managing Directors Andrea & Rob lost their beautiful daughter to Leukaemia, aged 20, 5 years ago. Obviously this was a tragic loss to everyone at Klick Business Solutions. As well as running Klick, Andrea has worked tirelessly ever since to raise awareness of blood cancer and funds to support research to find a cure with Cure Leukaemia. last week, Andrea displayed the work she has been doing at BBC Gardeners'​ World Events LIVE show at the Birmingham NEC, NEC Group and the amazing show organisers (Lucy TremlettImogen Grundy and Bob Sweet) provided an outside b ..read more

Not winning enough tenders? Tender writing is taking up too much of your time and energy? You just hate writing tenders! Klick Business Solutions are an outsourced tender writing company, we work closely with our clients to write the methodology in the bid documentation, following brainstorms, meetings and after we have a full understanding of the tender in question and your company. We have 20 years of experience in writing and winning public sector tender/bids. Last year we won over 700M worth of business for our clients via successful tender wins. Klick successfully work with a huge, divers ..read more

In May 2022, I began my career as a Tender Writer. A month prior, I had just graduated from John Moore’s University in Liverpool, where I got a 2:1 in my Sports Journalism degree. I left university with little idea of what I wanted to do as a career. Of course, Journalism would have been the obvious route, however I just didn’t feel like this was the right path for me to go down, so I felt a bit lost. Writing has always been one of my strong points, right through primary school up to university, so I began searching for writing Jobs across the internet. This is how I came across a job advert ..read more

With summer fast approaching (although I know it doesn’t seem that way at the moment!) have you put plans in place to cover your tender management support for any submissions due over the holiday period? Now is the time to think about organising this cover so that you and your colleagues can enjoy a break without the stress of worrying whether your tender has been completed and submitted…..or not. When it comes to tendering, there is very rarely any leeway with deadlines. Deadlines will not change just because you have decided to book two weeks in the sun and Buyers will definitely not wait t ..read more

As a team of expert tender writers and consultants, we know writing winning tenders is a skill that takes time, hard work and detailed analysis of every element of a proposal, from the initial’ bid or no bid’ decision, through to the actual submission of the final high scoring, bespoke response documents. Losing a tender is not on our agenda and we work closely with our clients to avoid common mistakes. When we talk to companies that are not successful at tendering, it’s normally down to the following reasons: ,PRICE Losing tenders on price is very common, you may be scoring highly on qualit ..read more

Do you have a desk full of tenders/bids and a management team who think you should bid for all of them? Do you see tendering in the same way as buying a lottery ticket every week, using a conveyor belt approach to churn out hundreds of bids/tenders, and hoping that one eventually wins? Instead, you need to start ‘swiping left’ until you can ‘swipe right’ on the perfect match for your company! To be consistent with winning bids, it is vital to choose the right opportunities for you, that are realistic to carry out in terms of your size and capabilities. Have you got similar experience? Have yo ..read more

If you have previous experience tendering for work, there is good chance you have had to address your company’s social value commitments or proposed offerings. The Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012 states that Public Authorities are required to “have regard to economic, social and environmental well-being in connection with public services contracts; and for connected purposes”. As an SME with a strong interest in the development of our local community, Klick Business Solutions welcome these regulations. However, what does it actually mean to bidders? When undergoing a public procuremen ..read more

What is a Framework Agreement? What are the benefits of getting onto a Framework Agreement? It is estimated that up to 45% of procurement in the UK is based on framework agreements. A procurement framework is an agreement put in place with a provider or range of providers that enables buyers to place orders for services without running lengthy full tendering exercises. Frameworks are based on large volume buying. Due to the larger amount of suppliers entered into a Framework agreement they offer businesses a higher chance of success should they wish to bid to go onto a Framework Agreement. Ma ..read more