How the Effective Tender Writer Finds Possible Tender Opportunities

How the Effective Tender Writer Finds Possible Tender Opportunities

By Red Tape Busters 8th July, 2015

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� Tender writing is more than just responding to questions or filling out a form, the effective tender writer will be casting his/her net wide to identify as many relevant tender opportunities as possible. � Tender opportunities are publicised and published via a variety of mediums and therefore a quality tender writer will use a variety of strategies and platforms to identify opportunities for their business or non profit organisation.

Tender opportunities can be found as follows:-

News Paper :� Major newspapers will have tenders advertised either through the paper or in the classified sections – generally Wednesday and Saturday are the best days but check every day just in case. � Also your local suburban newspaper might also have commercial/State/Federal Government tenders advertised but it will certainly publicise those of your local Council.

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Local Council/State/Federal Government Websites:� Obviously these websites are vital and will have details about available tenders. � The smart tender writer though will ensure that they set up an alert system via each website so that as soon as any tenders are released which meet their decided parameters that the websites will automatically notify the tender writer that the tender has been released. � These websites however can be prone to being slow with the “alert” so I strongly suggest you regularly review the websites manually to make sure you don’t miss any opportunities.

Local Councillor :� Your local Councillor/s are a great avenue to being notified of any available local tenders. � If you go an introduce yourself and outline what your business/organisation does they should be more than happy to put you on their “mailing” database so that they can send you email notification of any appropriate tenders.

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:State/Federal MP MP:� Similarly to your local Councillor/s, you should be able to get yourself on their mailing database and hopefully they can advise you of any tenders as they become available from the different levels of Government.

Networking:� This is another great avenue to become aware of possible tender opportunities. � People in your network, even competitors might divulge information about possible opportunities so keep your ear to the ground.

Fee For Service Websites:� There are many of these websites around where you can pay a fee and they will send you details of possible tenders that you might be interested in. � Websites like Tenderlink provide a fee for service tender notification service for those that can afford it. � These websites however will not dig deep into the tender to identify if the tender will meet your business needs – they will just notify you of opportunities that meet the parameters you have set.

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Social Media:� This a relatively new platform to use to become aware of tender opportunities, however all Councils and Government Departments now have a presence on say Twitter and Facebook and if you follow their pages/accounts there will no doubt be information over time about the release of tenders.

Tender Writing Companies:� At Red Tape Busters we certainly provide a fee for service arrangement where clients can engage us to undertake the research to identify tender prospects. � The difference with us is that we will dig deep into the tender and the business/organisational goals/strategies/needs and then make recommendations on the best opportunities to pursue to our client. � This is very important as not every opportunity should necessarily be pursued and it is important that organisations only chase those opportunities that fit them exactly and where they are a reasonable chance of success. � If you cast your net widely and use a mix of all of the above mediums then very few tenders will get past you which will give you more chances of winning a tender with the right tender response.

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