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Think Tenders scoops two new awards
Think Tenders scoops two new awards
Think Tenders has once again been recognised as a leader in the field of bid management and for delivering high quality services with two new national awards.
Firstly, we have been named Bid Management Services Firm of the Year 2017 in the Innovation & Excellence Awards, which honours and celebrates businesses and firms who are creating a brighter tomorrow. The Innovation & Excellence Awards give recognition to businesses that are transforming their respective industries and the standard-bearers of excellence by continually setting industry trends as well as showing significant advances in terms of innovation and improvement.
Alongside this, we are winner of the Best Small to Medium Size Business Category
at the 2017 Best Business Awards, selected by a large panel of over 20 independent expert judges according to strict criteria.
Commenting on the award to Think Tenders, in the Best Small to Medium Business category, the Chairman of the Judges said: “The government is keen for smaller businesses to get a bigger slice of the lucrative public sector market and Think Tenders provides an easy route to enter. Businesses using its expertise in writing bids for public sector work can save themselves a huge amount of time and effort. Amanda and the team have impressive conversion rates. In their first three years, they helped clients secure £500 million in public sector contracts. They operate a brilliant business model and are a must-have partner for companies trying to get a foothold in the public sector.”
The Best Business Awards are one of the UK’s highest profile awards and winning this accolade speaks volumes about the quality of Think Tenders and the services we provided to our clients. The awards attract a wide range of entries from across all sectors from large international PLCs and public sector organisations to dynamic and innovative SMEs. A winner of the Best Small to Medium Business award demonstrates we are truly excellent at what we do.
Scape Group seek construction contractors to bid on new frameworks and tenders.
Covid sending numbers into negative territory A sluggish recovery from the covid-19 crisis is edging tender prices across the UK closer to deflation, Arcadis has warned. The consultant has downgraded its tender price forecast for 2020 to -4% in London and -3% in the regions in its latest quarterly analysis of the UK construction markets.
Construction firms working on HS2 have collaborated to create a common pre-qualification system that will streamline tenders and cut costs. The Common Assessment Standard will mean bidders looking to work with four of the biggest main contractors on the scheme will go through an identical pre-qualification process.
Tender cost forecast for the UK construction industry has held steady for the third quarter of 2019, with predicted tender price growth of 1.5% for 2020, according to Mace . Reviewing the latest tender cost forecast, Mace’s cost consultancy team have flagged that Brexit uncertainty and global issues like the US-China trade war are likely to drive challenging industry behaviours and hold the potential to put further pressure on tender prices.
A programme of three FREE masterclasses are being provided to help smaller businesses in Cheshire East learn how to win public sector contracts, in association with North Cheshire Chamber of Commerce. They will show how public sector procurement works, the different frameworks in public sector contracts, how to identify the best opportunities and how to write a winning bid.
Brexit has delivered some issues, no doubt about that. It has also presented a massive opportunity to put right a lot of what is wrong in the public procurement sphere. This is a chance to establish the foundations of public procurement policy and to enable contracting authorities to drive real value for money, cost effectiveness, continuous development and innovation into the public services for the communities they serve.
Almost two thirds (64%) of UK public procurement professionals say social value has become more important over the last 12 months, according to Fusion21’s latest Procurement Trends Report.
A £1bn contract to build up to three Fleet Solid Support (FSS) ships has been tendered internationally: Ministers say that it had to be done under EU competition rules. However, the Government faces increasing calls to list the vessels, which carry defensive weapons and supply the fleet with ammunition and stores, as warships. By national security requirements they would then have to be built in Britain.