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AM Bid joins Causeway: Ireland Scotland Business Exchange as Premier Partners

AM Bid, one of the UK’s leading bidding and tender specialists, is pleased to announce a new partnership with Causeway: Ireland Scotland Business Exchange as the membership organisation’s newest Premier Partners. David Gray, Managing Director, AM Bid has been actively involved with the Causeway network for a number of years. Commenting on becoming a Causeway Premier Partner, David said: “I’m

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AM Bid partners with Elmhurst Energy to boost SME engagement with public sector

Award winning bidding and tender specialist, AM Bid, has announced a new partnership with Elmhurst Energy, the UK’s largest independent provider of energy assessment training, software and accreditation. The two companies are joining forces to promote the opportunities that exist for SMEs to bid for and win public sector contracts. The UK public sector tenders out more than £290 billion

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Mental Health and Wellbeing at Work

Mental health awareness and wellbeing at work are more important now than ever. Ensuring employees have open dialogue with their employers around mental health issues is imperative. The past 2 years have thrown up a number of challenges for employees, none more so than the changing work environment. In this article, we discuss signs to look out for, stigmas around

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Top Three Tips for Successful Business Planning

We recently teamed up with our strategic partners ActionCOACH, a leading business coaching organisation, to offer our clients and stakeholders access to a free 90-day planning session to get them off to a fast start in 2022. Here are the three of the top tips for successful business planning from the session. Focus on a 90-day business plan It’s easy

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5 quick wins to improve your bids

What quick changes can you make to enhance your bid output and improve your win probability? Our Managing Director, David Gray, shares his 5 top tips: 1. Start with strategy Before any Bid Writing is done, you should schedule a meaningful Bid Kick Off workshop with the key stakeholders involved in the tender process. Use the workshop to discuss and

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SMEs warned to ready themselves for public procurement changes

SMEs need to prepare now for the UK government’s anticipated move from Most Economically Advantageous Tender to Most Advantageous Tender evaluations, to avoid missing out to larger businesses on their share of the £290bn the public sector spends annually. The move, outlined in the government’s response to the Transforming Public Procurement Green Paper, would allow elements other than cost to

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£50m 4-year Land, Design and Build Social Housing Framework

Published date – Monday 31st January 2022 Deadline date – Friday 1st April 2022 Buyer Overview Radius Housing provide housing, care and support to over 33,000 homes. They employ over 1,000 people and manage 12,500 properties across Northern Ireland. Radius maintains social housing properties in all 11 council areas throughout Northern Ireland, with regional offices across Belfast, Holywood, Ballymena, Newry

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£100m 10-year Repairs, Maintenance, Voids and Planned Works Framework

Published date – Wednesday 2nd February 2022 Deadline date – Tuesday 22nd March 2022 Buyer Overview Home Group is one of the UK’s largest housing associations. They were founded in 1935 and were created om the north east of England, however, now have properties throughout England and Scotland. Home Group supports over 113k customers, throughout 55k properties. Home Group supports

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Inclusive Recruitment in the 2020s

Recruiting staff from a diverse range of backgrounds through inclusive recruitment creates a strong, skilled and loyal workforce, and has a proven track record of delivering results. Why consider inclusive recruitment as an employer? Finding talent outside the perceived ‘best fit’ enables employers to reach those who have all the right skills, but do not have the usual access to

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UK Government Publishes Response to Transforming Public Procurement Green Paper Consultation

In December 2021, the UK Government published its response to the consultation process that followed its 2020 Green Paper on transforming public procurement in the UK. The consultation received over six hundred submissions, demonstrating strong interest and engagement from bidding and procurement stakeholders alike. The subsequent government response shows broad support for a number of key proposals which will change the way

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