Tendering Top Tips
- Fully read all the instructions provided
- Make sure you read the specification carefully and ensure that you meet all the requirements; you must provide evidence to support your responses
- If you don't understand the specification or other requirements contact the procurement officer for clarification
- Always use the pre-formatted tender documents provided, rather than your own as it helps us in our evaluation.
- Answers should be clear - do not presume that the evaluation team know your business as the team comprises many representatives
- Information and answers need to illustrate how they meet the scope of the specification. For example, if you are requested to provide an outline of previous experiences, these need to demonstrate how they relate to the requirements of the contract
- Input responses that allow evaluation. For example, do not state that you will provide information/answers later, as the evaluation team will be unable to asses the response if none is provided
- If your answer to any question is no or none, please state no or none rather than leaving the space blank.
- It is the quality of the information submitted not the quantity. Always answer all the questions and submit all the additional information asked for. Do not dress the information up or try to be economical with the truth.
- When asked to provide references, please provide relevant names of organisations that you have carried out the same type of work for.
- When asked to provide accounts, provide the most up to date set(s)
- Check that you have enclosed everything that was asked for and if applicable include section references
- Please ensure that you send your tender submission in sufficient time to reach the Council before the deadline date and time
- Please ensure that if you are sending a hard copy response (by post) that you request an official tender envelope from the Council well in advance of the deadline.
The Office of Government Commerce (OGC) together with the Small Business Service (SBS) have launched a website - www.supply2.gov.uk to help small businesses supplying to the government.
