Bid Management Services’ Managing Director Joanne Gillen talked with Conall O’Morain of the TodayFM Sunday Business Show this morning about the Dos and Don’ts of tendering in Ireland and internationally. To learn more about winning tenders in Ireland, tender training, and making bid/no-bid decisions, listen back to the radio show here.
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Free Meet the Buyer Event – Sept/Oct 2013
Bid Management Services is delighted to support the “Meet the Buyer” events taking place on:
13th September 2013 – Ramada Hotel, Belfast
17th October 2013 – City West Hotel, Dublin [Read more…]
Double Win at National Training Awards
For the second year running, Bid Management Services is delighted to have been chosen as the winner of the Irish Institute of Training and Development (IITD) National Training Awards for its work in training companies in winning tenders. [Read more…]
National Procurement Awards Winner
Bid Management Services is delighted to have been selected as a winner with InterTradeIreland at the 2012 National Procurement Awards in the category of Best Cross-Organisational Project. This is in recognition of the Go-2-Tender supplier training programme.
The Go-2-Tender programme supports companies win tenders in Ireland and in Northern Ireland, providing information on eTenders, eSourcing NI, and winning government contracts. Pictured are Jenny Williamson of InterTradeIreland receiving the award with MD Joanne Gillen and Dr. Peter Brennan of Bid Management Services.
Even More Procurement Expertise!
Bid Management Services’ procurement expertise has just been further increased, with Managing Director Joanne Gillen recently being conferred with her Certificate in Public Procurement at Trinity College Dublin. Bid Management Services is unique in this level of public buyer insight – offering its clients support in winning tenders and etenders in Ireland and overseas. If you would like to discuss your company’s tendering requirements and win more public sector and government contracts, contact Joanne now.
New eTenders Website Launched
The National Procurement Service today launched the new www.etenders.gov.ie web portal, announcing increased efficiency in the tendering process, as well as more opportunity for SMEs to win tenders in Ireland. Users of the previous eTenders website are required to register on the new portal and to populate the site with company information. Increasingly, tendering will be carried out entirely online using the portal. The new site also offers users the opportunity to be selected for ‘quick quotes’ by buyers for contracts. To maximise your company’s optimum eTenders website portal and increase your tender win rate, see Bid Management Services’ eTenders Profile Building service.
National Training Awards Winner
Bid Management Services is delighted to have been chosen as the winner of the Irish Institute of Training and Development (IITD) National Training Awards 2012 for its work in training companies in winning tenders. [Read more…]
Green Public Procurement
The long awaited Government Action Plan on Green Public Procurement (GPP) has been published.
GPP will cover tenders in the following sectors: construction, energy, transport, food and catering, cleaning products and services, paper, uniforms and other textiles and ICT equipment. The Action Plan seeks to make sure that existing legislative requirements, for example in relation to waste and energy efficiency are factored into future tender competitions. [Read more…]
