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Winning eTenders

18th February 2015 By Bid Management Services

The Irish government website for finding Irish tenders, www.etenders.gov.ie lists new government contract opportunities daily.  To ensure that you receive updates on tenders relevant to your business – be it legal tenders, construction tenders, healthcare tenders or IT tenders in Ireland – you must update your eTenders profile to include relevant keywords. [Read more…]

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12 Tendering Tips

1st January 2015 By Bid Management Services

Take a look at our Tendering Tips to help you manage the process or understand how our support and expertise can make all the difference in your tender application.

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Horizon 2020 Grant Writing

21st March 2014 By Bid Management Services

The EU’s ambitious Horizon 2020 funding has a total of €79 billion to allocate to projects over the next 7 years. The amount of funding available for 2014 is €7.8 billion. The Irish government has forecast that Ireland will aim to receive €1.25 billion which marks a huge increase from the €600 million received under the FP7 programme. [Read more…]

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Dos and Don’ts of Tendering – Today FM

8th December 2013 By Bid Management Services

bid-management-services-today-fmBid 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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book

A Must Read…

Written by Peter Brennan and Joanne Gillen, this book explains how buyers and suppliers can take full advantage of a procurement market worth €90 billion over the next five years.>

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Brexit and Public Procurement

7th January 2021

Brexit and Public Procurement: First Impressions from an Irish Supplier Perspective While the media was obsessively distracted by the last-minute Punch & Judy fish negotiations, little or no attention was paid to public procurement arrangements post-Brexit. This is a far bigger sector of economic activity than fish, estimated to account for approx. £290 billion in […] >

Green Start Programme

27th November 2020

Really pleased we have been approved by Enterprise Ireland as a professional service provider under their Green Start Programme. What this means in practice is that we can support EI clients that need strategic advices and practical assistance in bidding for public and private tenders – in Ireland and abroad – where sustainable procurement criteria are […] >

The EPA is developing new guidance for the mandatory use of green pubic procurement (GPP) in Ireland. Embedding GPP in tenders is to be welcomed; it is long overdue. However, the draft guidance document raises a number of important questions as follows.

24th November 2020

The systematic introduction of GPP selection and award criteria into Irish public tenders (over the EU threshold values) will potentially have a higher impact on reducing national GHG emissions and energy consumption than many other actions identified in the National Energy and Climate Action Plan. The draft guidance is described as a ‘Starter Kit’. Would […] >

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