Tender help

[MRES]

Could give him some XL tickets, heard they are going cheap

 

[tomweston]

MRES.

drop me a line at [email protected] I may have some exemplar documents you may be able to use.

Yours tome weston

 

[johnnyb]

mres.
You are right about presenting a good honest quote, but many many times that we have presented, basically a full and detailed quote and found that we were only making the numbers up, is unreal, and all your time and effort counts for nothing.
What we do is, ask if any other contractors are quoting have we all been given the same spec, as you could be quoting top of the range equipment and the others may not, and guess what, they will get the job, i will guarentee it.
Work the job out, and give an initial figure and then if you are there and there abouts, when they come back to you, then you can give them how you arrived at the said quote figure, you have not shown your full hand from the off-set, as you, and this does happen, you may well have done all the graft for someone else.

 

[matt456]

Depending on the site you may also need to add plant on i.e. scaffold tower for inside, cherry picker for outside lights. Although it may not be that geared up on health an safety. They are expensive to hire and you should bear them in mind just in case.
matt

 

[petegibbons]

MRES.

drop me a line at [email protected] I may have some exemplar documents you may be able to use.

Yours tome weston

Tom,

If you did have any documents as an example, I'd be most grateful if you could send me a copy to, it all helps.

Thanks in advance, peter

 

[tomweston]

Pete - drop me an eMAil to [email protected] and I'll sanitise what I've got.

I'll also pull some stuff of my companys internal site - they specialise in signal maintenance so there should be some crossover - working at heigth etc...

Tom Weston

 

[Paul_Rawlinson]

How do you pick up tenders in the first place?

 

[tomweston]

Paul.

All Governemt bodies within the EU are mandated to procure goods and services through OJEU - basically the European Journal - it means if you so wish, you could bid for contaracts anywhere in the EU.

The tender will come out to OJEU if it's more than £155,000. You will have to naswer a PQQ (Pre Qual Questionaire) then some six weeks later you will be invited to tender and it's usually awarded 3 to 6 months after the tender is submitted.

You can view all EU Tenders at TED - Tenders Electronic Daily - just google it - enter the filelds you are interested in and away you go.

Also all local authorities should have a small business unit - they look to work with their community.

Government work is good work - but it is time consuming, you have to jump through many hoops and it has frustratingly long time scales and they want ever more paper work - so be warned.

Yours Tom Weston

 

[Paul_Rawlinson]

Thanks tomweston, will look into that.

How can i target industrial work? at the moment all i do is domestic and dying to get my teeth into somethin big again

Paul

 

[tomweston]

Hi Paul.

It's all to do with branding! What value do you offer - look to risk or the loss of something rather than gain or enhancemnet.

You wouldnt thank anyone if they rang you at 2 in the morning to offer you free tyeres for your car. But, if someone rang you up saying someone is trying to steal the tyres from your car, you woukld be most grateful!

With industrial its about service - you must understand their needs - money is secondary - you will still have to be tight on price - but you must show value - otherwise you are just competing on price and there is only way that will go - down.

I'll get something off to you ASAP - just putting a presentation and bid at the moment so it'll be next week before I can get back to you.

Your Tom Weston