The Workforce Alliance has now published its tender documents for framework RM6333 for international healthcare professional recruitment and associated services.  The following document provides a short overview for this bid to aid bid/no bid decisions.  It also provides details on our pricing and services. Critical Timescales ITT Issued – 15th August 2022 Deadline for Receipt […]

CCS Permanent Recruitment Framework After our meeting with the CCS on 22nd January, we have gathered some new information about the planned structure, lotting strategy and timescale of this tender. Originally advertised as being published in January, we have been advised that it will now be released in the first 2 weeks in February.  The […]

The CPP National Clinical Staffing Framework tender has recently been published (submission deadline 19th April 2016) and it’s demanding a lot of documented policies and procedures! Possibly the largest piece of work is putting together the verification, policy and procedure documents required in Annex B7.  These are not only questions that you can pass or […]

There are lots of awards about at the moment, but sadly it’s often not the best company that wins them, but the one with the most well written and compelling awards nominations.  So here’s some advice to help you showcase your business and win those prestigious accolades! Bear in mind that the judges have to […]

Now that summer is over, if the trend of the past 5 years continues, public sector recruitment bids will come thick and fast from now until the end of the year.  Some significant frameworks are already mid tender, with Procurement for Housing and Scottish Procurement, but the big ones are yet to drop. Here we […]

You’ll often see a tender opportunity that on the surface looks really interesting, but writing tenders is incredibly time consuming and expensive so it’s vital that you are selective and only bid for business that: You’ve got a good chance of winning That fits with your core business and that you have a proven track […]

Diversity questions in tenders are often viewed with scepticism by recruiters, however tendering processes are increasingly weighted in favour of those organisations with diversity initiatives in place, therefore by improving your approach to diversity, you should also be able to improve your tender results! We’ve therefore grilled Dawn Milman-Hurst, a leading Diversity Consultant and the […]

I review tenders written by recruitment agencies for a living, and the single most common mistake I see is poor use of the copy and paste function in PQQs, tenders and proposals. If I can spot a “set piece” which has been pasted into a tender a hundred miles off, you can be sure that […]

The worst time to build your library of company information and update your policies to support recruitment tender writing is when you’re actually writing a tender! When you’re up against a tight deadline, wouldn’t it be nice to know you have current and compliant information to help you answer the questions and populate the appendices? […]

Rule No 1: Choose just ONE tender notification service – otherwise you’re paying multiple times for the same service! Finding tenders isn’t hard….the public sector ones are all advertised on the internet and there are any number of tender notification services which cost anything from nothing to £1,000+ per annum. The first thing to be […]