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Overview & Pricing for HSC International Permanent Recruitment for NHS in Northern Ireland
Critical Timescales Deadline for receipt of clarification questions – 3pm, 7th April 2021 Deadline for submission of the tender – 3pm, 14th April 2021 Registration & Accessing the Documents To access the documents and complete your tender, you must follow the instructions on the following link: https://etendersni.gov.uk/epps/cft/prepareViewCfTWS.do?resourceId=3339364 Tender Breakdown Complete Eligibility envelope (applicable to all…
How to Write About Social Value in Bids & Tenders
Social Value has become 2021’s hot topic in tenders – in fact in public sector tenders, at least 10% of the marks will now be allocated to social value, so getting this right will not only create long-term positive impacts for local communities, the environment and other external third parties – it will also help…
How to Find Recruitment Tenders in the UK
I'm slightly afraid to mention the word “Brexit”, but I'm going to, as it's all change as far as finding UK recruitment tenders goes! Since 1st January 2021, OJEU no longer publishes new UK tenders and this function has been taken over by the Government's new “Find a Tender” service for high value contracts (usually…
Freebies – Free Documents available to Download from Brunton Bid Writing
At Brunton Bid Writing, we’ve decided to put aside some time in January to update some of our documents, and this includes all of the “freebies” on our website. We’ve now got the following documents available for you to download free of charge: 10 Top Tips for Writing Recruitment Tenders – as it sounds, this…
Transforming Public Procurement – Green Paper Overview
Just before Christmas, the Government published a green paper on “Transforming Public Procurement”. This is designed to “overhaul their outdated public procurement regime” and coincides with the UK taking control of its own public sector procurement post Brexit. This is a green paper, so anything could change during the consultation period between now and 10th…
NHS Wales – Agency Nurses Tender Overview
This tender is to supply agency nurses, midwives, ODPs and care assistants Critical Timescales Deadline for submission of the PQQ (SQ) – 4pm, 14th January 2021. Registration & Accessing the Documents To access the documents, you must first register on the following link: https://etenderwales.bravosolution.co.uk/home.html You can then follow the instructions in the documents and on…
What Buyers Love and Hate!
I’ve recently spent a bit of time with a couple of highly credible and experienced freelance procurement professionals and I know you won’t believe it, but they were human! What’s more they had a sense of humour, weren't “jobsworths” and contrary to popular belief they don’t spend their evenings and weekends plotting new ways to…
Time to Review of your Tender Strategy?
This month we have a guest blog written by experienced procurement professional Chris Williams MCIPS APMP. Chris's background in both public and private sector procurement (includng over 6 years with the Crown Commercial Service) gives us an invaluable glimpse into the expectations of our buyers, so we can gain ideas from a different perspective on…
Hints & Tips for Answering HTE Tender Questions
Having recently completed the HTE National & International Permanent Recruitment ITT, we developed a great model for answering HTE’s qualitative tender questions. This model will help you to secure maximum points on the recently published HTE Total Workforce Solutions II ITT. HTE has been very helpful on this tender by telling us EXACTLY what they…
Just Answer the Question!
In this blog I share my top tip for writing a winning bid – and that is to answer the question……no more and no less. Sounds pretty simple doesn’t it? Yet, when analysing client bids, I constantly see copy and pasted answers that comprise reams of text from a bid library that somebody wrote in…
HTE Total Workforce Solutions II Tender Overview
PQQ (SQ) – GENERAL Critical Timescales Deadline for receipt of clarification questions – 20th January 2020. Deadline for HTE to provide responses to clarification questions – 23rd January 2020. Deadline for submission of the PQQ (SQ) – 2pm, 29th January 2020. Please note that HTE uses both PQQ and SQ in their terminology in this…
HealthTrust Europe (HTE) Perm & International Perm Tender Overview
PQQ (SQ) – GENERAL Critical Timescales Deadline for receipt of clarification questions – 1pm, 11th December 2019 Deadline for HTE to provide responses to clarification questions – 16th December 2019 Deadline for submission of the PQQ (SQ) – 1pm, 23rd December 2019 Please note that HTE uses both PQQ and SQ in their terminology in…
