Views & think pieces

Prompted by Bidding Quarterly's 'All I Want For Christmas' theme for Issue 20, Nigel Dennis spells out what the BidWrite team would like to see wrapped up and placed under their professional Christmas tree every year – creating a blueprint for a high performing ‘bid sleighing’ team!

At first glance, public relations and tendering seem worlds apart. But if you scratch the surface, you’ll quickly see some shared traits. These translate into advice that works equally well for public relations and tendering alike.

Setting an aspirational mindset and culture creates expectations, encourages action and aligns a workforce. But what then? In part 2 of 2, Peter Blunden looks deeper into how a left-shifted focus, aligned with your organisation's bidding function, leads to sustained business success.

BidWrite's GM Growth Peter Blunden explains how companies who adopt a left-shifting and customer-centric approach to tendering will reap substantial rewards – smarter investments, a strategically aligned pipeline of opportunities, an engaged and focused workforce, and of course, significant revenue growth.

While writing his father-of-the-bride speech recently, Principal Consultant Mark Riley also asked ChatGPT to write a version based on his prompts. But can a generative AI tool even begin to replicate the insight, context, emotion and soul of Mark’s own heartfelt speech? Or will humans and technology always need to work together for the best

Spooky season is upon us, and in the spirit of Halloween, we thought it’d be a bit of fun to ponder the dark side of bidding. Written by Bid Consultant and Halloween-fanatic Zoe Simpson, this tendering horror story is a fictitious, highly dramatized example of when everything that can go wrong, does go wrong during

After reading an article where a Labor party senator described 'power maps' as an attempt to “inappropriately influence the public service” during the tender process, Natalie Schroeder and Nigel Dennis explain why stakeholder mapping is actually a logical part of the standard pre-tender ‘positioning’ process – essential to building strong relationships and preparing persuasive bids.

Tendering is a lucrative industry, but it's full of misconceptions. BidWrite CEO Nigel Dennis joins Karalee Katsambanis on 6PR's Money News to discuss the biggest mistake he sees businesses make when tendering, and how outsourcing to specialists and embracing AI technology might help.

If you create a narrative that speaks to your buyer's pain points and issues, and offer a compelling solution to their problem, you’re well on the way to beating your competitors. Andrew Yallop explains how story telling in bids and applying strategic narrative principles can make your next tender submission more memorable.