Chance to shine?

ethan

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By both chance and circumstance I have been called on to write and apply for chance to tender for a contract worth up to £30,000,000 over five years. Because this will be the first time I have engaged in such an undertaking, would it be fair to say that after the date of submission, I could class myself as experienced and offer my services to other businesses? I'm trying to think of other employment opportunities.
 
Sounds like something we had an entire department of people doing day in day out...
Just because you do something once doesn't mean you're any good at it.
 
ethan said:
By both chance and circumstance I have been called on to write and apply for chance to tender for a contract worth up to £30,000,000 over five years. Because this will be the first time I have engaged in such an undertaking, would it be fair to say that after the date of submission, I could class myself as experienced and offer my services to other businesses? I'm trying to think of other employment opportunities.
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If you win the contract and it is down to your leadership then yes.

If you are just one of many working on it and writing their bit then no.
 
I'm having to 80% of the work due to staff illness. I do have extensive knowledge as to how the business operates due to me being the head honcho for the regulatory framework.
 
ethan said:
this will be the first time I have engaged in such an undertaking ... class myself as experienced...
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No. Doing one tender does not make you experienced. It means you have experience of doing something once that many other people have done hundreds of times because they're good at it, not through chance or circumstance.
 
Writing tenders as a third party is more marketing than anything.

You'll need subject matter experts to provide the information and then the "polishers" do their bit IME.

We've just tendered for about £25m pounds worth of call centre business using a tender writing contractor.

Basically they got 12 of us in a room, assigned tasks and fact finding to appropriate people. e.g. I took any questions and calcs about staffing levels as Resource Planning Manager, but I needed Ops input to get that right. HR had to pick up the questions around TUPE, which impacted on my staffing plan. I then feed all that to finance to cost out. There were obviously regulatory and IT planning questions etc that i had nothing to do with.

The tender writer basically project managed all that and then flowered up the language, advised on presentation and colour schemes and all that jazz.
 
CapitalOne said:
As a “had sex once gigilo” vs a virgin? We all have to start somewhere!
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Yeah, but we all know we were **** at it the fist time. "Fancy a shag, I've had sex once" said no man ever when trying to chat up a woman.

Same with applying for a (what is the word? Tenderiser?) job and saying I'm an expert, I've done it once.
 
So fair enough, he wont be an expert, as long as he realises once isn’t enough to be considered an expert that’s ok. He can say he’s done it once though! How many competing chancers might just say they’ve done it a hundred times?

So yes, on the point of the thread I am wrong, but in my mind i was right. Too many early “christmas lunches” to blame I fear.
 
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[FnG]magnolia said:
No. Doing one tender does not make you experienced. It means you have experience of doing something once that many other people have done hundreds of times because they're good at it, not through chance or circumstance.
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To be honest, this will be the second time. However, it will be the first time where I am having to do 80% of the work myself because of my product and service knowledge. This is where the element of chance and circumstance comes in, otherwise I would just be working as part of the team.

You'll need subject matter experts to provide the information and then the "polishers"
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By this criteria it sounds better to describe myself as a subject matter expert: which is what I am. Polisher doesn't sound very good though ;)
 
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Tender writing is such a pain. It's all in the wording, that's all. That's why they have people experienced in writing tenders for different industries. You could be the biggest expert and have the best company, doesn't mean you'll win the tender unless it ticks their stupid boxes.
 
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