Do you actively bid or tender for public contracts? Could you improve your chances of success? Are you confident across the various complex procurement procedures? Would you like someone to ask? Do you wish you knew how your Tender would be scored? How valuable to you would this insight be before you submitted your Tender?
Specialist procurement support is available
Chris Cliffe, of CJC Procurement Ltd in Norwich, has 18 years’ experience of public sector procurement. He has written and signed-off hundreds of procurement procedures and ITTs and has scored and evaluated thousands of Tenders. Chris applies this experience in helping businesses beat their competition and to ensure their Tenders get a fair assessment. Chris can help you improve your Tenders and improve your chances of winning public sector contracts!
How it Works
Whilst Chris can support you throughout the end to end bidding process, there are three specific points where external bid review services add most value.
- On receipt of the opportunity, Chris can support you by reviewing the procurement documentation and helping you interpret the questions and response requirements. Chris can help you with clarification questions or even suggest response structures for questions.
- Prior to the deadline for submission of your Tender, Chris can evaluate your draft Tender and indicatively score it and provide you with feedback, comments and suggestions on how to improve your Tender in the final days before submission. This is the most popular service.
- In the event of an unsuccessful bid, Chris can support you in assessing the feedback from the customer to determine whether your Tender has been fairly and objectively assessed, suggesting where improvements are required in future, or whether you have grounds for complaint or challenge.
Flexible Approach
As an independent procurement consultant, these services can be delivered flexibly to work with you and your bid writing processes and/or team.
Reviews can often be scheduled overnight, or over weekends to add maximum value whilst dovetailing with your business hours.
The services are charged at a fixed hourly rate, which can either be on a pay-as-you-use basis or on a retainer basis as appropriate, particularly where clients are keen to ensure their competitive edge over their competition and the service is exclusive for a single client on any given tender opportunity.
A Satisfied Customer
“I engaged Chris with some support as a “Critical Friend” on a large tender. Chris reviewed each stage of our tender submission and provided excellent feedback. His review included ensuring requirements were met, suggestions on how the customer could read or interpret answers and because of his experience & real understanding of public sector procurement he was able to provide exceptional direction for improvements. Chris always delivered on time and his report/feedback was presented to a high standard. Chris takes pride in his work and I found he went over and above what was asked of him on many occasions, he becomes part of your team and acts as one team with you. I would be happy to recommend Chris to any organisation.” Ciara McMillan, Account Director.
Norfolk Chambers of Commerce Member Offer
CJC Procurement Ltd is happy to offer a 25% discount for all new customers who are members of the Norfolk Chambers of Commerce!
Click here to schedule an Introduction Meeting directly or contact Chris via email at [email protected].
About Chris and CJC Procurement Ltd
Chris is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply and is a Chartered Procurement Professional. Chris is a Highly Commended Director of the Year by the Institute of Directors (IoD), East of England region and is the Procurement Ambassador for the IoD Norfolk branch. CJC Procurement Ltd is a member of the Norfolk Chambers of Commerce and has been appointed three years in succession to the Crown Commercial Service G-Cloud framework agreement.
