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How to Use Contracts Finder Effectively
Most suppliers set up a Contracts Finder account and never look at it again. Here's how to actually use it — searches, alerts, award notices, and the things it won't tell you.
ReadHow to Find the Right CPV Codes for Your Business
CPV codes sound technical. They're not. Here's how to identify the codes that actually match what you do — and why using the wrong ones means missing contracts that were made for you.
ReadHow to Write a Winning Bid: 10 Principles
Bid writing isn't creative writing. It's structured persuasion — and most bids fail not because of weak delivery, but weak communication. These 10 principles fix that.
ReadHow to Write a Social Value Response That Scores Highly
Social value sections get the worst answers in most bids. Not because suppliers don't care — but because they don't know what evaluators are actually looking for.
ReadHow to Build a Bid Library (And Why It Wins Contracts)
The best bid writers don't start from scratch. They have a library of tried-and-tested answers they refine over time. Here's what belongs in one and how to start.
ReadHow to Read a Contract Notice
A contract notice tells you everything you need to know to decide whether to bid — if you know what to look for. Most people miss the signals buried in the boilerplate.
ReadHow to Answer the Financial Standing Section of a PQQ
Financial standing is the section that eliminates more SMEs than any other part of a PQQ. Here's what buyers are actually checking — and how to handle it if your numbers are tight.
ReadHow to Approach a Tender You've Never Won Before
Everyone has a first time bidding for a particular contract type. Here's how to approach it without pretending you have experience you don't — and how to be competitive anyway.
ReadBuilding a Pipeline: Why Winning Contracts Is a Numbers Game
If you're relying on any single tender to save your quarter, your pipeline strategy is broken. Public sector business development is a volume game — here's how to structure it.
ReadWhy Public Sector Procurement Doesn't Stop in a Recession
When private sector clients tighten budgets, public sector contracts keep coming. Here's why — and why economic downturns are actually a good time to build a public sector pipeline.
ReadThe 10 Biggest Bid Writing Mistakes (And How to Avoid Them)
Most bids don't fail because the supplier can't do the work. They fail because the bid doesn't communicate it. These 10 mistakes are behind the majority of unsuccessful submissions.
ReadFramework vs Open Tender: Which Should You Target?
Some businesses chase every open tender. Others focus entirely on getting onto frameworks. The right answer depends on your sector, your size, and where you are in your public sector journey.
ReadWhy SMEs Lose Government Contracts (And How to Stop)
Small businesses win government contracts every day. But there are four specific, fixable mistakes that cost SMEs bids they could have won. Here's what they are.
ReadThe Real Cost of Missing a Tender Deadline
Missing a tender deadline isn't just a lost bid. It's lost revenue, a wasted window, and in some markets, waiting 3-4 years for the contract to come back around.
ReadWhy Most Tender Alerts Are a Waste of Time
If your inbox fills with tender alerts every morning and you ignore most of them, the problem isn't the volume. It's the matching. Here's why keyword alerts fail — and what actually works.
ReadPost-Brexit Procurement: How UK Rules Now Differ from the EU
Three years on from OJEU being replaced by Find a Tender, the UK's procurement rules have diverged meaningfully from the EU's. Here's what's different — and what it means if you bid in both markets.
ReadWhat Changed When the Procurement Act 2023 Came Into Force
24 February 2025. That's the date UK procurement law changed. If you're still bidding as if it's PCR 2015, here's your catch-up.
ReadThe Procurement Act 2023: Everything Suppliers Need to Know
The biggest change to UK procurement law in a decade came into force in February 2025. Here's what actually changed — and what it means for suppliers bidding on public contracts today.
ReadUK Procurement Thresholds: What's Changed for 2025
Procurement thresholds were updated in February 2025. Here are the new numbers — and what they mean for which contracts you need to look at, and where.
ReadWhat an AI Fit Score Actually Means (And Why It Saves You Hours)
RevnIQ gives every tender a fit score from 0 to 100. Above 80 means it was practically written for you. Below 40 means move on. Here's how the score is calculated — and what to do with it.
ReadKeyword Matching vs Semantic AI: Why It Matters for Tender Alerts
Two tender alert tools can be monitoring the same portals, picking up the same contracts — and giving you completely different results. The difference is in how they match. Here's why it matters.
ReadHow AI Is Changing the Way Businesses Find Tenders
Keyword alerts have been the default for 20 years. AI is making them look like sending a fax. Here's what the shift from keyword matching to semantic intelligence actually means for suppliers.
ReadCentral Government Contracts: How the Spend Works
Central government spends around £100 billion a year with external suppliers. Most of it is invisible to most businesses. Here's how the money flows — and where smaller suppliers can get in.
ReadHow to Get on a Crown Commercial Service Framework
CCS frameworks are the fast lane to thousands of public sector buyers. But getting on one takes preparation — and not all frameworks are worth the effort. Here's how to approach it.
ReadWinning Council Contracts: What Local Authorities Actually Want
Councils are the biggest buyers of local services in the UK. They're also the most varied — what wins a contract in one borough can fail in another. Here's what consistently works.
ReadHow to Win NHS Contracts: A Supplier's Guide
The NHS spends over £30 billion a year with external suppliers. Getting a slice of it means understanding how NHS procurement actually works — which is different from central government in ways that matter.
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