Events
Training provided by professionals who know how to support you
Our current events programme is on hold due to the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Here at BIZphit, we run a range of training events for clients. These include seminars and master classes, tender and business improvement workshops, all designed to meet the needs of clients. Examples of these are:
- Short seminars for clients covering many different and varied subject areas around ‘tender response’ writing
- Information and ‘update events’ where tendering and procurement rules and regulations have changed
- Master classes as you for prepare for writing winning tender responses
- Grant funding events – please see our grant funding page
- Workshops run externally or internally for clients. We also run closed courses at clients premises.
Contract awareness and bid familiarisation workshops – Next set of dates to be announced soon.
We are running a series of workshop last quarter 2019, details of the workshops will be available here soon. The workshops normally last for two hours and interactive sessions bringing out the major points of the bidding and contract response strategies, practical sessions that will add to your ability to respond professionally to contract alerts. We will also be providing some complimentary resources so you can be a step ahead of your competitors.
Alternatively do get in touch and we will forward details as soon as the booking arrangements are published.
If you have a specific training or course needs then we can help, please send us a message. Please contact us for further details of any training needs or courses we run.
We can provide examples of typical content covered in courses and seminars. For further information please drop us a message. All seminars and workshops are run in Essex, but we will and do accommodate any type of event at a clients choice of venue.
Training Courses
PQQ master course
This is a focused 1 day course on the new PQQ and the requirements for its completion. We provide guidance notes and information specific to the PQQ process. Attendees will gain an insight into the PQQ process and how to complete it successfully, this course includes…
- Bid or no bid decision making
- Mandatory information required for all PQQ submissions
- Understand the key policies that need to be in place to proceed to bid
- How best to answer questions
- Strategy for maximising your score
- Researching your client prior to the bid
ITT requirements
Much like the PQQ Master Course, the ‘ITT Requirements’ course looks at the outline requirements often found in the ITT. Attendees will learn the intricate contents of the ITT and how best to approach the different types of questions that can be found, this course includes…
- Developing a bid strategy
- The importance of developing the realtionship
- Understanding bid requirements
- Pricing strategy
- Planning, preparing and writing a response
- Feedback and continuous improvement
Contract management
This half day course will help businesses to understand the issues of managing a contract across the term of the contract, the importance of management control and key performance indicators, this course will include…
- What does or will the contract demand of you?
- What you must do within the contract
- Maximising sound contract administration
- Preparing to win the rebid
- Minimising contract risk
- Obtaining and maintaining sufficient contract resources
Grand funding event
Event date: Ongoing through 2019 and 2020.
This short two hour event will introduce businesses to the possibilities of Grant funding that is available to businesses for a range of business growth activities.
- Event booking link – Contact us
- There are a number of funding programmes
- In excess of £200 billion available for grant funding across the UK
- Grant funding to help your business grow
- Discuss your funding requirements with experts
- Opportunity to network with other businesses, and grant funding seekers.
Pre-tender healthchecking
This one day course will concentrate on the measures businesses should consider in their preparation to tender for a contract. The importance of pre-checking business readiness before bidding cannot be over emphasised, this course will include the following:
- What pre-tender fitness is
- How pre-fitness checking can significantly help you to win
- What policies you need to have in place
- How to manage ‘Quality’ questions
- How to manage your environmental practice
- Health and Safety management
- How to set about writing your content and answer questions.
You only need to win one contract to increase your turnover, its an excellent way to grow your business, make this your best year yet and grow your business with public sector contracting
Writing tenders and responding to either the PQQ or ITT can take up a lot of time and resources. Many public sector and council tenders can seem quite daunting! You only get one opportunity to bid so you need to maximise your prospects of success. Professional help and advice can significantly increase your chance of winning that lucrative tender.
BIZphit provides a range of professional tender consultancy services, specialising in guiding small & medium size businesses (SMEs) through the tendering process to win tenders. Client testimonials confirm our very high levels of success and customer satisfaction.