Avoid Tender Rejection With This Expert Advice

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Avoid Tender Rejection With This Expert Advice
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• The experienced tender writer finds it hard
  enough to get their tender considered after
  applying and following the guidelines, ensuring
  that the lodgement time is met and that they have
  crafted a decent tender response.
• Tender writing requires some skill to prepare a
  great application yet a lot of writers ensure
  their tender response is rejected at the first
  review by making some simple errors.

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• Here are some of the pitfalls you need to avoid
  to ensure your application is not rejected
  without first being serious considered. Remember
  the assessment panel on first review of all the
  responses will be seeking to reject as many as
  possible initially to get down to a manageable
  number and to make the task easier.
• Following are the mistakes that will almost
  certainly see your response put into the NO pile.

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Tender Writing
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Failure to answer every question or tick every
box on the application form

• This might seem just plain ridiculous. How can
  anyone fail to fill out the application form
  completely? Well as stupid as it sounds many
  applications are rejected immediately because the
  application form is not complete.
• How can you deliver services, products, goods,
  equipment, infrastructure or whatever the tender
  offer is if you cant complete an application
  form completely? Attention to detail when
  completing your tender response is vital.

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Prepare the response using the wrong font,
exceeding word/character limits etc

• Yes some tenders are very specific in that there
  are requirements identified in the tender
  documents regarding what font needs to be used in
  the response, how many words/characters in total
  or in a particular answer.
• While these requirement are clearly outlined in
  the guidelines or the tender specification
  documents some tender writers either fail to read
  them, fail to acknowledge them, plain just ignore
  them or forget to review their response prior to
  lodging to ensure the document is fully compliant
  with requirements.

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• Attach supporting documents not required or fail
  to attach supporting documents that are required.
• Again a very simple but vital issue. Most
  tenders identify what supporting documents are
  required and some tenders are very specific as to
  what can and cant be attached to the response.
  Ensure you attach those documents that must be
  attached and dont attach other documents if the
  tender precludes it.

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Failure to lodge as prescribed

• Some tenders must be lodged electronically via a
  portal, some must be lodged on line, some by
  email, some must be posted and some might require
  hand delivering. Failure to lodge exactly as
  specified will ensure your application is
  rejected.

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Failure to lodge by the tender deadline

• Again very simple and common sense huh? Well not
  quite. Even though deadlines are lodgement
  times/dates are clearly identified in tender
  documents, some applicants must think that
  doesnt apply to them and lodge tenders late. A
  sure fire way of having your application
  IMMEDIATELY rejected.
• So if you want to give your tender a chance,
  ensure you dont make these mistakes. Tender
  writing isnt rocket science but the decent
  tender writer will avoid making simple errors
  that result in all your hard work being a waste
  of time.

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