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With the Prior Information Notice (PIN) set to close in May 2018, we expect to see the NHS Orthodontic Services documents become available as part of an open procurement release soon.

That’s great news for practices in London – especially those that are reading this post!

Why do we say this? eXceeding has experience working on dental and orthodontic tenders into the NHS.  

Whilst the expression of interest phase (RTL088P), ends soon, it’s now perfect time to engage with a professional bid writing partner to help prepare your submission for this tender process

Crown Commercial Services’ Management ConsultancyTwo (MCF2) is a multi-billion-pound opportunity for those of us working in the management consultancy sector.

Having had extensive experience in supporting our partners in the creation of winning tenders for public sector frameworks, our experts can not only help you secure a place on this framework but also maximise the chances of you generating successful business leads once you’re on it.

Click here to book a call with one of our experts

If you provide cloud-based services and want to sell to the government then listing on G-Cloud is a must.

With sales of nearly £2.9 billion coming via the G-Cloud framework since its inception in 2012 to the end of 2017 it represents a significant opportunity for business.

Although in 2017 almost £500 million of sales were placed with SMEs as part of the G-Cloud framework, the vast majority of G-Cloud suppliers actually delivered nothing at all.

The General Data protection regulation (GDPR) comes into force on 25 May 2018, 2 years since the regulation was made in April 2016.

With the prospect of administrative fines of up to €20 million or 4% of annual global turnover. If it's not high on your radar, it should be.

Are we all compliant and ready for the May implementation?

Do we know our DPO from our BCRs? *

Here at eXceeding we do. Our consultants have been helping our partners plan and implement their GDPR policies and procedures to achieve compliance.

With the announcement by De la Rue on the 22 March 2018 that, on the completion of the current bid cycle, they would no longer be producing the British passport “despite submitting a high quality, competitive bid” we can see that size and history are no guarantee of success.

The target of reducing annual government borrowing has resulted in the whole of Public Sector being in a prolonged and deep spending cut. At eXceeding we regularly face Public Sector procurement teams that do not have sufficient resource available to deliver the mandated organisation transformational procurements within the target timescales.

In recent news, the collapse of the construction and outsourcing company Carillion has left many questions unanswered. Carillion was one of the UK’s biggest contractors for supplying support services to schools, hospitals, prisons and many more. Carillion collapsed during the first few weeks of January 2018, leaving 28,000 staff facing uncertain futures. But it’s not just the employees of Carillion that will be affected. Carillion customers are now having to consider their options to ensure completion of their construction projects or continuation of their support services.

Will you be running OJEU procurements in 2018 and considering securing OJEU-approved procurement consultancy support to deliver the process? If you need to manage a competitive procurement but don’t have the resources at hand to do so, you might have to run another competition first to select the consultancy to support the procurement for you! This can be a distraction and takes time and money - both of which may be scarce.

For any business, no matter what the size, there must be processes and procedures put in place to make sure that everything runs smoothly and efficiently. To do this, businesses can set up an integrated business management software system that assists with the day to day management of their company. These are known as Enterprise Resource Planning systems (ERP).

By far, the most frequent question that eXceeding is asked on a daily basis is how much do we charge for our services. We take time to fully understand our client’s requirements in order that we can answer this question. The cost of responding to a bid can depend dramatically on: