Tenders come in all shapes and sizes but there a few essential points to keep in mind to ensure you are putting your best foot forward to win. Ask yourself the following questions and you and your team will be on the road to successfully winning your next tender.

Why is stakeholder identification so important in a projects success? Ask yourself, how do you plan to communicate when you don’t know first who you are communicating with?

When getting ready to engage with your stakeholders, it’s common to start calculating all the time you’ll need to spend on engagement activities. Face-to-face community information sessions, workshops and meetings all take significant time to set-up, promote, run, record, pack-up and debrief. Combine these with other tools such as online engagement and surveys and your mental tally of hours ‘doing engagement’ can quickly add up.

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