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RFP Alerts: Staying Up to Date with Opportunities
Insight | 17th February 2022
Here’s how RFP alerts can help you stay up to date with tender opportunities
So, you have questions about RFP alerts. Perhaps you’re wondering what they are or how they can benefit you and your business. Whatever your reason for being here, we aim to answer any questions you have about RFP alerts.
At Hudson Outsourcing, we value learning and want to teach as many people as we can about the tendering process. With an 87% bid success rate and over 60 years of experience, we’re confident we can help you.
What are RFP alerts?
RFP alerts are notifications that some e-tender websites will use to alert users to new opportunities. They may also notify you of awarded contracts, depending on what it is you’re looking for. You’ll be able to receive an email straight to your inbox for new defence contracts, or healthcare contracts, for example.
Hudson Discover
Our division, Hudson Discover, has 11 sector-specific portals to help businesses find RFP bids. Users of our portals can receive daily notifications when we upload new tendering opportunities to our portals.
Our portals are also unique as we don’t use CPV codes or algorithms when searching for and uploading our tenders. Every opportunity on our portals has been found and listed by one of our Opportunity Trackers. So, you can rest assured that it has been categorised correctly and won’t be missed!
Why should you use RFP alerts?
The primary reason for why you should use RFP alerts is that it keeps you up to date with opportunities. Those not using them may not see tenders until it’s too late, or they may not see them at all! The last thing you want is to miss the perfect opportunity for your business.
By using RFP alerts, you’ll be notified when a suitable opportunity is uploaded to the portal. Think of it like a job search site. You can set alerts for jobs within your field. Then you’ll receive emails to notify you of available opportunities that fit your criteria. Bid notification services are very similar.
Since using RFP alerts will notify you of an opportunity quickly, you’ll have more time to prepare. Writing a bid can take a lot of time and resources. So, the more time you have to get it perfect, the better. You certainly don’t want to rush your bid as this will result in mistakes more often than not. In summary – the sooner you know about a bid, the sooner you can get your proposal done!
Summary
To recap, RFP alerts are notifications you can receive from tender tracking sites when new opportunities become available.
Our tender tracking portals through our Hudson Discover Division are sector specific. These 11 portals can streamline the process of finding tenders, and you can receive RFP alerts. So, you’ll know as soon as an opportunity becomes available that may be perfect for your business.
The reason why RFP alerts are beneficial is that they allow you to consider an opportunity with plenty of time. You can begin to prepare your bid as soon as you are notified of the tender. If you don’t use RFP alerts, you may never see an opportunity. You may see it when manually searching but this could happen too late, and you won’t have time to prepare.
Essentially, using RFP alerts keeps you up to date and ensures you don’t miss an opportunity!
If you still have questions about RFP alerts, feel free to contact us as we are always happy to help.
Need help searching for tenders?
Hudson Discover is our tender tracking division where we house 11 sector-specific tendering portals. One centralised and easy-to-navigate portal can help you save time, streamlining the process.
These consist of:
- Creative Tenders
- Healthcare Tenders
- Facilities Tenders
- Construction Tenders
- Technology Tenders
- Logistics Tenders
- Research Tenders
- Consultancy Tenders
- HR Tenders
- Finance Tenders
- Hospitality Tenders
Once signed up, you’ll have access to your own dedicated Account Manager. They’ll be able to answer any questions you may have about public sector contracts. You’ll also get an email alert when new and relevant tenders are uploaded to your sector.
A subscription to one of our industry-specific portals will include:
- Unlimited portal access. You can browse your industry’s portal to your heart’s content. See the hundreds of opportunities that are available, intuitively categorised and easily accessible.
- A daily email bulletin. When you sign up to a portal, you can choose the specific areas in which you’d like to tender. Then, a daily bulletin is created for you. It includes all the relevant opportunities that have been posted to the portal that day, straight to your inbox.
- A dedicated Account Manager. They’ll handle any questions or queries you may have about the portal.
- A free 20-minutes phone consultation with a Bid Writer. Our expert bid consultants will chat with you for 20-minutes about anything tender related.
What opportunities can I expect from a tender search on one of the above portals?
We host all kinds of tenders in both the public and private sectors. These are inclusive of, but aren’t limited to:
- Open tenders
- Restricted procedure tenders
- Competitive dialogues
- Negotiated tendering procedures
- Innovation partnerships
- Single supplier contracts
- Framework agreements
- Dynamic Purchasing Systems
Now you know how to accurately perform a tender search, you may be wondering how to write a bid. Well, luckily for you, our Hudson Succeed division, are experts in bid writing.
They have over 60 years of bid writing experience and an 87% success rate. Whether you’re completely new to tendering or aren’t seeing results – they can help. There are four bid writing packages available:
Once you’ve found a tender you’d like to go for, send it over to us. One of our Bid Writers will write the tender response for you. They’ll provide a full Tender Writing breakdown and even submit it on your behalf.
Tender Mentor can give your tender response a once over before you submit. The Bid Writing Team will analyse your response, notifying you of any errors prior to submission.
A 4-week programme for those who have never tendered before. The programme will develop your branded corporate literature and case studies. Our team will advise you on what tendering opportunities you should go for and guide you through your tendering response.
The Tender Improvement package can help those who have tendered before but aren’t seeing results. Our Bid Writers will assess your previous responses and work with you to develop improved content.
Get in touch to find out how we can help your business grow.
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