The benefits of outsourcing services

Are you wondering how outsourcing services can benefit your business?

Luckily for you, we’re here to explain all about how outsourcing services can improve your business. If you’re on the fence about using outsourcing services, we’re here to give you some of the benefits.

So, what actually is outsourcing?

Outsourcing is when you hire a third party to handle operations or perform a service on your behalf. A business can outsource a task instead of developing them within the organisation. It could be any range of services or tasks.

For example, here at Hudson Outsourcing, we help our clients through the tendering process. From sourcing the tenders, to submitting a winning bid on your behalf. We can take care of the whole process.

Below are five ways that outsourcing services can help benefit your business:

1. Saves you resources, time and money

Outsourcing services can save you a fair amount of money, time and resources. It means you don’t have to hire a full-time employee, saving you on expenses such as training and benefits. You may only need them to do the task every so often. Therefore, outsourcing services can help save expenses as a full-time employee is not needed.

By using an outsourcing business, you can carry on with the running of your company, uninterrupted. Neither you nor your staff has to sacrifice their daily tasks. This optimises the use of not only your time, but theirs.

2. It allows you to focus on your business

Outsourcing services saves you time as mentioned in the point above. With the time saves, you can continue focusing on the core functions of the business. You don’t have to take time out of your busy day. Especially as tenders can take as little as one day to up to three months to complete end-to-end. You might not have the time to do this on top of your daily commitments. That’s exactly why outsourcing services can be a great solution without you having to sacrifice anything.

3. Increases your chances of success

Often, when outsourcing work to an outsourcing company, you gain access to experts in that field. Outsourcing companies are experts that can offer specialised support as it’s their full-time job.

For example, our Bid Writers have over 60 years of collective experience and an 87% success rate. This will increase your chances of success when applying for tenders compared to a first-time applicant. Access to skilled resources means you can be assured a higher quality of the outsourced tasks. This, overall, increases efficiency and your chances of success. Here are two additional ways they can benefit you:

• Access to a talent pool

You are able to access a vast talent pool that you otherwise wouldn’t have access to. They know how to best present your business in line with the specification. They will work hard to get the bid submitted not only on time but early and error-free. This can take a considerable amount of worry out of your life.

• Bid design

Not only this, but they can also make the bid look good. Just because it has certain formatting requirements doesn’t mean it needs to be plain and boring. Bid design is highly underrated and can give you an edge over your competitors. What’s more, is they can help you present a united front. This can be relevant when submitting company CVs. 

Our Vocal division is able to design your bids for you. This can help make sure that your bid stands out from the crowd. 

4. Promotes growth

Outsourcing services can promote growth within your business. Particularly if you’re looking for Bid Writers to complete tenders. Securing new business contracts can allow you to grow your business. It offers a significant return on investment (ROI). If you are successful tendering for contracts, you’ll gain more experience. More experience means you can tender for bigger contracts. The bigger the contracts, the bigger your business can grow.

5. Better risk management

When you try to solve something yourself without the knowledge, you could be making costly mistakes. As a bid could take anything from one day to three months to complete end-to-end – that’s a lot of time. If you don’t know what you’re doing, that’s a lot of time distracted from you and your employee’s regular job.

If you look to solve this yourself internally, you may end up hiring someone that isn’t suitable. You may not have enough work to justify keeping the person in-house. Thus, outsourcing to experts allows you to better manage the risk across your business without financial loss.

Remember

One thing to remember when using outsourcing services is that they may need additional information from you. Yes, they may be an expert in their field – outsourcing solutions – but they’re not an expert in your business. They will likely need your input and information on your business in order to create the best possible service. Working together will help ensure the best possible outcome.

In summary 

Companies often turn to outsourcing services for a number of reasons. These include lower costs, improved efficiency and access to experts. Outsourcing services can do the task faster, better and cheaper than hiring someone to do it in house.

Other benefits of outsourcing include better risk management. It allows you and your employees to not get distracted from their day job. Bids can take a lot of time to produce. Anywhere from 24 hours to three months, depending on the size. Outsourcing this will enable you to better manage your time. You can carry on knowing that your bid is in safe hands with experts.

By working together, outsourcing companies can help you win work. Not just that, they can help your business grow. Their expertise, combined with your knowledge of your business, can result in a significant ROI.

Outsourcing allows for the task to be completed by experts. They do it for their job. Your odds will be a lot better than they would be if you do it yourself as a first-timer. Here at Hudson Outsourcing, we can manage your whole tendering journey.

Don’t just take it from us. The testimonials from our clients speak for themselves:

“From our first contact, Hudson were brilliant.

After a short conversation, they quickly grasped the basics of our business and sector in which we operate. Jonny and the team took the stress and hassle away from us and we are very happy to say that we were awarded the first contract that we collaborated on.

We would highly recommend Hudson and look forward to future endeavours together.”

Nick Sheehan – Sales Director – iLine Technologies

“Daniel and the team were incredibly professional and delivered a very high level of service with our tender application.

Unfortunately, we found out about the opportunity at the last minute, which meant that we required a very tight turnaround and the team went the extra mile for us to ensure that it was ready on time within the stipulated deadline. The application proved to be successful, and we are delighted with the outcome.

Could not recommend any higher.”

Nick Steiert, Managing Director – Invasion ltd

When it comes to outsourcing tenders, we can help with the complete process.

How can Hudson Outsourcing help your business?

Now you know all about the benefits of outsourcing services, but what does this mean for your company?

Here at Hudson Outsourcing, we offer an outsourced approach to the tendering process. From sourcing the tenders to writing your response to submitting the bid, we’ll take care of it all.

We have six divisions in total, each focused on a different aspect of growing your business. We want to help you Discover, Succeed, Procure, and be Vocal all while helping you learn via Alpha and develop with Hudson Labs.

Need help searching for bids?

You may be wondering where you can find tenders for your business. There’s no shortage of websites offering multi-sector tendering opportunities and leads. Ideally, you should be searching for a sector-specific site that posts all unique, public and private sector opportunities.

At Hudson Discover, we house 11 sector-specific RFP-tracking portals.  One centralized and easy-to-navigate portal can help you save time, streamlining the process.

These consist of:

• Creative RFPs & Bids
• Healthcare RFPs & Bids
• Facilities RFPs & Bids
• Construction RFPs & Bids
• Technology RFPs & Bids
• Logistics RFPs & Bids
• Research RFPs & Bids
• Consultancy RFPs & Bids
• HR RFPs & Bids
• Finance RFPs & Bids
• Hospitality RFPs & Bids

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 contracts 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 categorized 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 RFP related.

What opportunities can I expect from a bid search on one of the above portals?

We host all kinds of bids in both the public and private sectors. These are inclusive of, but aren’t limited to:

• Open RFPs
• Restricted procedures
• Competitive dialogs
• Negotiated bidding procedures
• Innovation partnerships
• Single supplier contracts
• Framework agreements
• Dynamic Purchasing Systems

Now you know how find tenders for your business, you may be wondering how to write a bid. Well, luckily for you, our sister company, Hudson Succeed, 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 bidding or aren’t seeing results – they can help. There are four bid writing packages available:

• RFP Writing

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.

• RFP Mentor

RFP Mentor can give your bid response a once over before you submit. The Bid Writing Team will analyse your response, notifying you of any errors prior to submission.

• RFP Ready

A 4-week program for those who have never tendered before. The program will develop your branded corporate literature and case studies. Our team will advise you on what bidding opportunities you should go for and guide you through your bidding response.

• RFP Improvement

The RFP Improvement package can help those who have bid 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.

Vocal

Our support doesn’t end there! Our creative content agency, Vocal, are on hand to help.

The Vocal Team are not afraid to stand up and be heard. And we make sure our clients aren’t either! From small, micro businesses to large organizations, we are vocal about the things that make your business unique.

Our creative service is dedicated to growing your business through striking and thought-provoking content. Our team specialize in six areas, including:

• Copywriting
• Marketing
• Branding
• Websites
• Design
• Illustration.

If you’d like to know more about what we can do for your business, introduce yourself to the team!

Contact us today to find out more.

Find more helpful tips and advice in our blogs. We cover topics including:

• The outsourcing process
• Advantages to outsourcing work
• How to find the best tender websites
• Bidding on government contacts in the UK
• United Kingdom tenders
• Blue light tenders
• Public procurement in the UK
• Government tenders
• Public contracts in England
• e-Tender websites
• And many more.