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Our articles are written to help you navigate public sector tendering, offering advice and guidance to improve your tender bid writing skills, where to look for opportunities and how to improve your chances of winning public sector contracts. We also cover news and updates about Frameworker, celebrating our achievements and successes as well as linking you to our latest content.

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Performance Review 2023

After another busy year, we’ve finally received data on our 2023 outcomes in order to give you our performance review for last year [continue reading]

G-Cloud 14 is LIVE

It’s the G-Cloud season again and once more, applications opened for the 14^th iteration of this digital framework [continue reading]

Performance Review 2022

After a busy year, we’ve crunched the numbers to give you our performance review for 2022 [continue reading]

G-Cloud 13 Results

Having extended the G-Cloud 12 framework due to Covid, 2021 gave us a break from the usual [continue reading]

How to become a contract negotiation pro?

Owning and operating a small business can be rewarding, but certain parts of the job can be challenging. [continue reading]

Are you going Net Zero?

How will your organisation help the council meet its carbon reduction targets by 2050? [continue reading]

Check Out Our 2020 Performance Review

A new year and a new performance review. That time has come around again [continue reading]

G-Cloud 2020 - Results

This year’s G-Cloud applications were a little delayed due to obvious reasons, however applications [continue reading]

Tendering for Construction Contracts

There are a number of general approaches to writing a successful bid. We always say that to win [continue reading]

Covid-19 and the Procurement Rules

In March 2020, the UK government published an update to the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 [continue reading]

Check Out Our 2019/2020 Performance Review

Performance reviews are best practice for any business looking to grow, especially [continue reading]

Making Public Sector Tendering Easier

The public sector faces many hurdles when it comes to appointing a supplier. First and foremost [continue reading]

The Tender Academy: Our first online course is here!

We are delighted to announce the launch of our first online course covering the basics of public sector tendering in the UK [continue reading]

G-Cloud Success

With the G-Cloud results now live, find out how Frameworker did and learn more about the G-Cloud [continue reading]

G-CLOUD 11 - What You Need To Know

As of the 26^th March 2019, the government’s Crown Commercial Services have launched a competition for the latest iteration of their G-Cloud framework. This applies to all suppliers of cloud hosting, support and software services. The deadline for suppliers to apply is the 15^th May 2019 (5pm BST) [continue reading]

SME's UNITE: How small businesses can compete with the rising tide of larger public sector contracts

Consortium building to bid for larger contracts in the public sector

Whilst it is true that public sector bodies, particularly smaller district and borough councils, have a number of contracts with SMEs to deliver goods, works and services, there is a trend throughout UK local authorities that sees them trying to group smaller contracts together into single, larger contracts. This is happening up and down the country [continue reading]

APPLYING FOR PUBLIC CONTRACTS: Where to look and how to start

looking for public sector tender opportunities tenders

Sometimes the most difficult thing is knowing where to start. Hunting for tender opportunities can be a slow and laborious task if you don’t know where to look. The big, high value tender opportunities are available on TED (Tender Electronic Daily), which is run by the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) and publication on this site is a legal requirement for contracting authorities, such as your local council [continue reading]

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