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Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF) Wave 2.1 – Are you ready to apply?

The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) launched the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund to enable the upgrading of social housing in England which are currently below Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) C. This round of the competition, Wave 2.1, will see £800 million of funding available to local authorities, combined authorities, registered providers of social housing and registered charities

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New Senior Management Arrangements at AM Bid

AM Bid, Scotland’s largest bid and tender specialist, is pleased to announce the promotion of Chantelle Seaborn to Bid Development Director as part of a senior management team restructure. Having joined the firm nearly two years ago, Chantelle steps up from the role of Senior Bid Manager. She brings experience of the housing and heritage sectors, and of growing a

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Interview with Will Page, Former Chief Economist – Spotify

As the author of Tarzan Economics: Eight Principles for Pivoting Through Disruption, Will Page is a music and economics expert who gives advice on how to pivot businesses and swing to the next vine when the current one is withering. In this article, we cover some of the insights that Will shared with us through his experiences as the former

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How to Bid Better

Do you want to boost your business growth through successful bids, tenders and proposals? Then why not watch our latest Webinar focused on how you can make quick changes to improve your bids and win more public contracts. Bidding and tendering for new contracts is becoming increasingly competitive. This Webinar focused on how you can improve your bid win rate

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Key takeaways from Housing 2022 – Europe’s largest housing festival

CIH Housing has just wrapped its 2022 event with over 9,000 guests registering to attend over the three days, over 450 speakers and more than 300 sponsors and exhibitors, this was a must-attend event for landlords, social housing providers, and anyone in the housing sector supply chain. As an organisation with deep roots in the sector, AM Bid were in

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Bidding to provide digital transformation

Digital transformation is the integration of digital technology into all areas of a business to enhance how they deliver value to their customers. As the world grows increasingly digitized, many organisations including public sector bodies are feeling the pressure to adapt in order to remain relevant as managing supply chain disruptions, time to market pressures and changing customer expectations becomes

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Resident engagement in bid responses

The private sector has long understood that great customer service is driven by a customer-centric mindset, spending millions to understand what their customers’ needs and expectations are and designing services to meet them. This was not always the approach taken by the public sector, however as they and their service users became more aware of the need for customer engagement,

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Diversity and inclusivity in bid responses

As the world grows more connected and demographics shift, there is an ever-increasing expectation on businesses to demonstrate diversity and inclusiveness, in their workplace, their supply chain, and in how they interact with their end users. Study after study demonstrates that diversity is a good thing, driving creativity and innovation in decision-making, boosting productivity and creating greater opportunities for professional

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The Procurement Bill – What’s New?

Leaving the EU provided the UK with the responsibility and opportunity to overhaul the public procurement regulations. The Procurement Bill is intended to shake up how the public sector procures its strategic goods and services, making it quicker, simpler, and more transparent. The wide-ranging changes encompass new procurement processes, greater transparency, a renewed focus on social outcomes, supply chain engagement,

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Maximise your time during bids

The first truth of bidding is that it takes time. Even for moderately simple tenders, putting a high-quality bid submission together requires a sustained, concentrated effort, co-ordination between different parts of the business, and a lot of resource management. A typical tender submission lasts around 4-6 weeks which is theoretically plenty of time to put together a coherent and compelling

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