Three Challenges to Starting a Business to Tender
Every day the average business owner faces different challenges in the tender process. Several challenges keep on repeating themselves over and over again especially when you are a start-up business or if you opened a company with the specific intention to respond to tenders. These challenges are:
1. Experience
3 unforgivable mistakes when responding to a Bid
We had the privilege to be part of an Evaluation committee for a Government Entity that put out an Invitation to Bid. The Bid was for a fairly technical service and therefor the response to the bid was poor. In fact there were only ten responses to the Invitation to Bid.
10 Essential documents needed to tender
By Werner van Rooyen
12 October 2015
Registering on the Central Supplier Database
On 1 September 2015 the Government's Central Supplier Database was launched by the Minister of Finance Mr Nhlanhla Nene. The idea behind the Central Supplier Database is to centralise supplier's data to simplify Government's procurement processes. It also aims to reduce costs to both Government as well as Suppliers to Government.
10 ways to do Enterprise Development
Enterprise Development is one of the most current buzz phrases in South Africa at the moment. Everybody from Government to Large Corporates to SMME’s must either perform Enterprise Development or must be the beneficiary of Enterprise Development.
The 3 Principles of Tenders in South Africa
By Werner van Rooyen
7 September 2015
Tenders in South Africa are based on three principles:
- Functionality
- Price
- B-BBEE
Functionality
Tenders explained
Each day hundreds of tenders are being advertised but we often only hear about those where things have gone wrong or where the concept has been abused. It gives ‘Tenders’ a stink it doesn’t deserve. In today’s blog, we look at what exactly a tender is.
