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Public Contracts Scotland Scheduled Downtime - 1st May 2025

Public Contracts Scotland has announced that Scheduled Downtime will take place on Thursday 1 May 2025  from 17:30 until 20:00. The time is needed time to run essential maintenance on the infrastructure behind the service and apologise in advance for any inconvenience that this may cause.

The biggest learning curve in tendering is understanding the time, energy, and resources that go into creating a winning bid. 

The more planning you do before writing your bid, the easier you’ll find it when you begin your response, so its important to note when bidding sites such as Public Contracts Scotland is not available to factor into your planning.

The Supplier Development Programme is running their Planning Your Bid – Time and Resources webinar on Thursday 8 May 2025, at 10:30am.  

This training will walk you through the steps of how to plan and manage your bid. From capture planning to forming a bid team (this doesn’t necessarily need to be a full team; it could be one person if they have the right skills) to making key decisions. 

One of SDP’s expert trainers will also show an example of a Bid Time Plan and how to complete it. 

Overview of what you will learn: 

• What work can be done pre-tender to make the process of creating the bid less stressful 
• How to make objective decisions while managing a bid 
• How to create a bid time plan

At the end of the session, there will be an interactive Q&A session where you will have the opportunity to ask any burning questions you may have. As well as the chance to hear what other SME businesses in Scotland have to say. 

Book your free place https://www.sdpscotland.co.uk/events/14-planning-your-bid-time-and-resources-1832/