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There's a really helpful analogy that rings true in any situation where you are trying to exert influence: 'don't push on a piece of string'.
The message, of course, is that whilst you can't push, you can pull - and quite strongly - on your string. As anyone who's been fishing will know as well, there has to be some bait to attract the fish's interest. Once hooked, the fisherman will carefully play the fish to land it safe in their keep net.
The analogy works well in tendering.
Push and Pull Selling at Tender
Don't even think about pushy selling at tender. Maybe that works well for you with retail and even your B2B sales where the customer comes to you ready to choose and buy.
Tender selling is a very different kettle of fish! The buyer knows what they want, why and how it fits into their supply chain. They're looking for the best deal but will be indifferent and dispassionate as to whom they buy from.
Your job is to lure them onto your line, get them seriously keen on you as a supplier - and carefully land them, pulling them in through skillful tendering, presentation, negotiation and contract.
What's the Bait in Tendering?
There are FOUR elements that professional buyers look for in tender bids.
Aside from pure commodity buying - where price matters above all - only TWO of these elements are motivating factors: and they will form your bait.
The motivators are your CREDIBILITY and your CAPABILITY because first and foremost, the buyer wants a supplier that they can fully rely on to fulfill their supply chain requirement.
The other two elements are important but only in comparison with what the rest of the market is providing - your COMPLIANCE with supply requirements and your PRICE. These matter of course but largely to the extent that you are in or out of line with market. They don't act as motivators to buy in themselves.
Making Your Bait Tasty
Make sure your bait is particularly tasty by building really strong answers to the motivator questions about your Credibility and Capability, that you will find in every tender.
These questions are where you convince the buyer that you really will do what they want; and that they should believe what you say.
Show, don't tell:
Set out how you do what you do
Make it simple to understand and follow - be trusted in what you say
Break your work down logically
Show why what you do is important and how it contributes to what the buyer wants
Evidence your claims from what other customers say about you
Set out your professional credentials, industry participation, ISO accreditations
If you can, show that you will flex your supply to give strategic gains to the buyer
Mostly it boils down to your Knowhow and Skill
Nearly always, the buyer is setting out to acquire supply know how and skill in an acceptable deal.
Your tender documents are where you convince them that you have strong knowhow and skill and that, other factors being equal on Compliance and Price, they should want to buy from you.
So take great care over what you say and how you say it in your tender documents. Spend time building up batteries of answers to tender questions - and save them so you can readily use them again.
Your tender is your bait. When you drop it in the post or click to release it to bid, make sure it is tasty enough for you to start gently tugging on the string!
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RfP Solutions provides bespoke tender response consultancy from supporting that important new bid through to full tender programme development, automation and management.
If you are you considering tendering for the first time or looking for more from your responses to tenders, visit http://www.rfpsolutions.co.uk to see how we can help you raise your tendering game.
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