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TenderTenderTenderTender writingwritingwritingwriting is more than just responding to questions or fillingout a form, the effective tender writer will be casting his/her netwide to identify as many relevant tender opportunities as possible.

Tender opportunities are publicised and published via a variety ofmediums and therefore a quality tender writer will use a variety ofstrategies and platforms to identify opportunities for theirbusiness or non profit organisation.

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Major newspapers will have tenders advertised either through thepaper or in the classified sections generally Wednesday andSaturday are the best days but check every day just in case.

Also your local suburban newspaper might also havecommercial/State/Federal Government tenders advertised but itwill certainly publicise those of your local Council.

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Obviously these websites are vital and will have details aboutavailable tenders.

The smart tender writer though will ensure that they set up analert system via each website so that as soon as any tenders arereleased which meet their decided parameters that the websiteswill automatically notify the tender writer that the tender hasbeen released.

These websites however can be prone to being slow with thealert so I strongly suggest you regularly review the websitesmanually to make sure you dont miss any opportunities.

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Your local Councillor/s are a great avenue to being notified ofany available local tenders.

If you go an introduce yourself and outline what yourbusiness/organisation does they should be more than happy toput you on their mailing database so that they can send youemail notification of any appropriate tenders.

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Similarly to your local Councillor/s, you should be able toget yourself on their mailing database and hopefully theycan advise you of any tenders as they become availablefrom the different levels of Government.

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This is another great avenue to become aware ofpossible tender opportunities.

People in your network, even competitors might divulgeinformation about possible opportunities so keep yourear to the ground.

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There are many of these websites around where you canpay a fee and they will send you details of possibletenders that you might be interested in.

Websites like Tenderlink provide a fee for service tendernotification service for those that can afford it.

These websites however will not dig deep into the tenderto identify if the tender will meet your business needs they will just notify you of opportunities that meet theparameters you have set.

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This a relatively new platform to use to become aware oftender opportunities, however all Councils andGovernment Departments now have a presence on sayTwitter and Facebook and if you follow theirpages/accounts there will no doubt be information overtime about the release of tenders.

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At Red Tape Busters we certainly provide a fee for servicearrangement where clients can engage us to undertake theresearch to identify tender prospects.

The difference with us is that we will dig deep into thetender and the business/organisationalgoals/strategies/needs and then make recommendationson the best opportunities to pursue to our client.

This is very important as not every opportunity shouldnecessarily be pursued and it is important thatorganisations only chase those opportunities that fit themexactly and where they are a reasonable chance of success.

If you cast your net widely and use a mix of all of the abovemediums then very few tenders will get past you which willgive you more chances of winning a tender with the righttender response.

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