tender writer melbourne– an improved focus on buying local?

Tender Writer Melbourne – An improved focus on buying local?

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As expert tender writers in Melbourne we assist our Melbourne and Victorian clients through the tender writing process.

As a former senior public servant in Queensland I understand the tender development, tender creation and tender assessment processes probably better than just about anyone else in Australia.

I was lucky enough through my regular segments on radio 4BC in Brisbane to be asked by the Queensland Premier, Campbell Newman, to meet with the staff in charge of the Qld Government procurement processes to discuss my views on the procurement process in general and with respect to “buying” local and to somehow simplifying the process.


I have a very firm position that “buying” local should be an integral component of the assessment process for any Council, State, Federal or in fact any Government agencies or, affiliate.

In this regard I believe that a local provider – ie local business in a Council area for a Council tender, a business based in the state for a State Government tender and/or a business based in Australia for a Federal Government tender should receive preferential treatment over a competitor if that competitor is not “local” and if the issue of price, quality, ability to deliver are essentially equal.

Why shouldn’t our Government Departments, Government agencies or Government owned Corporations be trying to assist the local economy and stimulate local employment opportunities by trying to purchase from local businesses? To me this is a no brainer. It is just plain common sense really.


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During the meeting with the Qld Government Procurement staff they were also keen to listen to my views about the application process in general.

I am sure that many Government or Council agencies specifically try to make the process complicated to meet their own personal or internal needs or to justify their positions etc.

The specification documents are so complex these days that unless you are a lawyer you can’t have any hope of understanding the documents in many cases.

The application documents are also lengthy and complex and often difficult to easily manipulate data into and most mum and dad small businesses would find it impossible to complete the forms correctly such is the level of difficulty involved in completing the documentation.


Lastly the lodgement process also hides problems for the inexperienced novice with again Government/Council computer systems generally being extremely difficult to use.

This is not to mention problems in actually lodging and pushing the final send button and how long the documents can take to send given the large volume of other users trying to lodge at the same time.

Many businesses or non profit organisations have been caught out by a looming deadline for tenders purely because the Government or Council computer system stalled or went super slow and as a result the documents were not received prior to the closing time thus making the tender response generally ineligible for consideration.


During the meeting I realised all these issues and strongly encouraged the Procurement team to take the issues on board with a view to improving their processes and systems.

What other tender writer in Australia gets asked by the Premier of a State to share his or her views about the tender process with senior Government staff? I gather not many! As a highly respected tender writer in Melbourne we can offer our southern clients a highly skilled and experienced service second to none.

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