Throughout our recent blog posts we have recommended that you include certain sorts of extra information when it comes to submitting your tender forms, such as a well presented summary of your business, client references, and project development plans. 

While we encourage you to include extra information along side the compulsory information that is required for the forms we must also emphasise that your tender bid submission really needs to just cut to the chase.

In order to be concise and to the point you should consider every statement you make about yourself and your business and ask whether it is really relevant for this tender. If it isn't, leave it out. The contracting agency is going to have a lot of forms and information to get through so the less waffling you do, the more the reader is going to appreciate your application. 

There's a fine line between enthusiasm and overdoing your content, so get someone outside of the project to read through your submission. It's great to include project plans and methodologies, but be to the point. If your objective reader can't make it through your bid then there is no way the tendering committee will.