In this episode of The Growth Lab podcast, I discuss the intricacies of navigating the tender process for government contracts with Samantha Read.

Samantha shares her journey from domestic contracts to successfully bidding for tenders. We discuss the importance of learning from rejections and developing a robust document management system to streamline future tender applications.

Samantha also touches on the costs of hiring bid writers and the time investment required to prepare substantial bids.

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Key Takeaways

* Know the strengths of your business before tendering

* Ask for feedback for every unsuccessful tender.

* Tender’s are a big investment of time and money.

* The success rate for tendering is typically very low - between 25-40$

Chapters

00:00 Intro

00:19 Navigating Government Tenders

01:29 Tendering Experience

03:28 The Learning Curve of Tender Writing

05:09 Building a Document Management and Bid Writing Strategies

05:27 How to navigate Tender Opportunities

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