Browsing: Tendering and contracts

New public sector contracting opportunities 12 October

Looking for contracting opportunities to deliver your services? Check out this week’s list of opportunities with approaching deadlines.

New public sector contracting opportunities 28 September

Some of the latest public sector contracting opportunities with approaching deadlines.

New public sector contracting opportunities 21 September

Some of the latest public sector contracting opportunities with approaching deadlines.

New public sector contracting opportunities 14 September

The latest public sector contracting opportunities.

Making sense of Futurebuilders terminology

Sometimes we come across words that may not be in most people’s daily usage. Many of them are specialist financial terms and others may refer to a specific section of the third sector. To combat this information gap we are starting a series of articles aimed at making sense of many of the terms used in the sector.

Commissioning review spring 2009

This is the twelfth of Futurebuilders England’s quarterly Commissioning Reviews.
Financial crisis…economic downturn…recession. We have all heard these words and phrases repeated so often over the past few months that it’s hard not to get bogged down in the negatives. But there are many positive things happening as well, particularly in the third sector, which we [...]

Tendering for public service contracts

Third sector organisations play a significant role in delivering public services. Grants are becoming less common and bidding for public service contracts is becoming increasingly competitive, so it is imperative that third sector organisations understand how to tender effectively for these contracts.

Top tips: Successful tendering

Jon Royle is Chief Executive of Bridge, a Bradford based charity providing drug and alcohol treatment services. In this article, he outlines his top tips for successful tendering.

Top tips: Commissioning at local level

A session at our recent Investee Support Day was devoted to a group discussion on commissioning. Investees discovered a number of top tips to help third sector organisations build relationships with commissioners at a local level.