ABSTRACT

The original Bid Manager's Handbook continues to provide an invaluable resource in the battle to win new business. Winning significant business on the right terms is an increasingly complex, challenging and time-consuming task, and a successful bid is a vital part of any business offering its services or products to another. This book will help you to enhance the probability of success in winning bids at the desired margins and to set up and run effectively a bid management team. The Handbook is aimed at sales staff managing multi-disciplinary bid teams, and project and technical managers who find themselves managing a bid to support a sales campaign. Taking a practical approach and using real-life examples, David Nickson leads the reader through every stage of planning for, producing and delivering a bid. Crucially it also shows how to save time - the most important commodity in any bid - without affecting quality. Now the original Bid Manager's Handbook has been repackaged to include additional material that expands on the writing and editorial side of the bid, the use of bid management software and the bid review process.

chapter 1|6 pages

Introduction

part |2 pages

Part 1: Summary

chapter 2|1 pages

Roles and Responsibilities

chapter |11 pages

Why have roles and responsibilities?

chapter |1 pages

Checklist

chapter 3|10 pages

Methods and Approaches

chapter |1 pages

Checklist

chapter 4|7 pages

Risk Management

chapter |1 pages

Sample risk for bids

chapter |2 pages

Example bid risk plan

chapter |2 pages

CASE STUDY

SITUATION

chapter 5|4 pages

Administration and Logistics

chapter |7 pages

Back-up policies

chapter 6|1 pages

Planning

chapter |9 pages

Timetable

chapter |5 pages

Change

part |2 pages

Part 2: Summary

chapter 7|5 pages

Writing Skills

chapter |5 pages

Writing styles

chapter |2 pages

CASE STUDY

SITUATION

chapter 8|10 pages

Editorial Skills

chapter |2 pages

CASE STUDY

SITUATION

chapter 9|18 pages

Layout and Presentation

chapter 10|17 pages

Communication

chapter 11|14 pages

Teams

chapter 12|11 pages

Negotiation

chapter 13|16 pages

Sales

chapter |2 pages

Appendix: Bid Brief Template

chapter |14 pages

BID BRIEF

Version 1.0

chapter |4 pages

Glossary

chapter |2 pages

Additional Reading

chapter |6 pages

Index

chapter |19 pages

Contents