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Writing an Evaluation Report for a funded or contracted service

Evaluation methodology is an important feature in your tender, proposal, quote or submission document

Therefore, you should include sufficient details of your proposed evaluation methodology to assure the assessors of your intention and ability to ensure satisfactory delivery of the …

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Jeans Successful Quoting and Tendering for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and Nonprofit Organisations

This e-book offers Jean’s 14-step procedure for successful quoting and tendering.

Email jean@jeanroberts.com.au if you would like a free pdf of this publication.

1. The Corporate or Organisational aim of quoting and tendering is to be and remain supplier of

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Successful Submission Writing – for Business and Nonprofits 3rd Edition

Successful Submission Writing - 3rd edition

Successful Submission Writing – for Business and Nonprofits, 3rd Edition (Jean Roberts, 2009), published by Wilkinson Publishing of Melbourne, Australia

The focus of this book is the person or group writing the submission or grant application – and offers a 10-step model for successful submission

This 3rd Edition provides greater depth to each of the 10 Steps and 9 worksheets – consequently expanding your potential to:

  • improve your strike/success rate with submissions, grant applications, proposals, estimates, quotes and tenders,
  • reduce the costs associated with preparing these documents,
  • contribute to the skills associated with preparing these documents being readily acknowledged as core business competencies,
  • assist government departments, and philanthropic trusts and foundations, in inviting and assessing submissions, proposals and tenders, and
  • assist commercial and nonprofit organisations in preparing to outsource.

The 10-Step Model of Successful Submission Writing clearly places development of the project plan ahead of completing the application form.

Your submission needs to be a positive, powerful and persuasive marketing tool:

  • as well as being the vehicle for your project proposal, the submission document should present a positive, powerful and persuasive case for your company or organisation.
  • it therefore has the potential to be both a marketing and educational document, informing the assessors of the uniqueness and strength of your company or organisation, the benefits for them in accepting your project, and expressing readiness to enter into negotiations prior to signing the contract and commencing the project.

A successful submission is one that not only wins the money or contract, but also ensures that you will be able to satisfactorily fulfil the contract – and complete the submission project.

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Jean’s definition Partnership in the Nonprofit Sector

A partnership is not something new or different: 

It is an established business practice in both the nonprofit and commercial sectors.  Partnerships between independent and autonomous nonprofit organisations – and between such nonprofit organisations and commercial entities – can be …

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Skills Involved in Tendering

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Time and Task Management

Six Steps Toward Improving your Time and Task Management

If you are keen to review your current style of working – no matter what your work is – then be prepared to invest some of your precious time to do …

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Jean’s Core Business Strategy No. 9: Retrospective Planning

Retrospective planning ensures a solid basis for forward planning

Retrospective planning allows a degree of useful and objective observation, where the emotional component can be suspended: the future for your business may look uncertain, but you can be certain about …

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Jean’s Core Business Strategy No. 8: Project Mentality and Management

Developing a project mentality is an effective approach to business. Very simply, it means treating each major assignment, action-plan or responsibility as a project – with a beginning, a middle, and an end.

Together, project mentality and project management should …

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Jean’s Core Business Strategy No. 7: Business Brainpower

Extract from The Left and Right Brain Business (Jean Roberts, 1997)

What is a workplace relationship?

A workplace relationship exists when two or more people choose – or are required – to work collaboratively for a specific purpose. They may …

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Jean’s Core Business Strategy No. 6: Traps in Tendering and Outsourcing

These can be effective business growth strategies:

  • Both are core business competencies and functions
  • Both require and deserve thorough planning
  • Always start with the project or prototype
  • Keep your eye on the detail, not just on the process

What is

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