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The Sixfold Political Analysis Tool

The entire Public Sector bidding process is underpinned by politics. It is not supposed to make a difference but it does! This tool allows you to collate political information from many sources, give your entire team a method and vocabulary to communicate the information and analyse it so you can harness the politics to be on your side.

Public Sector Bid Authoring Guidelines

When the Bid Manager is ready to go, how do you stop the team from starting work but all going in different directions? This document is a template which covers all the key areas which must be managed to get a quality bid response together and to give the authoring team guidance on how they should construct their expert submission elements.

Public Sector Opportunity Analysis

If you have come across an opportunity you are considering investing resources into to bid and win it, us this tool first! The tool take you through 25 key questions and then shows you where are are against you chances of winning.

Request for Information

This is a template letter for request of information under the Freedom of Information act.

Winning Public Sector Contracts

This guide seeks to explain the complex processes by which the government buys, in the UK and Europe, and some of the thinking that lies behind them. Public sector buying differs substantially from commercial buying, but once you understand the principles that the public sector procurement system is based upon, selling to it isn't more difficult, j

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David Evans

Phone: 01227 860 375

Email: info@sixfold.biz

David is an established member of the Sixfold team with great skill and experience in developing bids, particularly where the native tongue of the contributors is not English. This comes from many years of sales success in a complex engineering environment. However, where David can make the greatest difference is in the area of bid team motivation and contribution. Here David’s is able to apply his perception and research to multiply the value which each individual team member can provide, particularly in the highly charged atmosphere of the final stages of bid preparation.

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Phone: 01227 860 375

Email: info@sixfold.biz

Andy brings more than 25 years of experience formed in the Royal Air Force and then the Royal Mail where his activities have taken him from his clients’ operations to their boardrooms. During this time has been heavily involved in the design, tailoring and communication of a variety of complex services to meet client’s needs which range from simple operational change projects through to coordinating complex multi-supplier solutions for major bids. His qualities as a problem solver have been often needed and he has worked his way through several testing assignments and leading roles in bid management teams.

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Phone: 01227 860 375

Email: info@sixfold.biz

Simon has a strong background in sales and marketing within the IT industry. Working first for Fujitsu (then ICL) and then for Unisys where he worked across Europe and was Sales Operations Director for the UKMEI&A region. Simon is also a business mentor for both the Harwell Campus, Oxford plus The Goldman Sachs 10,000 and is a member of both the Association of Business Mentors and BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT. He advises a number of high-tech and early stage businesses on sales, marketing and business strategy.

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Phone: 01227 860375

Email: john.fernau@sixfold.biz

Before joining Sixfold, John was the Home Office Group Commercial Director, reporting to Chief Operating Officer and HM Government Chief Procurement Officer, engaging and advising Ministers and senior officials including Permanent Secretary. He was responsible for all procurement and commercial activity across the Group, with third party spend of £2.8bn pa whilst managing a team of 220 staff.

He was formerly Head of Procurement of the Olympic Delivery Authority, where he led procurement delivery, including construction, rail works, various FM and Security services, utilising multiple forms and commercial mechanisms of the NEC3 contract. John is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply.

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