Red Tape Busters

Something that is often overlooked in the tender writing process is the need to read all of the documents provided by the agency offering the tender. The inexperienced tender writer will pay scant regard to most of the documents and focus more on the tender specifications document. This is a failed strategy and in this case study we demonstrate why it is important to read all documents. We were contacted by a client who had started preparing a response to the tender and had commenced completing the tender response form but was having difficulty in completing the application. Our grant writer initially asked the client for all of the documents that related to the tender application and was promptly forwarded the application form. Our tender writer suggested that there must be more documents provided by the Council is Conditions of Contract, Technical Specifications of Offer, General Conditions of Offer and Special Conditions of Offer. The client advised that they had not dow...

This is Case Study 6 in our series of grant writing articles. In this instalment we will look at the Bulimba Bowls Club and their efforts to get major repairs to their roof funded. An inexperienced grant writer would try and find a funding program which will fund the entire repair works which was in the vicinity of $100k. At Red Tape Busters we realise that grant writing opportunities in the vicinity of $100k are few and far between. So our skilled grant writer set about identifying if we could break the project down into smaller sub projects and then find two or more grants that will be viable to fund the entire project over time. In the first instance we asked the Club to work with their proposed roof repair contractor to see if the project could in fact be split into sub projects. The contractor agreed that we could split the project up into two smaller projects – and if funding was achieved the club could undertake the repairs in stages. First we identified a smaller program ...