Winning in Tendering is a strategic project aimed at transforming the public tendering experience of Small Indigenous Suppliers (SISs) in the INTERREG Ireland/Wales region. Winning in Tendering will address skill gaps of SISs and public procurers, which inhibit the region’s competitiveness and sustainable development via unique, innovative and complementary  targeted interventions.

Key Initatives

• An On-Line Diagnostic ‘health-check’ Educational Tool to allow SISs to self- evaluate their tender readiness.
• A Supplier Review Programme enabling Irish SISs to learn why they failed to win past tenders, thus improving skills and encouraging SISs to re-enter the tendering game with renewed optimism.
• Legal Educational Guidance and Case Studies in Plain English on the revolutionary 2009 EU Remedies Directive
• A SIS-Friendly Procurement Competency Framework, whereby procurers actively consider SIS vulnerabilities in designing tenders.
• A bank of relevant Case Studies and Educational guidance to help procurers overcome negative impacts of below EU threshold advertising, thus improving SIS access to opportunities.
• WIT will also develop a common cross- border Higher Education procurement programme for procurers and SISs.

DCU Project Staff