SCLO are well known for our work within employment and skills, but we have always been open to working in other sectors.
Fundamentally, a bid is a bid is a bid.
If you have the right people to help pull together the gaps in your knowledge, all you need to do is to work collaboratively to produce a really compelling proposal.
Working together in a partnership, SCLO bring the tendering skills and knowledge and the ability to ask the right questions to draw out the right information for a quality tender.
Since our inception six years ago, we have worked in areas such as: road maintenance, health and social care provision, print distribution, hospitality and catering.
Diversification
Our diversification has continued over the last 12 months too.
Recently, SCLO has been involved with a large London-based law firm who do the whole gambit of criminal, financial, public law and more.
They wanted to tender to provide law services to a governmental agency and they needed help to make sure they answered the questions in the right way.
It was not a sector I was used to, but you have to be inquisitive and ask questions and that helped me develop sector-based knowledge that I didn’t previously have. The tender team was a triumvirate between SCLO, the business’s business development section and one of the partners in the firm and it was fascinating to be a part of.
Similarly, we have worked with a client to quote for material handling equipment training, for a very large international home improvement group. Material handling equipment in layman’s terms is fork-lift and pallet trucks!
It was a very big piece of work and a key element was understanding how the processes would work and understanding the regulatory necessities behind it.
Another new sector we delved into was working with a university to help them apply for grants for specific research projects. In this instance, it was for a Scottish-based funding pot to look at research into the impact of working with challenging patients on nurses.
Being able to support organisations across a range of different sectors like this has not only been enjoyable and a big learning curve, but has given SCLO the knowledge and confidence to take on much more work in new areas as we head into the second half of 2024.
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