Courses from the Tendering Academy
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Our top priority is to help you achieve tendering success during a period of significant cultural change. We respond to Government announcements and create courses so that you can keep up with the changes and be awarded contracts.
Keep up to Date
By simply learning to repeat the tendering methods of the past will not result in securing future contracts. Procurement is now a dynamic process which requires frequent updates. Our courses keep up to date and help you learn for the future.
Confidentiality is key
We recognise that learners could be competing with each other. We take
great care not to divulge who we work for or on which tenders.
Learn when it is convenient for you
Our courses are self-serve, online, so you chose when you learn, progressing at your own rate. You can go back as often as you like to reinforce your learning.
Core Features
Our courses are designed as resources which can be viewed multiple times for a single payment, with downloadable supporting documentation which is not available as a package elsewhere
Video Conferencing
We believe that successful tendering results from a clear understanding of how procurement works form the buyers' perspective. This is at the core of all of our courses.
Your Tutor
Janet Roberts and her husband moved to Big Bear Lake in the San Bernardino Mountains of Southern California in 2016. They had spent six weeks of each of the previous fifteen years following their passion for geology up and down the West coast of the USA from the Canadian border to Mexico. They opened the Big Bear Rock shop "Gems of the West" which sells rocks, minerals, jewellry, metaphysical products and dinosaur artifacts and spend a lot of their time teaching customers about the geology of the west coast.
Teaching Experience
Janet has been a teacher for 55 years. Following qualification she taught science to 11 to 18 year olds at Nailsea School in Somerset and then at Brockworth School in Gloucestershire. She then moved on to be an Education Officer managing the education in Leeds City Centre; the adult literacy provision in Dorset: and community education in Derbyshire. Developing her interest in the effective administration of education provision she became Principal of Morley College in London, a College providing educations for over 13,550 adult students.
Funding Management
In her role as Community Education Officer in Derbyshire, Janet was given responsibility for project selection, funding allocation and Management of European Social Fund (ESF). In this role she developed one of the first bid appraisal systems. She used this knowledge to act as a trainer for senor staff and managers at the Further Education Staff College. When ESF was made available to the voluntary sector Janet used her administrative knowledge to help many charities in the Social Care sector secure grants to benefit staff and service users, finally acting on behalf of the Verification and Audit Team, reviewing grant spending and match funding compliance.
Procurement
The arrival of the EU Procurement Directive 2004 (implemented in 2006) resulted in requests for Janet to apply her extensive experience of public sector funding to social care tendering. She provided training for staff of a wide range of organisations around the country. She was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and her company received a National Training Award, later contracting with the DWP to provide training on consortium tendering for Public sector staff. She also edited a publication on tendering as a consortium for the Cabinet Office. Janet has been an affiliate Member of CIPS since 2010. She is now providing training on aspects of tendering under the 20023/24 procurement regulations. She remains in much demand by professionals in the UK, for delivering courses on successful tendering, providing courses also mentoring business development and senior staff through the medium of online learning.
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