Term: Bid Stage

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The response period; the period during which the bid is being developed. Used primarily to distinguish from things that occur after contract award.

This site focuses on RFP responses, but there's help here for RFP issuers, too. For even more help -- on either side of the contracting divide -- check out my manual.

"... a brilliant articulation of everything you ever needed to know about proposals." Carla Dawes, Founder: Rising into Resilience; former Business Development Manager & Proposal Consultant

Available as an ebook from these sources:

Publisher

Amazon

Available as a PDF from me, via the Contacts page.

Harvard Business Review often publishes good articles on managing yourself at work. Here's one of them:

6 Science-Backed Ways
to Improve Your Well-Being at Work

More effort creates beauty and magic and remarkability.

Perfectionism is a false hope and a place to hide.

Effort, on the other hand, is our best chance to do work that matters.

Source: Seth's Blog (like, where else?)

"There are only two things: contracts and conversations.
If you don't have the one, all you have is the other."
- An American Colonel whose name is lost in the mists of time,
but whose trenchant comment lives on

Here's a good overview of procurement, written in a conversational tone.

What is Procurement?

Posted: 2020 Nov 14