In business as in life, courtship is all-important. Your Invitation to tender (ITT) is the crucial opportunity to attract the very best suppliers to your business and to establish the ground rules for a successful and value for money procurement.

This programme is designed for budget holders, project managers and anyone who has to get quotations from suppliers for work from time to time and covers all aspects of how to get the best results from putting a contract out to tender.

It provides the context for the subject by giving an overview of the procurement and bidding processes, and then covers assessing and managing risk in the bidding process; managing the process to create successful bids; proposal planning and writing; and pricing the bid.