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Alan Tawse
12.12.2020
-2 min
For the client's procurement team, the most important part of the tender submission is normally the commercial submission, where information about pricing, discounts, financial incentives and any other commercial conditions are presented. This will often be separately evaluated by a commercial sub-team, while the other parts of the tender submission are evaluated by a technical team.
To optimize the production of the tender response, the enterprise will also allocate resources to working on the commercial submission, perhaps exclusively for larger tenders. They will have to carefully study the tender documents in order to carry out their tasks.
The tender support team that are compiling the completed response will have a number of specific checks that they will need to look out for.
The commercial submission is just as much a marketing document as the technical part, so it is important that the commercial pages look just as professional as the rest of the tender.
Alan Tawse
Alan has worked in the oil and gas industry since 1974 in various administrative, operational and managerial roles in the UK, Netherlands and Norway. In 1993 he joined Halliburton in Norway as country manager of their new Drilling Systems division. Following a merger with Dresser industries in 1998, he moved to Business Development where he established a BD support team providing centralised expertise for tendering, contract management, market intelligence and various BD software systems. After managing up to 200 tenders and proposals annually for over 20 years, Alan retired at the beginning of 2020 with plans to explore Norway, and spend time with family overseas, He enjoys downhill skiing in the winter, golfing in the summer and following the Formula 1 racing season throughout the year.