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In our blogs you will find everything you need to know about bid management, including the latest insights, developments, RFPs, and useful tender tips.

From Inputs to Impact: Measuring ROI Across the Bid Lifecycle

In the past, bid management was often viewed as a cost center, a necessary but opaque "administrative" burden. In 2026, that narrative has shifted. High-growth organizations now treat the bid lifecycle as a high-leverage revenue engine, where every minute saved and every data point captured correlates directly to the bottom line.

Benchmarking Your Bid Readiness: A Self-Assessment Framework for Modern Teams

In the high-stakes world of enterprise bidding, "ready" is a relative term. For some teams, it means having a clean folder of past PDFs. For market leaders, it means a predictive, AI-augmented engine that qualifies opportunities with surgical precision.

The Bid/No-Bid Dilemma: How Great Teams Decide Faster (and Win More)

Every bid team faces the same dilemma: pursue the opportunity or protect capacity? While many organisations still rely on instinct-driven discussions, high-performing teams use structured, data-informed qualification frameworks.

How AI can make the difference between winning and losing construction tenders

Modern firms are moving away from manual tendering and spreadsheet chaos. By using AI to automate requirement analysis and streamline knowledge, teams reclaim time to focus on what actually wins bids: strategy, differentiation, and flawless execution.

What High-Performing Bid Teams Do Differently: Insights from 100+ Winning Proposals

High-performing teams use process maturity to drive higher win rates. By balancing speed and data, they move from manual chaos to a strategic flow that makes excellence the default.

The True Cost of Manual Tender Management and What It’s Costing Your Win Rate

Manual tender management consumes 30–40% of productive hours and results in inconsistent bids, missed requirements, compliance risk, and lower win rates.

8 costly mistakes bid managers in consulting firms make (and how to fix them)

Consulting firms lose time and deals to fragmented bid processes, scattered content, and missed insights. This article reveals the 8 most costly mistakes bid managers make and how smarter workflows, data, and AI can turn bidding into a true competitive advantage.

Launching Worldwide Tender Tracking

One list. Every market. Global tender discovery is here. Today we’re launching a major upgrade to Altura’s spotting capabilities: global tender tracking.

8 costly bid process mistakes staffing & recruitment firms make (and how to avoid them)

Your next strategic staffing bid is stuck in spreadsheets. Or buried in endless email threads. Staffing and recruitment firms thrive on efficient, accurate, and timely bids. Yet many continue to rely on scattered Excel files, inbox chaos, and manual processes, leaving crucial contracts at risk.

8 bid mistakes draining profits for NHS staffing suppliers (and how to avoid them)

Your next strategic staffing bid is lost in NHS compliance checklists. Or buried in candidate CV spreadsheets. Staffing firms regularly handle complex public-sector and NHS framework bids. Yet many firms still manage these critical submissions through fragmented Excel sheets, scattered emails, and endless WhatsApp threads.

Altura secures €8m in funding and launch AI agents for winning tenders

Altura secures €8m to accelerate growth and launch the first AI agents to help organisations win more public and private tenders

Altura’s Series A and what’s next

I am thrilled to announce our €8M Series A funding round, led by Octopus Ventures and with continued support from Fortino, P1ST, and Curiosity.

8 costly bid mistakes construction companies make (and how to avoid them)

What are the challenges that bid teams in construction face? Read more in this blog.

How to assess AI readiness in bid management [Scan included]

Find out how prepared your bid team is to apply AI and what you need to do next. Based on our work advising 150+ bid teams across Europe - spanning sectors from telecom to professional services.

The 5 best bid management tools in 2025

In this article, you’ll discover the bid management software solutions that will drive your win rate using AI and data management.

New sustainability legislation is changing the procurement market: here’s how to adapt

The EU is mandating sustainable procurement through new regulations stemming from the Green Deal. Commercial organisations must reassess their products and services to meet green criteria. This presents both challenges and opportunities. In this blog, we'll explain how your organisation can adapt and thrive.

6 skills to upgrade your bid management team: from admin to strategic

These 6 skills are essential for a modern bid management team. Take advantage of them.

The Ultimate Bid Management Guide for Capture

This is a step-by-step approach to improving your bid management processes, with a focus on commercial strategy, forecasting, and account strategy. The Bid Management Guide demonstrates how to develop a well-thought-out commercial and bid management strategy.

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What does the tender team of the future look like?

Read here about the changes that will take place in the coming years to the way bid managers work within their immediate environment: the tender team.

Bid and tender management training: a complete guide to becoming an expert

Nobody goes to school to become a bid manager or tender manager. Bid and tender managers have usually come into their profession from other roles. Education for tender management is often course or training based, with no dedicated study programs. So few already skilled labourers come into the workforce.

How to use AI in tender and RFP management in 2025

During Altura's panel on AI in bid management in July, 84% of 115 attendees indicated that they wanted to free up time for the application of AI in tender and RFP processes. Overwhelming enthusiasm.

Data-driven bid management in 6 steps

What do you do if you get a free pass to set up your own data-driven bidding process? That is what Mark de Bruijn, now responsible for the Bid & Proposal Center of a listed conversational software provider, was asked during his application. After 2 years, he shared the results and insights that he learned.

Best practices in bid management: 10 tips for successful tender submissions

What are the biggest challenges of bid managers today, and how do you deal with them? How do the best practices of bid management look in 2024?

The 5 best tender management tools of 2025

In this article you can read about the tender management tools that help you improve your offer based on data and previous results.

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