Research bids 2.0

Types of bidders

Novice bidder - getting advice, gaining confidence, process support, consortium agreement, budgets, review of drafts, sign off

Experienced bidder - process support, efficiency, consortium leadership, budgets, internatl sign off

Process

A bright idea

Fitting to the workplan

Finding a consortium

Developing the bid

Negotiating roles - dealing with overlap of skills

Setting budgets (often iteratively)

Final draft

Sing-off

Submission

Power of web 2.0 technologies to provide more efficency in terms of supporting process of bid writing and effective running of projects.