CirrusTenders is a web-based e-Tender service www.cirrustenders.co.uk
Finalist UK Housing Excellence Awards in the categories of Product of the Year 2009, 2010 and Innovation in Housing Technology 2010
Finalist Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPs) Supply Management Awards 2010 and 2011
CirrusTenders is bundled as part of any Cirrus led procurement, or available as a subscription service for buyers undertaking their own tenders, but wishing to optimise their tendering efficiency and minimise the environmental impact of the tender process.
It allows buyers to manage the tender process electronically, eradicating paperwork, removing the need to issue documents to bidders and standardising and controlling the format of responses to make evaluations easier, focussing on content rather than marketing gloss.
“etendering can deliver average savings of 21 per cent for a non-Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) tender and 25 per cent for an OJEU tender”
Key characteristics of CirrusTenders are:
- Proven: Over £1.5 billion of tenders managed by CirrusTenders
- Popular: Over 6,000 suppliers and contractors registered to use CirrusTenders
- Cost effective: 25% reduction in tender administration costs
- Efficient: Identified 1/3 reduction in evaluation time
- Secure: Fully encrypted server with downloadable audit reports
- Environmentally friendly: Over 1,000,000 sheets of A4 paper saved
- Compliant: Supports EU compliant tender procedures
- Easy: Web-based - No software to install or manage
- Flexible: Customisable to your individual tender style and content
Dynamically generated tenders built around your documentation give better results than traditional upload/download vault or postbox systems.
We convert your documentation and put the tenders on the system on your behalf, so there is no additional administration or training requirements for your staff.
Click here to download a CirrusTenders Information Sheet (146K)
CirrusTenders seamlessly integrates with existing processes; it is an improvement for buyers and bidders and has a definitive impact on the resource, costs and outcomes associated with tendering.
Feedback from buyers using the system includes:
“There was no doubt a saving in the level of resource required in collating the documents and issuing to contractors.”
“CirrusTenders has definitely provided us many benefits and so far everyone is very pleased with the way things have gone”.
“Thanks for your help. The electronic submissions for PQQs (and the data about those who didn’t see it through) has been really handy and I’ll be sure to extol its virtues".
“The support was very comprehensive from evaluation of the tender documents, the form of procurement, and compliance with our internal business assurance requirements. Once we were happy with the quality of the tender documents, rather than printing off and posting large packages to contractors, we simply sent an email with attachments to Cirrus who did the rest!”
Feedback from bidders includes:
“We found the site user friendly and the process clear and simple”.
“The last day of filling in a tender is usually a mad panic, this was different everything was on the website and all we had to do was answer the questions, click submit and it was done”.
