Wednesday, 11 June 2014

Tip of the Day - Policies

Now every organisation, particularly in health and social care, should have the right policies, as well as having them fully up-to-date and reviewed.  Sadly this isn't always the case and before a bid goes in you can often find yourselves desperately trying to create a policy at the last minute.

Policies and procedures should not be the responsibility of a Business Development / Bid Team but I would suggest you keep a regular eye on them.  If the organisation isn't keeping up-to-date with policies, or they just don’t exist, then this is going to impact on your ability to win bids, maybe even with getting through PQQs.


If you have any down time as a team, review what policies the organisation has (or doesn't) and flag up any potential gaps.  If you need to, find policy templates on the internet to give you something to work from should a worst case scenario occur.  Whatever happens, make sure you are prepared for there to be a missing policy and that you can deal with it in enough time.

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