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Tender Writers’ insight into what clients want to see in responses to tender questions is invaluable…

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Should you be responding to that request for tender or proposal? Here are three questions to help you decide.

Should we be responding to this tender? It’s a question we’re asked almost daily as organisations increasingly seek to respond to Requests for Tender (RFT) and Requests for Proposal (RFP). While it can be tempting…
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Seven great techniques for proofreading your tenders

It’s when time is pressed that we most make mistakes. And this is as true for tender writing as it is for anything else. Just think how many times tender writers have forgotten to change…
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Five tips on writing tenders like an expert tender writer

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Submitting government tenders? Here’s how the government will assess your tender

The government tender evaluation team  Your government tenders will be assessed by a tender evaluation team. The team will assess your tenders using the responses you’ve provided in the tenders. When you’re tender writing, remember…
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What do you do if your client puts your services out to tender?

Even if you’ve been providing the best service in the world at great value for years, sometimes out of the blue a client will decide to put your services out to tender. This can come…
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The most important message you’ll ever read about winning tenders

Let’s face it. Writing tenders and proposals is not most people’s first choice for business development.  But imagine if you were able to write tenders and proposals more easily, with less stress, less time and…
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Tim Richardson

Writer and Editor,
Proof Communications

Tim’s passion is helping our clients to develop and write compelling, compliant and successful bids, tenders and proposals. Tim is very skilled at delivering the expertise and support required for each tender opportunity and he thrives on helping clients to maintain and win new business.

He leverages skills and experience built-up over his long career in corporate and government sales environments.

Tim’s corporate career included senior roles at Telstra as a bid lead responsible for the development of multi-domain solutions (Telstra & 3rd Parties) and formal bid responses for complex corporate and government tenders and sales proposals. This experience provided Tim with a deep insight in the dos and don’ts of successful bid writing which he applies to his support to Proof Communications’ clients.

Kelly Handley

Tender Writer and Editor, Proof Communications

Kelly is a creative and results-driven tender writer with more than 20 years’ experience working with leading Australian brands, SMEs and start-ups.

She has a track record for producing sharp, original and persuasive content that enables businesses to achieve tender success.

Kelly’s passion for writing developed during her time at Fairfax Media, where she was responsible for producing communications for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Sun Herald to an exceptionally high standard.

Kelly has a Bachelor of Economics, Majoring in Marketing, from Macquarie University.

Jasmine Hanna

Tender Writer and Editor,
Proof Communications

Jasmine is an experienced and versatile tender writer with a background in journalism. During her career she has written content for organisations in many industries, including property, construction, finance, manufacturing, hospitality and travel.

Jasmine joined Proof Communications as a writer and editor in mid-2020. She is an exemplary member of our team, supporting our clients in the legal, mortgage broking, financial services, facilities management and IT services sectors.

Jasmine brings you her demonstrated versatility as a writer, able to produce content on a wide range of topics; creativity, writing engaging and useful content which weaves in key messages; experience in sympathetically drawing out information from interview; and reliability in meeting briefs and deadlines.

Jasmine has a Bachelor of Communications (Journalism) from Western Sydney University.

Sue Jackson

Senior Consultant,
Proof Communications

Sue manages our clients’ tender response processes and prepares powerful tenders and corporate communications.

She is an enthusiastic, motivated and articulate B2B writer in the professional services and financial services sector.

Sue has 15 years’ experience in business development and business communications. This includes five years in business development for a major Australian retail bank and eight years as the public relations manager of professional services organisations at state, national and international level.

With qualifications in law, communications and governance, Sue brings you:

  • her ability to quickly synthesise the complexity of your business, your client’s industry and the requirements of the request for tender
  • efficient and courteous collaboration with your multiple external and internal stakeholders to answer those requirements
  • lateral thinking around key concepts and service delivery options
  • strong writing skills that present the RFT response clearly and powerfully
  • focus and ability to work under pressure to meet strict deadlines.

Glynis Skepper

Senior Consultant,
Proof Communications

After a long career in customer service management, Glynis altered course to begin work with Proof Communications in 2013.

She is one of those people for whom typos, grammar mistakes and style inconsistencies simply leap off the page. This skill, combined with her meticulous attention to detail, is what makes Glynis an exceptionally thorough editor and proof reader.

Glynis’ first step in the world of work was selling life insurance by cold calling. From this unlikely beginning, Glynis spent many years working for AMP; her last role as the presenter of Financial Services for Women seminars.

A move to the UK gave Glynis the chance to establish her own training consultancy. After a number of years running her own business, she headed home to Australia. For the next eight years Glynis served as the National Customer Service Manager for a privately owned promotional apparel company in Brisbane. Throughout this time, Glynis applied her eye for detail to her employer’s corporate communications.

With her enthusiasm, care and commitment, Glynis brings our clients her ability to greatly improve the quality and readability of their documents, making them the best they can be.

Rosemary Gillespie

Director

Tender Writers is powered by Proof Communications, established by Rosemary Gillespie in 2000. Rosemary began her copywriting, editing and proofreading career working at the BBC in London, before moving to a large global Swiss-based business. It was here that Rosemary discovered her eye for detail that marks out her skills as a superior tender writer, editor and proofreader.

On moving to Australia, Rosemary’s copywriting career continued to flourish. She became a tender writer for global consultancy KPMG and later for top tier law firm Allens Linklaters, before launching Proof Communications.

Since 2000, Rosemary has led Proof Communications’ tender writing success for hundreds of companies. Rosemary has worked on literally hundreds of tenders to government, private companies and listed companies. She has seen every tender/bid scenario and type of response.

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