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				<title>Tender Team’s Winning Tenders - Tue 19th June</title>
				<link>http://www.tenderteam.ie/news-events/upcoming-events/tender-teams-winning-tenders-tue-19th-june</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ Training &amp; Workshop on tendering  ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2012 08:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>Tender Team on Today FM</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[ <p>Wayne Dignam, Managing Director of Tender Team was a guest of the Sunday Business Show on Today FM last Sunday April 1st talking about tendering with presenter Conall O&rsquo;Morain.</p> ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 17:05:00 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>New International Tendering Service</title>
				<link>http://www.tenderteam.ie/news-events/team-blog/new-international-tendering-service</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ <h2>Help with winning contracts abroad</h2>
<p>We have developed a tailored Tendering Service to help you win contracts abroad through practical advice and support.</p> ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:28:00 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>Opportunities in Public Sector Procurement Report</title>
				<link>http://www.tenderteam.ie/news-events/team-blog/opportunities-in-public-sector-procurement-report</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ <p><span style="font-weight: normal;">Brian Hayes TD, Minister of State with special responsibility for the Office of Public Works (OPW) and Minister for Small Business John Perry recently launched a major new Report on Opportunities in Public Sector Procurement.</span></p>
<p>The Report, compiled by Dr.</p> ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>Green Public Procurement (GPP) - Buying Green! </title>
				<link>http://www.tenderteam.ie/news-events/team-blog/green-public-procurement-gpp-buying-green</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ <h2>Green Tenders and GPP&nbsp;</h2>
<p>The European Union (EU) drive to integrate environmental requirements and considerations &nbsp;into public purchasing contracts, has led to the introduction of Green tenders, an action plan on Green public procurement, into Ireland.&nbsp;</p>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 11:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>National Procurement Awards 2011</title>
				<link>http://www.tenderteam.ie/news-events/team-blog/national-procurement-awards-2011</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ <p>Tender Team shortlisted for &lsquo;<strong>Best Procurement Team</strong>&rsquo; and &lsquo;<strong>Excellence in Procurement involving indigenous SME&rsquo;s</strong>&rsquo; at the National Procurement Awards 2011!</p>
<p><img src="http://www.tenderteam.ie/assets/images/News/Best Procurement Team Finalist.jpg" alt="" width=</p> ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 09:54:00 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>Procurement Connection 2010 - UK</title>
				<link>http://www.tenderteam.ie/news-events/team-blog/procurement-connection-2010-uk</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ <h2>Connecting the public sector with local business</h2>
<p>Procurement Connection is a community interest company for local private and public sector
 business community gain. Hosting events across the UK with the sole 
purpose of connecting local public sector organisations with their local
 business community.</p> ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 17:17:00 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>Price is King</title>
				<link>http://www.tenderteam.ie/news-events/team-blog/price-is-king</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ <p>&lsquo;If the price is too good to be true, let the supplier prove otherwise&rsquo; is a comment a buyer told me recently. Price is king in the public tendering market at present, so learn to find the correct trade off between price and capability.</p> ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 14:14:00 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>Standardised suite of procurement documents launched</title>
				<link>http://www.tenderteam.ie/news-events/team-blog/standardised-suite-of-procurement-documents-launched</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ <p>The National Procurement Service has produced a suite of documents to be used across the Central Government Departments/Civil Service for the procurement of low to medium risk goods and services.</p> ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 14:14:00 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>What is the National Procurement Service?</title>
				<link>http://www.tenderteam.ie/news-events/team-blog/what-is-the-national-procurement-service</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ <p>The National Procurement Service (NPS) has put in place in excess of 40 contracts and frameworks with a total value of &euro; 414 million since 2009. The most recent tender the NPS managed was for central purchasing of managed print services for the public sector, worth &euro; 100,000,000.</p> ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 14:13:00 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>Speech on Government Procurement by David Cameron</title>
				<link>http://www.tenderteam.ie/news-events/team-blog/speech-on-government-procurement-by-david-cameron</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ <p>Today, we are announcing big changes to the way government does business.</p>
<p>By that, I mean what I say: literally, the way it does business.</p>
<p>The contracts it signs, the goods and services it purchases - and the way it purchases them.</p>
<p>We need to make the system much more open, competitive and transparent.</p> ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 16:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>Tendering to Win - The Importance of Competitive Intelligence</title>
				<link>http://www.tenderteam.ie/news-events/team-blog/tendering-to-win-the-importance-of-competitive-intelligence</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ <h2>written by Tony Corrigan</h2>
<h2>Knowing your Enemy</h2>
<p>To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy said Sun Tzu, in the Art of War.</p> ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 16:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>HSE increase in tendering activity planned</title>
				<link>http://www.tenderteam.ie/news-events/team-blog/hse-increase-in-tendering-activity-planned</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ <p>Due to exceptional demand, Tender Team is running another seminar on the topic <a href="http://www.tenderteam.ie/news-events/completed-events/tendering-to-the-hse-in-2011">&lsquo;Tendering to the HSE in 2011&rsquo;</a> on Thursday 14th April.</p> ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>Tender Team Quoted in Sunday Times Article</title>
				<link>http://www.tenderteam.ie/news-events/team-blog/tender-team-quoted-in-sunday-times-article</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ <h2>Repeated studies show that small firms in Ireland find the public-sector tendering process too difficult to engage with, but help is at hand.</h2>
<p>PAUL BARRY, the founder of Temetra, a Clonmel-based software company, is in the unusual position of relishing the prospect of domestic water metering.</p> ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Sun, 20 Feb 2011 12:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>Tendering to the HSE in 2011</title>
				<link>http://www.tenderteam.ie/news-events/team-blog/tendering-to-the-hse-in-2011</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ <h2><em><strong><em>Very important notice for providers of Services and Supplies ......</em></strong></em></h2>
<h3>Tender Team Seminar on Tendering to the HSE in 2011</h3>
<p>Tender Team are pleased to announce a specifically tailored seminar <a title="Tendering to the HSE in 2011" href="http://www.tenderteam.ie/news-events/completed-events/tendering-to-the-hse-in-2011">'Ten</a></p> ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>Getting the most out of www.etenders.gov.ie</title>
				<link>http://www.tenderteam.ie/news-events/team-blog/getting-the-most-out-of-www.etenders.gov.ie</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ <h2>Background to <a href="http://www.etenders.gov.ie">www.etenders.gov.ie</a></h2>
<p><a title="Getting the most out of www.etenders.gov.ie" href="http://www.etenders.gov.ie">www.etenders.gov.ie</a> was set up by the Irish Government to facilitate best practice in procurement for public bodies, agencies and authorities when ad</p> ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 15:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>Public Procurement in Ireland needs reform</title>
				<link>http://www.tenderteam.ie/news-events/team-blog/public-procurement-in-ireland-needs-reform</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ <h2>The public procurement process in Ireland is in need of reform, writes Wayne Dignam.</h2>
<p><a title="Public Procurement in Ireland needs reform" href="http://www.tenderteam.ie/assets/files/downloads/Public_Procurement_Reform.pdf">Click here to download the full article</a></p>
<p>Defeated England World Cup bid leader And</p> ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 17:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>Sammon Group win €120 million project</title>
				<link>http://www.tenderteam.ie/news-events/team-blog/sammon-group-win-€120-million-project</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ <p>Congratulations to Sammon Group who have been awarded 5 new school projects valued at &euro;120 million in Abu Dhabi in United Arab Emirates (UAE).</p>
<p>Our sister company <a href="http://www.daracreative.ie">Dara Creative</a> created a new branding programme, suite of brochures, templates for tender documents and presenta</p> ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 14:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>National Procurement Awards 2010</title>
				<link>http://www.tenderteam.ie/news-events/team-blog/national-procurement-awards</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ <p>Tender Team has been shortlisted for the award of &lsquo;Excellence in Public Procurement involving indigenous SMEs&rsquo; for the upcoming National Procurement Awards night on November 16th.<br />&nbsp;<br />Our team is delighted that our work within the SME sector has been recognised and that we have delivered millions of e</p> ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 15:23:00 +0100</pubDate>
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				<title>The 12-Step Guide to Better Proposals</title>
				<link>http://www.tenderteam.ie/news-events/team-blog/the-12-step-guide-to-better-proposals</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ <p><strong>Date:</strong> 24th, September 2010&nbsp; <strong>Author:</strong> Wayne Dignam</p>
<p>Over the years, the lives of many people have changed dramatically as a result of 12- Step Programs like that which form the foundation of Alcoholics Anonymous.</p>
<p>The success of these programs led me to look up the steps to s</p> ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 18:14:00 +0100</pubDate>
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