Can you outsource the writing of your TQS application?

Before I deal with the final two big mistakes that organisations make when they’re preparing their TQS application, I thought I’d deal with a question that people ask again and again. It’s the question about who writes the application.

The question is really about if you can offload the whole job onto someone else, preferably someone outside your organisation?

It does happen. I’ve already been asked to write a Part A application on at least four occasions.

But does it work? Well, it depends. . .

If you want to hand over the whole job to someone else, – a bid writer, a copywriter, a consultant, anyone who will take the job away - the application produced probably won’t present your organisation as well as it might.

However, if you take the advice in the previous post, and appoint a project manager from inside your organisation, then get some people collecting the evidence that is going to make up the meat of the application and have someone ready to review and edit and revise the document – then, maybe.

Keeping the whole job in-house must make most sense, but if you really are struggling with the writing, getting someone who likes to write on your team could help you with the task and make life a little bit easier for you.

Just don’t think that you can hand the job over to someone outside your organisation and forget about it.

There’s more to the TQS application than that.