What digital tools help manage offers?
Manage offers in public tenders ... Uff, that's an art. It is not just sending papers and now, you have to be half ninja: precision, speed, and not go out of line with the law. And look, the digital age arrived just in time. Now there is an arsenal of digital tools that save your life. Really, if you still do everything on paper, friend, you are living in prehistory.
The tenders management software (yes, that e-process of which everyone speaks) is basically the bread of each day for anyone who takes this seriously. Let you look for opportunities, prepare proposals, control limits (because there is always one that you forget) and have all the papers in order. There are several names spinning, Type Proactis, Bravosolution, Eu Supply ... The list is not short.
Most of these programs can look for new tenders, save and organize documents, send you alerts so that you do not lose deadlines, and let you work as a team without killing you in the attempt. They also throw reports and analysis so that you do not continue making the same error as always. It is like having a personal mini-analist that does not charge you extra hours.
Ah, and do not underestimate the power of a good CRM (yes, those systems to deal with customers). They serve a lot to keep a record of everything: who answered you, what offers you won or lost, and they help you to catch what strategies they work and which ones give pure grief.
You want more? Get Trello, Asana or any of those apps to organize projects. They are perfect to distribute tasks, mark responsible, and stop sending a thousand mails. So everyone knows what they have to do and when, without dramas.
And please stop keeping everything in physical folders. Use Google Drive, Dropbox or whatever you can think of in the cloud. Thus your team access the documents from anywhere and there are no scares if someone spills coffee on the important papers.
Summarizing: together all these tools and you have a winning combo to handle offers in public tenders. But look, it's not magic either. If people do not know how to use them or choose the wrong tool, it doesn't matter. You have to fall well on the subject and fix that everything complies with the law and the requirements of each tender. If not ... better or mess.