Anyone done Gov tenders?

[tazdevil]

The tender process tends to be the stumbling block always a complete pain and full of unnecessary crud relevant only to bugger companies. Unless your customer knows you they won't normally take a risk on you and government types are very conservative when it comes to choosing a supplier. I've done loads of work for mostly local government but only got that work through recommendation never via open tender even though I've put in numerous bids

[SimonMac]

Depends on how you apply. Get on the DOS framework (DOS4 is now closed so you'll have to wait until DOS5 opens) and one man bands are fine

[Lance]

Has anyone done bidding on gov tenders directly?

I'd like to know how flexible are they to small scale companies?

yes.
They are quite flexible.

However, you will spend a LOT of time going round the houses with the tender process. For that reason I have almost always ended up not finishing the process.

[cojak]

Applying to the G-Cloud framework - GOV.UK

[mdhd]

Has anyone done bidding on gov tenders directly?

I'd like to know how flexible are they to small scale companies?