Day: January 23, 2021

Govt amends CSR rules: Corporates can undertake multi-year projects

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The government Friday amended various rules pertaining to the corporate social responsibility (CSR) regime, including allowing corporates to undertake multi-year projects and making registration compulsory for agencies implementing CSR activities on behalf of companies. Besides, companies have been allowed to set the excess amount spent under CSR up to three succeeding financial years. Non-compliance with CSR provisions has been decriminalised by shifting such offences to penalty regime, as per the Corporate Affairs Ministry.

Global cues, selling pressure pull Sensex down by 746 pts

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After hitting the 50,000-level on Thursday, stock markets on Friday came under selling pressure amid weak global markets and persistent worries over Covid pandemic and economic recovery. The benchmark Sensex fell 746 points, or 1.50 per cent, to 48,878.54 and the Nifty50 plummeted 218 points, or 1.50 per cent, to 14,371.90 on across-the-board selling. The benchmark equity indices ended lower for the second straight day, correcting further after making a record high on Thursday. This was the biggest single-day drop for the benchmarks in a month. Friday’s correction marked the end of…

Fuel prices surge once more. Check what people will have to pay in major cities

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Prices of petrol and diesel were raised across the country on Saturday for the fourth time this week as state-run oil marketing companies (OMCs) continued the upward price revision. Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOC), Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL) had resumed daily price revisions on January 6 after nearly a month-long hiatus. This came on the back of international oil prices firming up on hopes of demand returning from the rollout of coronavirus vaccines in different countries, including India.

Bid Management and Task Order Writing

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Understanding both your Client and your Competitors is key to delivering winning bids. The service from our bid specialists and tender specialists here can include: Compiling a Client Intelligence Report that provides insights on your client e.g. what their strategy and objectives are; what are the internal / external forces at work; what their Hot Buttons are likely to be; who their current contractors are and how these are performing; how you can address their approach to risk Compiling a Competitor Intelligence Report that provides insights on your likely competitors e.g.…

Market Strategy and Execution

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Our Market Strategy and Execution offerings provide clients with proven, tailored, and actionable plans, practices, and methodologies. We follow APMP and Shipley Proposal Development best practices to ensure and maintain the highest proposal management standards. Why to focus on US Federal Procurement? Successful business and successful marketing strategy and execution go hand-in-hand, and that is never truer than in the U.S. Federal Government marketplace, which spends more than $3.6T annually—nearly one quarter of the nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP)—on products and services procurements.In terms of pure purchasing power, the U.S.…

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Employing the right capture and proposal process can increase your win probability, grow your business revenue, and decrease your cost of new business acquisition. We can help you achieve this with our proven capture and proposal process support based on in-depth corporate and customer research and analysis. In the most effective companies, processes are designed and optimized for the markets they target. These processes consider the company’s management structure, work culture, customers, and market competitiveness. They are fully integrated from new business opportunity identification to contract award. Whether your company is…

Capture Management

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A considerable time, skill and resource required to write a high quality, high scoring proposal in government marketplace.Capture management is the key to raising win probability during the critical time between deciding to pursue a government procurement and proposal submission—and beyond. The most important action you can take to win a contract is engage in a rigorous capture process; your ability to successfully implement strategic proposal development techniques depends on the quality of the intelligence you’ve gathered and how well you’ve been able to influence the proposal in your favor.…