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We would have loved to have the opportunity to design an embassy and our team would do it well - but without a previous track record doing exactly the same thing we thought it would be a long shot to get through. We did apply though (!), but didn't get shortlisted.

It was a very complicated questionnaire to try to fill in and the website was not very user friendly, so I imagine even people with oodles of experience found it difficult to show it.

On the positive side though, compared to many other tenders like this, the procurement people did give very good feedback so you could see precisely where you lost points, although it didn't really bring up any surprises.

I didn't do very well on the "in 2500 words describe how you would resource international projects while achieving best value" question - so will have to brush up my essay writing skills for next time !! I also lost marks on the 'date and location of formation of our business' question which is a bit random, as I'm sure we filled in the date and location properly!!

Ho hum!