TI Partners delivers solutions within four main areas of public sector-related services:

• Analysis and formulation of pre-bidding arrangements
• Proposal-writing (bid-writing)
• Project management and/or expert input, project assessment
• Institution-building advisory and management training services within the fields of organisational development, communication and financial plans.

Pre-bidding arrangements, bid-writing

We have experience with writing complete proposals addressing international donor institutions, such as the EU programmes Phare and Tacis, through our Cologne area office;  and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), through our Stockholm area office.

On assignment by our clients, we also offer identification and partnering of consortium members.

Project management and/or expert input

We are working with the international branch of the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions on a long-term basis. This work includes various short-term assignments (bid-writing and project assessments) as well as management of various donor-financed projects and programmes. Work in this sector is usually financed by the international donor community.

Our assignments often involve working in different geographical areas on long-term or short-term contracts.

Example:
Through our Stockholm area office, we have been participants in EU Project PrestoSpace, an EUR 18 million Integrated Project within the EU Commission’s 6th Framework Programme of Research & Development. PrestoSpace brought together participants in the audio, video and film archive industry within and outside the EU, with a view to providing standards and integrated systems for digital preservation of all types of audio, video and film collections which were originally recorded in analogue format.

The role of TI Partners was to input into the market analysis, to ensure successful exploitation of PrestoSpace’s recommendations.

Institution-building

We have provided input to institution-building in many different countries. Some assignments have included project management and expertise input such as drafting of institutional and organisational development plans. Other assignments have included managing training components and the drafting of training modules in management techniques.

Example:
Our Stockholom area office has been assigned on a long-term project in Bucharest, Romania, working for the Ministry of Environment (EU/Phare project) with re-organisation of the environmental protection agencies. Ongoing institution-building assignments include various short-term and long-term action planning and follow-up in various development projects in Eastern Europe and the Republic of South Africa.

Our ability to deliver is based on a combination of skills and experiences, in particular:

• our industry knowledge coupled with work assignments representing the entire project cycle - planning, partnering and bid-writing; implementation - . project management and expertise input; and reporting, e.g. writing final reports, assessments and recommendations to donors;

The nature of our work varies from short-term during one phase of the project cycle to overall responsibility from initiation to final reporting of projects.