Is it worth while for a small business or consultancy to tender for Contracts?  I have looked at quite a few tendering sites and fancied a few tenders but in the past I have had a poor experience with the tendering process.  Once I spent an absolutely age preparing a tender document only to find out that the company that won the contract was the same company that had delivered it for the past three years.  I am a small company and that sort of time and resouce spend is really difficult to absorb.

I have also noticed that a lot of the contracts advertised are well over one million pounds, which is way out of my scope, the smaller tenders are still in some cases large amounts.  I am looking for smaller shorter opportunities.  Does anyone have any ideas where I should look.