My big problem is, the company used my papers to gain an edge over the other tender participants and again what if by chance my current employer came across that winning tender and saw my papers indicating that i am also working for the previous company which i declared that I had quit when the current one were hiring me?

Thanks alot guys for the valued advise. I am getting wiser now and I have started seeing things in an informed perspective.

Keep it coming please.

@segemia

3 quick questions:-

1) Was the proposal done after you left the company?
2) Have they included you and your qualifications as one of the key experts in the proposal?
3) Does the contract signed between the tenderer and your former employer indicate you as one of the resources for the project?

If you answered yes in all the 3 above, then your former employer was awarded the contract irregularly. You can make an official complaint to PPOA.

This has happened to me once. I approached my former employer and we had an amicable discussion about the project. Because it was a crucial and strategic project for my former employer, we agreed that they would subcontract to me the work they had proposed that I would do. So we extracted the exact number of days and charge-out rate that my former employer used and added that disbursements would be charged at cost.

For you, since you are working elsewhere, you would need to weigh your options. If your current employer prohibits involvement in projects outside their office, just approach your superior and inform them. If not, get the work subcontracted to you and make some side cash!

Accept and move on!
wachia karma

Ditto

My ninety cents worth. Your CV(educatation experience etc) is your investment, earned by your sweat, money and other resources. And that is why you earn money by hiring out your able services. The benefit accruing to your employer is your service, and even reputation of being associated with you, and they pay for it. No one should be able to benefit from your investment without your permission, or paying for it.

Your former employer has benefited from your investment without paying for it. (They lost the right to use the day you left them.)

It therfore follows that they owe you. (Think of the various models who have successfully sued for compensation when their images were used beyond the agreed time/product without their consent (even though they had initially been paid for those same pictures to be used in the agreed adverts.)

I would not advise you to ruin the former empyers contract without giving them the chance to make good (your aim is not malice, but to be paid for their use of your investment.) If they refuse, and you deem it worthwhile, then speak to a lawyer. Don't forget that you run the risk to ruin your name if they mess up the contract. (Think of the software co that was said to have written the failed tallying software for IEBC, only fro them to try to desperately clear their name when things went awry.