About Evia Consultancy
Evia was founded by Vlad Lewis and Tristan Walker.
We've been friends since year seven, and building something together was always the plan. Then, in an economics lesson at college, we stumbled across public procurement.
We'd assumed the government just picked companies to do the work. It turned out that so much of what keeps the country running, from infrastructure to specialist advice, is won by businesses through tenders. The company cleaning your local council's offices and the contractor resurfacing the road outside both won that work by bidding for it. It all happens out of sight, and you'd never know unless you went digging.
Getting to see behind the curtain fascinated us. Behind each tender is a buyer setting out what they need, and businesses competing to show they're the right choice. Winning that work means long, detailed proposals that eat up time and resource, whatever the size of the business. We'd both always been strong writers, and here was an industry where good writing makes a real difference to who wins. After months of research, we made a conscious decision to go for it.
We spent the best part of a year learning the trade before writing a single live bid. We did bid writing courses and had one-to-ones with experienced bid writers. We also spoke to people who evaluate bids, all while working part-time jobs. We chose this over university and backed ourselves.
From that moment, it snowballed, and we've now helped businesses across all sorts of industries win public sector work.
Our mission
Our mission is to bring a fresher perspective to public sector bidding. From the outside, it can look like a dry, box-ticking exercise, and for plenty of businesses it feels like a chore. We want to make it a process our clients enjoy being part of.
We want that for every business we work with, whatever their size. Plenty of capable businesses miss out on public sector work because winning it takes serious time and expertise. Others already bid regularly and want to win more of what they go for, or take on more than their team can manage. Either way, we're here to help them win more of it.
It might sound like a cliché, but there's no better feeling than finding out a bid we've worked on together has won. Every bid we write puts our reputation on the line, so your result matters to us as much as it does to you.
A note on AI and security
Mention AI and most people picture a public chatbot writing the whole bid. That's not how we work. We use our own system, hosted in the EU, and your documents and information stay inside it. They're never used to train AI models. We also sign a mutual NDA with every client.
Our tools handle the groundwork, from finding tenders to building a checklist of every requirement and checking your submission against it. That all has to happen before the real writing can start. Automating it leaves more of our time for the writing itself, and it's a big part of how we keep our fees down.