Services
Three ways to work with us on public sector bids, depending on how much you want us to take on and how often you bid.
Bid review and support
A final review of your quality responses, a compliance check, pricing support or extra capacity when your team is stretched. You choose what you need.
What's included For one tender or frameworkFull bid management
We handle the whole bid end to end, including the PSQ, every quality response, clarification questions, supporting documents and submission through the portal. If there's a presentation stage, we help you prepare for it.
What's included For several bids a monthMonthly bid cycles
We look for new opportunities every day using our own tools, keep track of your renewals and focus on capture, so you're ready before tenders are published. Each bid you go for is then run end to end, the same as full bid management.
What's includedBid review and support
You're writing the bid in-house and want help with specific parts of it. If you have a bid team, we work alongside them and take on what they don't have capacity for. We agree the scope with you first.
Choose what you need
- A final review of your quality responses against the buyer's scoring criteria
- A compliance check of the whole submission against the tender instructions
- Pricing support, from completing the pricing schedule to research and positioning your price. The prices stay your decision.
- Extra capacity when your team is stretched, taking on specific parts such as individual quality responses, policies or coordinating the submission
Full bid management
We take the bid off your hands, from the first read of the tender pack to submission. Nothing goes in until you've approved it.
You send what you already have, such as previous submissions, certificates and policies, through a shared folder, SharePoint or whatever you use. We build it into an evidence library for the bid, which shows us what's covered and what's missing. If we still need anything, we work around your diary and your team to get it. That might be a call with you, or with whoever in your business knows the answer.
What's included
- A bid or no-bid recommendation before any work starts
- The PSQ
- Every quality response, written in your voice
- Policies drafted where you don't have them
- Supporting documents gathered and checked
- Clarification questions to the buyer
- A final compliance check
- Submission through the portal
- Help preparing for a presentation stage, if there is one
Not every bid has all of these. Some are a single submission, some run in two stages with a PSQ first and the full tender (ITT) once you're shortlisted, and some end with a presentation. We run whichever stages your bid has and support you with everything it needs.
Back to the three servicesMonthly bid cycles
For businesses that bid regularly. Much of what wins a contract happens before the tender is published, so we put a big focus on capture, positioning you with buyers well before their contracts come out. We also cover cold tenders, where you haven't dealt with the buyer before, with a clear bid or no-bid on each. Every bid you decide to go for is then run end to end.
What's included
Cold bidding and renewals
- Daily searches for new tenders, frameworks and DPSs
- Your renewals tracked, so you're ready when a contract, framework or DPS you're on comes back out to tender
- A contract summary and a bid or no-bid recommendation on each one in your line of work. If we don't think you can win it, we'll tell you, even if it's not what you want to hear.
Capture
- A pipeline of the contracts you're targeting, so you can see what's coming and plan for it
- Early notice of pre-market engagement and meet the buyer events
- Help building relationships with the buyers behind the contracts you're targeting
- An understanding of what each buyer needs before the tender is written, so you already have a clear idea of your response when it's published
When you decide to bid
- Every bid run end to end, the same as full bid management
- Priority as a monthly client
You can combine these. We might run one bid for you end to end and review another your team is writing.
We also help with grant and funding applications. Get in touch and we'll talk it through.
Once we take on a tender, framework or DPS with you, we won't work on it for anyone else.