Services
Pre-Bid
Our bid directors work with our clients’ marketing and sales teams to define marketing, sales and communications strategies prior to bid release, to position our clients’ solutions in the best light.
Bid Direction
Setting the strategy and reviewing to ensure compliance with the approach is essential to demonstrate client benefits. Our specialists work with senior management to develop the win strategy, solution benefits and win themes.
Bid Management
Our consultants can undertake a full bid process review and provide advice on areas of strength and what needs improving. Our consultants know what works from many years’ experience of high value bidding across many sectors.
Bid Writing
Bid writers have the skills and training to work with the submission, analyse the requirements and evaluation criteria and produce the detailed storyboards required for high-scoring responses.
Bid Graphics
Bid documentation is one of the most important pieces of corporate communication your organisation produces. It should look like it. Our team of designers draw upon their knowledge and skill to create the best presentation and bid templates. We design high quality print and digital solutions tailored to our clients’ bid.
Bid Review
Review, review, review. We review qualification and competitor analysis and we test the robustness of your win themes. We also provide regular reviews as your bid progresses.
Testimonials
Case Studies
The Bid Team has provided bidding services that have resulted in over £11.4 billion of revenue for clients. The case studies below are some of the more significant wins that clients have achieved.
CACI win position on BBC CMS Modernisation framework
CACI worked with The Bid Team to provide a successful bid submission for a position on the BBC’s Content Management System Modernisation Programme framework. The total value of the framework is £31million.
The Bid Team support eacg's North View framework bid
The North View Group Ltd were seeking partners to support their internal recruitment team. eacg engaged us to review their client engagement process and provide a mid-bid process review service.
The Bid Team support eacg's Mandatory Resource Augmentation project bid
The Bid Team were engaged by eacg to provide a bid process review to ensure that the bid strategy was being implemented during the bidding process.
CACI to deliver NRS Online Instrument framework
CACI will provide an online instrument to allow all households in Scotland to participate in their census online after delivering a successful bid submission for NRS’ Online Collection Instrument framework.
eacg win Aberdeen Asset Management bid
eacg engaged The Bid Team to provide a review of how they structured their bids and to provide bid process review support mid-bid. Our services assisted eacg in improving their bidding procedures and processes.
CACI win DCOMS framework for Scotland census
CACI have been successful in bidding for NRS’ Data Collection Management System framework. This will see them deliver the systems and services required for the smooth and efficient running of Scotland’s Census.
Green Corridor secures funding from City Bridge Trust
Green Corridor engaged The Bid Team to provide strategic bid direction and bid writing for their application to the Horticultural Work Training programme.
Green Corridor wins key funding from BIG Lottery
The Bid Team provided Green Corridor with strategic direction and bid writing services and helped win funding for their outdoor project work on Partner Green Spaces.
Green Corridor wins award from All London Green Grid
Green Corridor engaged The Bid Team to provide bid support in its successful grant application from London’s green infrastructure framework. Our services secured funding for Green Corridor.
Atos wins multiple Ministry of Justice bids
Atos won multiple Ministry of Justice change notes tenders after approaching us for support on their bidding process. The Bid Team’s government sector experience was a key part of our success.
S.com win place on MoD framework with The Bid Team’s services
S.com won a position on the MoD’s Framework Agreement for Consultancy and Information Technology Services, worth £120m overall, after using The Bid Team’s full range of bidding services.
S.com secure spot on EADS framework
The Bid Team’s services helped S.com secure a position on EADS’ Preferred Supplier List for Permanent Personnel Recruitment Services framework. EADS are world leaders in the aviation and defence sectors.
S.com win position on Boeing Managed Service Provider framework
S.com secured a high-value position on a Managed Service Provider framework for Boeing after benefitting from the full range of bidding services on offer from The Bid Team.
NTT Data wins place on Aegon’s Development Systems Summary framework
We provided our management, writing and review services for NTT Data’s successful bid to obtain a place on Aegon’s Development Systems Summary framework. Aegon has become a significant client for NTT Data.
NTT Data secure position on FCA Technology Outsourcing framework
The Bid Team managed NTT Data’s bid to secure a position on the Financial Conduct Authority’s Technology Outsourcing Framework. Our expertise in bidding to Governmental bodies ultimately secured NTT Data a position.
NTT Data win position on SSE's Provisional Functional Testing Services framework
The Bid Team managed, wrote and reviewed NTT Data’s bid for a position on Scottish and Southern Energy's Provisioning of Functional Testing Services framework, helping the global IT service provider’s UK growth.
Vanderlande wins place on MAG framework
Vanderlande engaged The Bid Team to provide complete bid management, writing and layout for this important framework bid. The framework provides a mechanism for providing airport upgrades across the group.
Vanderlande wins Hong Kong third runway project
Vanderlande engaged The Bid Team to provide a review and rewrite of their €250m+ 'lighthouse' project. This win establishes Vanderlande as the leading baggage integrator in the APAC region.
Shorterm wins MTR Crossrail tender
Shorterm engaged The Bid Team to provide a full bid review of their submission to MTR Crossrail for various lots. The tender was successful and a key area for Shorterm.
Shorterm wins Network Rail training framework
Shorterm engaged The Bid Team to provide a review and rewrite of the lots bid at both the PQQ and ITT stages. Shorterm were awarded a place on all lots bid.
Migrant Help finalist for Charity Awards
Migrant Help was a finalist in the 2016 National Charity Awards. A full application was produced, written and visualised by The Bid Team working with Migrant Help’s CEO.
Lanes wins place on Network Rail framework
Lanes engaged The Bid Team to provide bid management and bid writing services for the successful submission to Network Rail to undertaken building, reactive and planned maintenance services.
Lanes wins place on Thames Water framework
Lanes engaged The Bid Team to produce a position paper for Thames Water to demonstrate the innovative new solutions that Lanes had. We produced a highly visual, graphic led document.
G4S wins HMP Oakwood
G4S engaged The Bid Team to provide bid support for the first of a series of new build super-prisons that was still under construction and needed to be phased in to operation.
G4S wins HMP Parc Extension
G4S engaged The Bid Team for writing and graphics support for the successful tender to substantially expand the operational capacity of HMP & YOI Parc. By building an extension block
3M wins NHS National Drapes and Gowns
3M engaged The Bid Team to support a major bid to the NHS for medical drapes and gowns. The Bid Team provided strategy reviews, content reviews and bid-writing services.
3M wins Clinical Coding for Audit Commission
3M won a bid, written by The Bid Team, to provide the Audit Commission with a verification service for clinical coding in NHS trusts. The solution was consultancy and IT- based.
Vanderlande secure early bag store framework for T5
Vanderlande engaged The Bid Team to provide bid management and writing services for this important technical upgrade to Heathrow terminal three. This was a major win for Vanderlande with a key client.
SSAFA secures RAF contract renewal
SSAFA secures a contract renewal for providing services to RAF personnel with assistance from The Bid Team. This was a complete bid outsource and an essential win for SSAFA.
Shorterm wins Network Rail contingent labour framework
Shorterm engaged The Bid Team to provide a bid review and rewrite of all the lots bid. Shorterm scored highest in 33 lots and were awarded the maximum coverage of lines.
Migrant Help supports Syrian Refugee resettlement
Migrant Help engaged The Bid Team for their response to the Home Office to provide resettlement programmes for up to 20,000 refugees. Migrant Help currently provides this service in East Kent.
Arriva wins Northern Rail
Arriva won the rail franchise to operate Northern Rail. The Bid Team provided a structural review of the tender, to ensure that all elements of the bid were utilising the available space.
3M wins NHS Scotland Framework
3M Health Care engaged The Bid Team to provide bid review and bid writing services. Our services secured 105 of the 125 procurement lines on this Scotland wide “must win” framework.
G4S wins HMP Birmingham
G4S engaged The Bid Team to provide bid management, bid writing, graphics and production of their bid for the first ever transfer from public to private operation of a UK prison.
Lanes wins place on TfL Drainage framework
Lanes engaged The Bid Team to bid manage and write the 15 submission documents for this “must win” facilities management contract. This was the first new look bid produce for Lanes.