bid management

A bid management service to help you win

Tsaks Consulting provides bid and tender management services to businesses across the UK. With an experienced team of bid managers and writers in London, Manchester and Birmingham, we help provide a comprehensive bid management service to help organisations secure contracts in the Government and private sector.

Our expert proposal writers have the capability to manage:

• Small bids and responses to ITTs, SQQs and Frameworks
• Medium sized bids to the Government and private sector
• Large, complex infrastructure and international bids for the provision of megaprojects as well as complex IT and other solutions.

Our comprehensive bid management service across the UK entails:

• Writing your response: Our skilled tender and bid writers will work with you to write a compelling and tailored bid. We understand the public and private sector, have written many bids to the NHS and other Trusts, and have the hands-on writing skills needed to ensure you score well. We review the evaluation criteria, formulate responses and write using your previous content, input from you, our own sector knowledge and input from subject matter experts. A key component of our bid management service, whether you are working on a defence, health, construction, community services or other bid from another industry, is our writing capability and it is critical to helping you win.
• Developing engaging graphics and infographics: Bid presentation is equally important especially for large and complex bids. Where you are putting forward complex solutions to significant challenges, an infographic is an excellent tool to communicate those solutions. Through our bid management service, we work to introduce graphics and infographics into your tender so that you have better prospects of success.
• Project managing the bid and tender process: Our team will help you project manage the entire bid process. Where multiple stakeholders are involved, including internal and external consultants, you need a comprehensive plan and checklist to respond to the bid. There are a lot of moving parts with input for different questions coming from different parts of your business. In addition, you need a process to review the tender response and gather input and approval from key stakeholders. Our team will manage your bid and tender writing process so that you can focus on your daily operations.
• Strategy sessions and win themes: Whether you are trying to win a small NHS contract or a large private sector contract, you need to identify your win themes and ensure they align to your clients needs and requirements. This is a critical step in helping you write a successful response and one that our proposal writing experts can help you workshop.
• Creating supporting documentation: Whether it’s a WHS, Quality or environmental policy, or even a CV, case study or modern slavery statement, our team will help you create it to ensure you comply with the relevant tender requirements.

Why engage us to help manage your next bid?

The benefits of engaging us to manage your bid or tender include:

• Our depth of resources: We have a team of five expert bid writers ready to assist with your next tender. We also have sub-contractor writers we can call upon for large complex bids which require specific industry experience. Our Director, Jason Cooney, is hands-on and leads our bid management capability ensuring you have an experienced bid manager guiding your proposal.
• Our government experience: If you are looking to secure a government tender, tap into our extensive experience on what works and what doesn’t. Our team has submitted hundreds of government bids to a range of different UK Government departments and have attended many feedback sessions. We know what works and what doesn’t and will certainly apply our experience to your bid to help you win.
• Our reliability: We are a safe pair of hands for your all-important bid or tender. Whether it’s a framework application in London, or responding to an ITT in Leeds, the Tsaks Consulting team is reliable and a steady pair of hands for your must-win bid or tender. Our transparent approach will provide you comfort knowing that your bid is being proactively managed and that you are putting your best foot forward.

Industries and sectors

Our bid writing and management skills are transferable. We have managed bid across many different sectors and apply our skillset, processes and methodology to help you win regardless of industry. Examples of industries and sectors we have providing bid management support to include:

• Social care: We have helped write and manage bids across all aspects of the social sector including Domiciliary care.
• Construction and building: We have managed construction bids for large infrastructure projects as well as smaller projects for local Councils and small building works.
• Trades and contractors: We help plumbers, electricians and other trades manage and execute the bid writing process.
• Dental and Orthodontic: Our experience writing dental and orthodontic bids extends over seven years.
• Maritime: These include international shipping bids and international maritime services tenders to foreign government, shipping companies and port operators.
• Health and medical (including NHS): Across the UK including in regional and remote areas – we have helped practitioners and other personnel write winning bids to a range of NHS trusts.
• Aviation: Including managing and writing bids to Government agencies for aviation services and catering bids to the aviation industry.
• Defence: Ranging for bid writing in the defence industry for weapons and other munitions to other ancillary MoD tenders.
• Digital, ICT and IT: Including bid managing proposals and responses to framework for G-Cloud and other key frameworks.
• Recruitment: Both blue and white collar.
• Rail and Railway Bids: One of our writers has strong experience in this area.
• Transport: Our experience extends to managing bids and writing proposals across all the rail, road and sea sector.

Regardless of the industry, our bid management services will help you write your bid from start to finish and ensure you position yourself for tender writing success.

Bid Management

Bid management and the tender writing process is a complex one. As such, it can often lead to a strain on internal resources and no time to effectively plan and strategise your approach. This will ultimately lead to disappointment upon submission.

Dependent on your bidding history, you may be apprehensive in adopting the same approach to tenders released. Especially when the previous approach has often led to an unsuccessful bid.

Our team of Bid Management Consultants across the UK, bring extensive tendering experience across a diverse range of sectors. Available within 24 hours of quote acceptance, our Consultants will work directly with your team. They will conduct a comprehensive analysis of tender documentation, your needs and those of the Commissioning Authority.

They will be available throughout the process, from initial stages of your bid application through to submission. Developing a comprehensive bidding pipeline, and key touch points. This provides you with a transparent, flexible timeline that is adapted to suit your schedules.

Our highly experienced Bid Management Consultants will liaise with your team throughout all stages of the bid application. Calls will be scheduled all relevant subject matter experts to ascertain necessary information to be input as part of your submission.

By bringing industry leading best practice, our Consultants will provide recommendations on logical structuring, optimum content and forward facing offerings to the Commissioning Authority. With all content purpose built with the evaluation panel in mind.

We cover all bid application milestones, as mutually agreed upon, in addition to implementing a procedure that can be followed after the conclusion of our services.