Bid and Tender Writing Consultants for the Rail Sector
Jason Cooney leads our team of bid writer that service the rail sector. Our team brings a combined 42 years experience writing bids in the rail and railway sector. In addition to having held in-house roles in rail companies both in the UK and internationally, our team has strong experience writing and winning public sector bids as well as a graphic design capability that is now critical to winning large PPP and infrastructure bids in the UK.
Rail Tenders and Bids:
Our specialist bid writing service for rail industry tenders and contracts is built on the specialist bid writing experience of two of our bid writers in the rail and rolling stock industry. Our team has worked on bids across the sector including for major rail infrastructure projects, Rolling stock procurement and maintenance contracts.
Rail Infrastructure Projects
We have helped a range of rail companies write bids and tenders to Network Rail. Network Rail is responsible for rail infrastructure and often releases RFI, Tenders and bids for a range of projects and services such as signaling upgrades and rail improvements. Network Rail use a similar RFP document format for most of their procurement initiatives. Our write bid writers know their way around it and assist businesses servicing the rail industry to write compelling proposals for rail industry businesses large and small.
Rolling Stock Procurement
The rail industry often involves Train operating companies issuing tenders to buy and sometimes sell new and refurbished trains. With an expanding rail network across the UK, there is the need to increase stock and meet customer demand as well as to replace ageing fleets.
Our team of bid writing consultants have helped international and local rail companies writing bids and tenders for the sale of rolling stock.
Maintenance Contracts and bids
We have helped many businesses that service the rail industry to win contracts with network rail and the UK government over the years. This includes cleaning companies, consultancies that repair and maintain trains and other rail infrastructure, as well as engineering inspections services. Our writers know the terminology and work with small and medium consultancies to win contracts across the country.
Different types of contracts in the rail industry
Our writing consultants have written bids for international and local companies across the UK bidding for all different types of rail contracts including:
- Design and build contracts: Where our client is a single entity bidding to design and build the rail project.
- Design-Build-Operate-Maintain (DBOM) Contracts: We have helped international companies bid for these contracts to Network Rail and more broadly across the globe. These are generally quite complex bids and tenders and we work with key internal engineers and stakeholders as part of their teams to prepare comprehensive submissions. We also help recruit bid writers for these firms who are looking to increase their in-house capability.
- Alliances and Joint Ventures: We work constructively with our clients and their partners to contribute to tender writing teams for larger bids or contracts which they are bidding on as part of an alliance.
- Framework Agreements: We have strong experience writing applications and submissions for framework agreements across the UK for a range of different frameworks such as CCS.
Case studies and experience in the rail sector
Our bid writers have helped our clients win contracts and writing winning bids and tenders for some of the country’s most iconic rail projects including:
- Crossrail: This was one of the largest infrastructure projects in Europe. We helped our client bid for a range of contracts and aspects of work associated with the new railway line that ran through central London.
- HS2: The High Speed 2 (HS2) project is a high-speed railway line that will connect London, Birmingham, and Manchester. We have helped clients submit many tenders and bids associated with the project including proposals for tunnelling expertise.
- Great Northern Railway Upgrade: This involves the upgrade of the Great Northern Railway line between London and Peterborough. Our team of bid writers, including Director, Jason Cooney, has helped clients bid for works related to signaling and station improvements.
Servicing the UK
We service clients both internationally, who are looking to bid for rail sector contracts in the UK, as well as locally across the UK. Our team has helped businesses based in London, Manchester, Leeds, Glasgow, Birmingham, Liverpool, Bristol and Cardiff.