Fees
Cost effective tender and bid writing service to help you win
Our fee structure is designed to enable our team to deliver to help your business reach its peak of excellence. We are also committed to deliver our services cost effectively. We work efficiently to quickly get to know your business and understand your bid. We provide hourly rate as well as fixed rate options – and are always transparent in our approach.
We are a service oriented business – that means our tender and bid writers, as well as our Directors, are hands-on, working on your bid or tender. We keep our team lean, with minimal back-end reporting and administration. This enables us to keep our prices low and delivery quality services.
Obligation free fee proposal and quote
We are happy to provide a fee proposal or quote to assist with your bid or tender. We generally also propose an exploratory call so we can understand the extent of your existing documentation, the level of detail in the RFP, SQQ or Framework, and the scope of services required.
Once we have this information, we will provide you with a detailed quote as either an hourly rate or fixed fee.
Fixed Price Quotes for UK Tenders and Bids – Tender Writing Services Cost
We provide fixed price quotes for bids or tenders. These generally depend on the length and scope of the bid documentation. As a general guide, our fixed fees often range from:
- Small (up to 10 pages) tender response or business proposal £450 – £2000 pounds. These can be small government bids or even private sector bids and proposals.
- Medium (up to 25 pages) tender response or business proposal £2000 – £5,000 pounds. These are generally medium sized government bids or frameworks applications. They generally take two weeks or so to complete with including communication back and forth with drafts and content revisions.
- Large (up to 100 pages) tender response or business proposal £5,000– £20,000+ These bids and tenders are often to the public sector for large framework applications or private sector bids. Our team is involved in project managing the bid as well as writing the submission. Our pricing is generally based on an hourly rate as it’s difficult to quantify our bid writing service due to the many variables that impact the total number of hours of work involved.
Our proposed fee will depend on:
- The size and scope of the tender. If you are asking yourself, how much does it cost to write a tender or bid to government, the answer is largely governed by the questions asked, word limits and scope of the tender. The more questions, particularly qualitative questions that require written responses, the increased the preparation time and thus the cost. Generally speaking, we can review the RFP, ITT or tender documentation and create an estimate of how much work is involved.
- The extent of your existing marketing material. The more existing content you have, the easier and more efficient it is to write your tender. That doesn’t mean we use Chat-GPT or AI to create write it or simply cut and past your previous content, we will write your bid – but with the support of the previous content. It give us something to tailor and work with.
- If graphics are required for the tender response or not. Graphics and presentation take time – as do infographics. If they are not required, our proposed fees are generally lower.
Hourly rate fee
Our team can also provide you a simple hourly rate fee. This is particularly popular when we are conducting a tender review or bid review. We work off a base fee of 110 + VAT per hour. We also provide hourly rates for our full bid writing service and report in 30-minute intervals on our work.
This transparent approach ensures you know you are getting value from our services and we want you to win your bid.
Monthly contracts
We provide a bid administration service and bid search service. Our tender writing consultants will work with you to deliver a package that includes a bid search service and bid administration service. These packages start from 500 + VAT per month and will be tailored to your needs.
Frequently asked questions about our fees and charges
How much does it cost to get a bid or framework application professionally written?
Our tender and bid writing fees depend on the scope of the tender, the size of the framework or ITT, and what type of existing documentation you have. Most of the bids we work on are government tenders and some are larger than others. The average cost of a tender or bid we assist with is 4,000 + VAT.
Regarding location, it doesn’t matter where you are based across the UK – the costs of our bid writing services will be the same. I.e. if you are a business in London, York, Birmingham, Manchester or Scotland, our fees are the same and we provide a remote service from our London offices.
What is the cost of an expert bid writer in the UK to help us with a bid or tender?
Our experienced tender writing consultants help businesses from all industries including healthcare (NHS), construction, maintenance, defence and community services. At Tsaks Consulting, our fees start from 110 + VAT per hour.
I need a bid written. How much will it cost?
Speak to your team of bid writers today. We will review your bid and provide you with a free fee proposal.
We help businesses write bids and tenders across the UK to the Government and private sector and offer a free quote to help you understand what our service costs and what is involved in engaging us to help you with your next bid.
Our tender and bid writing service extends across the UK, applies to all industries and we deliver quality proposal writing services at affordable fees without compromising on quality.