Are you a Derby or Derbyshire based business that is looking to win more Council, Government, private or NHS contracts? At Tsaks Consulting, we are committed to helping businesses in the region win high value contracts and framework appointments through our professional bid writing service. We have a 94% success rate this year helping organisations in Derby and the Derbyshire region write winning bids.

Our team, led by Jason Cooney, skilled in writing bids, tenders and proposals as well as responding to PQQs, RFPs and others. For example, we have a comprehensive understanding of the Derby City Council procurement and framework process and have helped many small and medium businesses win DPS, frameworks and contracts.

Expert bid writing services for all industries in Derby

Our team of bid and tender writers help businesses in Derby and Derbyshire from a wide variety of different industries including:

Construction and trades bid writing

Our team specialises in securing contracts and winning bids for local and regional construction firms, contractors and tradespeople such as electricians, plumbers and carpenters. We have also helped a broad range of specialist contractors in Derbyshire win contracts and frameworks across the UK. Our experience includes helping contractors win frameworks with the Derby City Council, contracts for major infrastructure projects across the Midlands, and maintenance contracts both in the private and public sector including with a number of housing associations and frameworks (such as CCS). We also help clients find contract opportunities not only with Derby City Council but other government agencies and the NHS.

In our experience, a key point to winning any construction or building and maintenance ITT or RFP in Derby or across the region is your methodology. In addition to expertise, experience and detailed case studies, your proposed methodology has significant weighting on the result. Our writers help you translate the program into a robust methodology to help you communicate your proposed key points of difference and explain how you will deliver value, efficiency and quality in any project or long term contract.

NHS, medical and healthcare bid writing

Our tender writers in Derby have strong experience helping locally based and regional healthcare and medical services providers NHS and other medical and healthcare contracts (including allied health services). To be successful when bidding in the healthcare sector, you need to demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of governance, CQC compliance and patient pathways. This is critical across all NHS England frameworks, allied health services and specialisations such as dentistry.

Another key point which in our experience is critical to winning medical frameworks and bids across Derbyshire and all over the UK is a patient focused approach. You need to integrate the idea of being patient focused throughout your bid or tender to ensure you demonstrate that your organisational culture incorporates a strong focus on the patient.

Education and community services bid writing

From social services to education equipment supply, Tsaks Consulting has helped businesses in Derby write winning bids and framework applications as well as SQQ response. We know the language and communications strategies required to win education industry tenders across the UK and will apply these to institutions in Derbyshire for education tenders.

The same applies to community services where social care and other forms of community service form a large part of the local economy and social fabric. One of our writers based outside Derbyshire focuses solely on the community and not for profit sector and works with our locally based writers to deliver compelling bids that communicate value and care.

Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering Bid Writing

With Derby being a major hub for global engineering and manufacturing, particularly in the rail and aerospace sector, our team of bid writers gave gained significant experience and a track record of success helping clients bid for and win contracts and frameworks in the advanced manufacturing sector. These are generally technically complex, highly technical RFPs and RFTs with a strong focused on solutions. From helping local SMEs with their first supply contract, to major suppliers bidding for long term contracts with global organisations, we have the experience to project manage the highly technical responses.

A key strategy for winning any manufacturing tender is to comprehensively address quality control and modern slavery. You need to demonstrate a robust level of supply chain resistance and show that you have a well thought out supply chain and regularly monitor your supply chain as well as your quality of work or supply.

Logistics and Transport Bid Writing in Derby

Derby is well connected through road links and there is a strong local logistics industry which covers road haulage, warehousing, fleet management an also specialised logistics. Our bid writers here at Tsaks Consulting in Derby have helped local transport businesses win contracts including fleet management contracts. We have an 85% success rate in this sector and a track record of helping local businesses increase revenue through bids an tenders.

We are experienced in writing compelling bids that cover:

• Route optimisation
• Safety processes and protocols
• The use of tracking technology and other telematics in the logistics industry.

In order to secure haulage and logistics contracts, we recommend you focus on:

• Operational efficiency.
• Security (C-TPAT, AEO Compliance).
• Service levels.

Professional service, finance and ICT bid writing consultant in Derby and Derbyshire

Whether you are a Derby based IT consultancy or managed services provider bidding for a new system or program development with the local Council, or a law or financial services firm bidding for a government contract, our team of bid writers has the experience and framework writing know-how to help you win.

Whilst demonstrating social value is critical in all government bids across Derbyshire, in order to win ICT or professional services contracts, you also need to evidence your:

• Commitment to Cyber Essentials (generally through certification)
• Understanding of the relevant public sector procurement protocols
• Data security processes
• Expertise and depth of experience in each individual practice area
• Experience delivering on complex contracts and framework agreements over the long term.

Bid writing in Derby and Derbyshire for all industries

Our tender and bid writing skillset is transferable. We have helped organisations bid for and win contracts across all industries from defence, to landscaping and catering. Our team of bid writers know how to win contracts in Derby and Derbyshire and apply our learnings across all industries.

Navigating the different procurement bodies in Derby and across Derbyshire

Many business in Derby struggle to identify tender and bid opportunities in Derby and across Derbyshire. In order to navigate the process, you need to have some understanding of the local authorities which release bids and frameworks in Derby and across Derbyshire. Our team of writers can guide you in this regard and provide you with updates and notifications of relevant bids and framework opportunities. Local bodies include:

• Derby City Council and Derbyshire County Council – With their strong emphasis on social value and engaging the local supply chain, you need a highly tailored, localised response to be successful. There are also e-procurement platforms which they use to procure and you will need to comply with and utilise in order to submit your bid.
• Derby NHS Trust and Burton NHS trust – There are many different types of contracts made available through the trusts, as well as other submissions through different frameworks such as the NHS Shares Business Services framework. Our expert bid writers will ensure that your technical response meets the mandatory criteria and reflects the clinical standards of the trust as well as the specific criteria that is built into the framework questionnaire.
• District Councils (which we detail later in this page) – again, locality is absolutely critical as is your ability to deliver value for money without sacrificing quality.

Contact our team today to speak with our bid writers in Derby to discuss what opportunities there are, where you should be looking for framework and contract opportunities, and how we can help you win.

A winning edge with Tsaks Consulting – Your local Derby and Derbyshire bid writing service

Tsaks Consulting UK has won over 96% of the tenders and bids we have assisted with for businesses in Derby and the wide Derbyshire region. Our bid and tender writers help businesses throughout the Derbyshire region write winning bids and tenders. We have a deep local knowledge and understand of key regional economic, social and community dynamics – all of which help us craft compelling and persuasive bids.

We also bring over ten years experience writing bids, DPS and framework responses to:

• Local authorities: Derby City Council, Derbyshire Dales, Amber Valley etc
• NHS trusts: operating across the East Midlands
• Private sector buyers.

We have an overall 96% success rate and have helped businesses write bids and framework applications in Chesterfield and Swadlincote as well as in all eight districts:

• Amber Valley – including to Amer Valley Borough Council
• Bolsover – including Bolsover District Council
• Derbyshire Dales – including Derbyshire Dales District Council
• North East Derbyshire – including North East Derbyshire District Council
• South Derbyshire – including South Derbyshire District Council
• Chesterfield- including Chesterfield Borough Council
• Erewash – Including Erewash Borough Council
• High Peak – including High Peak Borough Council.

Our local knowledge as well as understanding of the local economy and government sector is one of the key reasons Tsaks Consulting UK has a high success rate helping businesses win contracts in Derbyshire. The services we provide include:

• Bid, framework, tender and contract identification and search
• Bid and tender writing
• Bid, tender and framework review
• Bid and content library development

A key feature of a successful bid writing strategy for each Council in Derby and across Derbyshire is localisation. You need to tailor you bid to the individual needs of the specific local Council, their values and their future projects and plans.

In addition, when bidding to Derbyshire County Council, which has authority over education, highways, social services and other key services (not including Derby City Council), it important to incorporate the needs of the entire region.

Five proven bid writing strategies to win contracts in Derby

Our team of bid and tender writers have provided bid and framework writing support to businesses in Derby and the surrounding area with great success. Strategies that local and regional business can adopt to win more public and private sector contracts include:

1. Maximise your local economic and social value

Derby Council and other local government clients across Derbyshire prefer clients who are committed to the local region and are locally based. Our writers will help you demonstrate this by focusing on:

• Local spending and procurement – and how you will ensure you spend revenue from the contract in the local community and engage local suppliers
• Employment and information and skills transfer – talk about any training programs that will result in the up-skilling of workers across Derbyshire and in your specific local area.
• Social outcomes including any community programs you will support.

2. Write concisely and include evidence to achieve success

Short sentences. Concise writing, Bullet points and lists. Lots of evidence to back up any claims. These are all ingredients of a quality tender, bid or framework application.

You need to fit as much high scoring content as possible into your response and need to ensure you comply with the requirements. Avoiding general marketing talk or generic statements and writing a proposal that is to the point will help you score well and work within prescribed word limits.

3. Integrate win themes throughout your bid and align them to the client

Different clients have different values and organisational focus. This applies to the government sector as well as bids and SSQs for the private sector. For example, when you are writing a bid to the NHS, you often need to take a different approach than when writing a bid to Crown Commercial Services (CCS).

Prior to starting the bid writing process, you should research the organisation you are bidding to, and note and understand their values. This also applies to the project and any key local development requirements. When developing your win themes, you need to take into account the client’s values, as well as the specific needs and issues which the project is addressing and any key concerns of the project (such as safety or speed of project delivery).

4. Tailor and personalise your bid

Your agility and the size of your organisation is also important. Small local Councils or organisations often like dealing with other small to medium businesses. They find it easier to communicate and prefer a more dynamic service.

The first step in order to show you are the right fit is to understand your client and then look at your own business compared to your competitors. Identify the attributes that that client would be looking for and then highlight what aspects of your own organisation are similar to these and articulate these in your bid.

5. Answer each question in comprehensive, well-structured way.

Sometimes questions in RFTs and DPSs have multiple parts built into one single question. It is important that you answer each part of the question separately and clearly structure your response with sub-headings. This will ensure you score well in the question and don’t lose marks unnecessarily.

In addition, also need to ensure you structure your response with bullet points, lists and sub-headings where possible. This makes your response easier to read and more importantly easier to mark.

Client Testimonial

We had a must win bid come up for one of our key contracts. We searched for a bid writing consultancy and freelance bid writing support in Derby and the team at Tsaks Consulting UK came up. After an initial conversation, and a quote, we decided to proceed.

We are very happy with the outcome. They are focused on winning and quickly got across the requirements of the tender. We had a bid kick off meeting and we were all organised with what we needed to do by when. Where we provided content, they worked through it and re-wrote it and it was much much better than what we had written.

The Tsaks team really focus on winning and scoring well for each question. They also made the bidding process (which is usually quite messy and chaotic for us) seamless and we felt like we were on top of the process the entire time. Overall, we were very satisfied with the service provided and would recommend the Tsaks Consulting UK team to any businesses in Derby or across the UK who needs help with winning bids and frameworks.

Mary F | Asset and Building Maintenance | Derby

We are a medical and allied health services provider in Derbyshire. For the past few years up until the start of 2025 we have always written our own tenders and bids for NHS frameworks and other contracts with some success. We have had a decent win rate however, we did have some feedback that we were missing out on contracts mainly due to the quality of our tenders rather than our services or expertise. We heard about Tsaks Consulting UK and that they had a good success rate helping businesses in Derby so we contacted them. The initial conversation was very interesting and almost exciting.

They certainly know their stuff when it comes to tenders and bids. They took an active interest in our business and asked questions that showed they actually cared about us winning and what we could do to win. Fast-forward five or so months, and our bids are obviously much much better with Tsaks Consulting leading the writing process and we have substantially increased our success rate.

If you need help with a framework or DPS call the team at Tsaks Consulting UK. They are excellent.

Tony P | Medical Practice | Derbyshire

How can we help with your next bid?

If you are a small business in Derby bidding for a local Government contract, or a large organisation looking to secure a federal government contract, or anything in between, we’re here to help. We’ll start of by reviewing the tender to make sure it’s worth you allocating the resources into bidding for in the first place. This is called the bid/no bid process.

Once this decision has been made, we’ll work closely with you to ascertain what information and documentation you have, and what to create. Regardless of the industry, we’re able to assist. We have helped businesses across the UK complete tenders in a range of industries such as recruitment, defence, construction, trades, engineering, services and many more.

With our 96% success rate, you can rely on our experience in writing winning bids across Derbyshire to guide you through the often complex bid and tender writing process.

Once we ascertain what information you have in place, Jason and the Tsaks Consulting team will get to work. Whether it’s a local Council tender in Derby, or a national contract, writing team will: