Edinburgh has a strong economy and commercial sector that gives rise to many opportunities for businesses to write bids and tenders and secure public and private sector contracts. Our team of bid and tender writers here at Tsaks Consulting have helped hundreds of businesses in Edinburgh and across Scotland:

• Win Government contracts
• Write tenders and bids
• Write bids to frameworks
• Respond to ITTs and SQQs in Edinburgh as well as RFPs and RFTs
• Secure contracts across different industries such as construction, maintenance, medical and health, education, IT & ICT and community services.

Edinburgh has a growing tech sector, strong tourism industry and a large government sector all of which contribute to the many tendering opportunities available. Our bid writing consultants in Edinburgh help local businesses write bids both nationally, across the UK and internationally. Tsaks Consulting bid writing support entails helping you:

• Find suitable contract and bidding opportunities in Edinburgh
• Understand and interpret the contract
• Decide whether or not it is worth bidding for the contract
• Develop your win themes and key selling points
• Read between the lines of the requirements
• Assess the strengths and benefits you can bring to the contract
• Write the tender or bid
• Create the supporting documentation (quality, safety, environmental, modern slavery etc) required
• Create graphics and infographics to ensure a professional presentation.

As one of the leading tender writing consultancies in Edinburgh, our tender and bid writing experts are well placed to help you win your next tender or bid. Bids and tenders are a great opportunity for businesses and organisations in Edinbrugh to secure new clients and retain existing contracts.

If you are looking for bids and tender writing services in Edinbrugh, our team of consultants are able to assist.

Strategies to win government tenders and bids in Edinburgh and Scotland

Our team has experience writing winning bids to the Scottish Government including:

• Scottish Government: The main body of the Scottish Government it issues contract opportunities across all different sectors from IT to Transport. There are a number of different departments and our expert Edinburgh based proposal writers know the inns and outs of the requirements and the language you need to use to win.
• Education Scotland: Responsible for education and learning we have written bids for a broad range of different service providers. These include building maintenance, equipment and product supply (think student chairs, desks and other equipment), and IT services.
• NHS Scotland: This department is responsible for health and social care in Scotland and our specialist NHS bids writing team provides support to clients looking to secure contracts with them.
• Justice Directorate
• Rural Economy Directorate:
• Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform Directorate

Scotland has a number of agencies such as Transport Scotland and Social Security Scotland as well as UK Government departments which have a presence in Scotland all of whom we have written bids and tenders to.

2025 – strategies used to win Scottish and Edinburgh government contracts

• Show insight into the challenges and activities of the government department you are bidding to. When working on a bid or tender, our bid writers will research the objectives and values of the specific government department you are bidding to. Any win themes in your bid and other key selling points must align with and address these challenges and specific. Your bid needs to be department centric and you need to tailor your bid to the address the weighting criteria and overall needs of the specific government department. At Tsaks Consulting, our tender and bid writing experts will include references to the documented plans issued by the specific department so that it spells out to the procurement team that you have done your homework and are putting forward a solution that meets the needs of the department and aligns with their values and overall objectives.

• Detail your expertise and experience: All the usual proposal writing techniques apply here. I.e. you need to showcase your experience and provide detailed yet concise case studies that cover all aspects of your previous experience and work. It’s not simply describing the services you provided, but rather talking about how you maintained quality and safety in your service provision, and delivered on key outcomes including reporting and communication requirements. The hard part is this – you need to tailor your experience to Government. The Scottish Government wants to know that you have experience working with government and this needs to be highlighted. If you do not have any Government experience, you need to talk about how your private sector experience has similar characteristics to government experience. For example, the reporting and communication requirements for some major private sector contracts are similar to government.
• Detail the benefits to the Department, the Scottish Government and the people of Scotland: This is important critical as your bids needs to spell out the benefits. You can’t write the proposal and think that the benefits of your service are implied and that the reader and procurement team will understand them. You need to list the benefits and clearly articulate them and also talk about any larger, overall benefits for the Scottish people by engaging your firm.
• Ensure your bid has a simple and easy to read structure: Procurement teams in Edinburgh in both private and public sector tenders have to read through multiple bids for any one contract. You should make your bid as easy as possible to read. Use simply English, avoid technical jargon and break the text up with heading, lists and bullet points. Ensure your structure aligns with the RFP or ITT structure and evaluation criteria.

Industries we service in Edinburgh and Scotland

Examples of some of the industries from which we have helped clients win contracts include:

Medical and life sciences:

Our team has assisted many businesses in Edinbrugh to bid for NHS and private sector medical contracts. We are familiar with the Edinburgh BioQuarter and have clients in the Quarter for whom we have helped write bids, proposals and funding applications (grants). Our experience extends to the pharmaceutical industry and are experienced in writing Research and Development funding applications. This includes responding to requests from local Universities, as well as Universities based national and international.

From an NHS perspective, we have helped medical and health care sector businesses in Edinburgh and across the wider region to bid for National Health Services tenders. Our NHS Tender Writing and Medical Bid Writing capability in Edinburgh extends to dentistry, orthodontics, social and domiciliary care and all other disciplines in the medical tender arena. We understand the NHS procurement processes and the important of focusing on patient outcomes as well as Scottish Healthcare procurement in general.

Clients that need help writing bids to the pharmaceutical industry or want to know how to win NHS tenders in Scotland enjoy the writing support our team provides as well as our knowledge of medical and NHS terminology.

Construction, trades, maintenance and building bid writing

Our team has a track record of helping local construction companies win contracts in Edinburgh and nationally. Our bid writing team have experience writing bids and tenders across all sub-sectors of the construction industry including in asset maintenance, building maintenance, commercial construction, asset upkeep contracts, facility management and tenders for Planned Preventative Maintenance. Clients often come to us for guidance on how to win more construction tenders in Edinburgh as well as for help writing bids for construction projects in Scotland. We help them win major contracts and improve their success rate in public procurement contracts by:

• Writing comprehensive building methodology statements that clearly explain the proposed program.
• Writing in context – i.e. leverage on our understanding of the site and the local area to ensure we incorporate local and site-specific challenges and solutions into the bid.
• Leveraging on our experience in writing tenders and proposals for construction frameworks to ensure you provide a comprehensive response to each question that scores well.
• Creating tailored graphics and infographics that provide easy to understand solutions to complex construction and building issues.

We have also helped tradespeople, including electricians, plumbers, joiners and carpenters and HVAC technicians to respond to PQQs, ITT and RFPs for the provision of installation and maintenance services both to the private and public sector.

Transport and Logistics

We have helped many companies from the transport and logistics sector to bid for public procurement tenders as well as private sector tenders in Edinburgh and more broadly Scotland. Our team has providing bid writing consultancy services to supply chain management companies, freight and haulage companies as well as refrigerated and other transportation entities. Our experience in this area also includes writing proposals for logistics companies that provide freight forwarding services, maritime logistics services and are freight.

For smaller businesses, we can help you develop the required transport management plans that may be required for a bid or tender but you may not have in place.

Professional Services Bid Writing (legal, accounting and recruitment)

Our founder, Jason Cooney, started his career as a bid writer at a mid-tier law firm with insurance, commercial and workplace law practices. Since that date, he has specialised in writing bids and tenders to the professional services sector. We have helped law firms, accountants, property valuers and recruiters write tenders and bids to the government sector for the provision of legal, recruitment and accounting services, as well as the private sector including to major multinational corporations.

We are skilled and experienced in producing professional and polished proposals that resonate. We also incorporate a graphics design capability into our bids and are privileged to have assisted a number of firms in Edinburgh to grow their revenue streams through bids and tenders.

IT, ICT, and Technology bid writing specialises in Edinburgh

We have strong experience in the IT and ICT sector with one of our writing consultants specialising in helping IT companies bid for contracts across the UK. We have helped local Edinburgh and Scotland-based businesses bid for tenders associated with Technology services, ICT, Cybersecurity, software development, cloud computing and data centre management.

We also have some knowledge of tenders and bids associated with AI services and automation and have helped a number of businesses in Edinburgh write bids in this market. Our team understand public sector procurement and have assisted our clients to respond to ITT, PQQs and RFPs from government departments across all different levels of government. We are familiar with IT Procurement Frameworks in Government and understand the terminology, social value components, and detailed solution based approach required to win government bids.

Bid writing services for all industries

The above, is just a sample of the many different industries we are able to service through our Edinburgh bid and proposal writing consultancy. We have worked on bids from Defence, to charity and not for profit, and everything in between and are passionate about helping our clients win more contracts.

We help clients across the Lothian region, including in South Edinburgh, East Edinburgh, North Edinburgh, Midlothian Edinburgh and West Edinburgh.

Our services

We help our Edinburgh based clients create winning bids and tenders by:

• Working with you on a bid/no bid analysis
• Assessing the market and establishing your win-themes
• Helping you draft new content where required
• Creating supporting documentation where required
• Working with SMEs to ensure you have engaging and comprehensive responses
• Developing infographics and a template to ensure a professional presentation

Frequently asked questions about our Scottish Bid Writing Service

I need tender writing help and am based in Edinburgh. Do you help small and medium business like us as we have never written a tender before.

Yes of course. Our bid writing service in Edinburgh extends to helping small and medium sized businesses write and hopefully win their first government contract. We can help you every step of the way and are patient and experienced enough to guide the bid process for you and write your response.

Can you help me use AI for tender writing?

Yes. AI can be useful for getting a first draft together. Our team will help understand the benefits of AI and guide you on what software platform suits your needs best.

Does Tsaks Consulting specialise in Bid Writing

Yes – That is all we do. We are bid and proposal writing specialists helping businesses win government tenders.

How much does it cost for tender writing support?

This depends on if you would like us to write the entire bid, or only provide a review service. Either way we provide a free quote so feel free to send through the ITT or Framework documents and we will review and provide you with a fee proposal.

We are able to assist you with both private and Government bids and tenders. Our lead consultant, Jason Cooney, leads our tender and bid writing service in Edinburgh. We can assist you in securing contracts with the government and private sector such as the City of Edinburghand the Scottish Government.