We love helping businesses in Derby win new contracts. Our team are skilled in writing bids, tenders and proposals as well as responding to PQQs, RFPs and others. Jason and the team bring a wealth of experience writing bids and tenders to local and federal government as well as private enterprise.

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

• Construction and trades: We have helped local construction businesses, as well as tradespeople such as electricians, plumbers and carpenters, find and bid for local contracts in Derby such as Derby City Council as well as contracts at other levels of Government, quasi- government (such as the NHS) and the private sector. We have also assisted clients based outside Derby to bid for major infrastructure projects in Derby.
• NHS and medical: Our tender writers in Derby has experience helping clients win NHS and other medical and healthcare contracts including for allied health services. We understand the patient focused approach and theme required to be successful with healthcare contracts. Our team of writers also has experience in dental contracts and other sub-sectors.
• Education and community service: 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.
• Other industries: Our experience helping businesses not only in Derby, but across the UK extends to include defence, logistics, IT and ICT and many others.

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 helped businesses write bids and framework applications in Chesterfield and Swadlincote as well as in all eight districts:

• Amber Valley
• Bolsover
• Derbyshire Dales
• North East Derbyshire
• South Derbyshire
• Chesterfield
• Erewash
• High Peak.

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

Six bid writing strategies to help businesses in Derby and the wider Derbyshire region win contracts and frameworks

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. Focus on your local capabilities and contribution to the local economy. This is particularly helpful when bidding for contracts in Derby or if you are bidding for a contract in another city. You need to show that the downstream social, economic and environmental benefits for the contract will through through to the local community if you are selected. Talk about how you will spend locally, support local suppliers and transfer information to local workers. This is a key benefit to the procurement organisation you are bidding to and the local community.
2. Provide a detailed methodology that demonstrates insight into the requirements: When you are writing your bid and tender, it’s important that you not simply answer the questions, but demonstrate an understanding of the challenges you may encounter when delivering the contract. This can be reflected in your methodology, answers to safety, or answers to other questions. The readers and reviewers want to know that you have thought through the contract, what resources you will allocate to deliver it, and how you will deliver it. This enables you to set yourself apart from your competitors throughout the procurement process.
3. Write concisely and include evidence. 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.
4. Integrate win themes throughout your bid and research the proposed organisation to ensure your win themes align with the framework, project and client. Different clients have different values and organsational 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).
5. Personalise your bid and show that you are the right fit. 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.
6. 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.

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: