Our bid review service – helping you win more

Our team of bid and tender writers here at Tsaks Consulting provide a bid review service that looks at your first and second drafts of tenders and provides detailed and constructive feedback about how you can boost your prospects of success. We combine aspects of a bid review editing and proofreading for your convenience and will re-work your bid to help you win.

As bid and tender writing consultants, we have a strong understand of what industry best-practice and what you need to do to win. We will provide you insight into what the industry and competitors are doing, as well as what you can do to bring your bids and tenders to the next level and win more business.

Some of the most common areas we concentrate on are:

• Grammar and spelling.
• Appropriate use of graphics correct formatting.
• Reduction in use of colloquial language.
• Bid time management.
• Incorrect response structure
• Identification and communication of key win themes.
• Differentiating client from key competitors.
• Ensuring all questions are addressed.

We reiterate on the basics of proper bidding and reinforce all of our expertise and experience for each one of your client’s responses.

Professional bid review services for SMEs across the UK for competitive and non-competitive tenders

Our team of bid writers here at Tsaks Consulting provide a bid review service for small and medium sized businesses across the UK. Whether you are a small business in Leads, London, Glasgow or across regional UK, you can benefit from our bid review service. Our team will:

Work with you at the start of the bidding or framework application process.

We can ‘fit out’ your bid by reviewing the questions and writing notes or sub-headings on what we recommend you should write about and how to respond to each question. This is beneficial as it sets you on the right track for your bid and can take out some of the uncertainty you may be facing especially if it’s your first time applying for a framework or government contract.

Review your first draft. Provide an expert bid evaluation and critique.

For many SMEs, you will be writing your first bid or framework application and would like an expert bid evaluation and critique. This is certainly a good time to do it as we can guide you on what needs improvement, what additional information you need to provide and how to improve your answer. We will review the document and come back to you with detailed feedback which you can act on. This includes examples of what to write so you can actually use what we have written (i.e. we write it for you) and suggestions on how you can expand and enhance your response.

Review your second and final draft. Ensure bid compliance and undertake bid document formatting and presentation review.

Here is where we can help you finesse your bid. By this time, the bid will more than likely be structural correct and compliance. We will review to ensure compliance if necessary. We will also conduct a thorough proof read and check of all your responses to enhance them and refine the writing so it is simple, clear and concise. For many small and medium businesses, this is a critical and important point of assistance as they know their industries very well and just need to finesse their bid.

Bid review for public sector tenders and frameworks such as NHS and CCS Tenders

As experts in public sector tenders and bids, we are well placed to provide a bid review service to our clients. Our bid writers have worked on public sector tenders, including frameworks, for all types of organisations and across nearly all industries. We know how to write quality responses to social value, how to write in a style that public sector procurement personnel like to read, and how to write well structured and concise content that reads and most importantly scores well.

We are able to review your bid to any public sector organisation across the UK and provide feedback on what you need to do to improve it. Through our service we can:

• Check specific questions only if you are ensure of how to respond to certain questions. This is helpful particularly if you have an in-house team and you would like support on certain questions whilst completing the rest of the bid yourself.
• Review the entire response including check for compliance. Our team can check the tender documentation and ensure you comply. This is helpful when you need to ensure you will not lose the bid based on a technicality.

Emergency and urgent bid review and bid writing service

On occasion, our clients need emergency review and even writing support. We are able to provide this service – subject to your availability. However, in general, we always try to fit our clients in. For example, you may have not known about a bid (staff on annual leave) and have only three or four days to respond to it.

Our team can work on a review overnight to keep you progressing. Our Director, Jason Cooney, is well known for doing all-nighters reviewing bids and tenders. With three kids sometimes it’s the best time to work! Our team can review your bid and even write responses to keep your bid progressing. This is a handy service for businesses across the UK looking for an urgent bid review and writing service with a fast turnaround.

Bid review for international tenders

We are part of the Tsaks Consulting Group. The Tsaks group is a global bid and tender writing consultancy with operations in Europe, Australia and New Zealand. Our team is able to review bids and tenders to world organisations (such as the WTO, World Bank) as well as the EU and many foreign governments. Our bid review service is conducted by our London based team as well as our bid writers which are located in other jurisdictions. We will work with local partners (lawyers and other consultants) where required if we do not have the compliance expertise to ensure your bid is compliant as part of the review.

Bespoke bid review for service framework agreements and competitive and non-competitive tenders

Our team members provide a specialised review service for framework agreements and applications. We have experience writing bids to nearly all the procurement organisations such as CCS and Yorhub. Further information on our experience in framework bid writing is available here. Through our review service, we will transfer the information and strategic insights we have applying for different frameworks to different organisations to your bid application.

Our team will help you understand what works and what doesn’t and what you need to focus on in order to be successful. We will review your framework application and provide comprehensive feedback on what to improve and how.

Bid evaluation, document review, strategy review and submission checklist / compliance review

Our bid review team is able to review your proposal from a high-level perspective. This includes evaluating your bid and overall messaging and win themes as well as ensuring compliance with the requirements.

Our general process for reviewing bids, tenders and RFP and ITT responses for our clients include:

• Reviewing the contracting authority requirements and any mandatory requirements. We will then cross check these against your bid to ensure that you have met the criteria.
• Reviewing the written responses for each lot and each set of questions. Most importantly, we will ensure you have comprehensively responded to each question and integrated your win themes and key sales messages throughout the bid.
• Structure content. Well-structured content is a lot easier to read and mark for the procurement team. You need to use paragraph headings and bullet points where possible and ensure your bid is well structure and easy to understand and read.

All of our reviews are undertaken by our founder and Director, Jason Cooney, unless one of our writers has specific expertise in a field. This is to ensure that all our clients benefit from our collective experience.

Engage our team to help you review and write your next bid or tender and increase your success rate

Regardless of if you want to know why you are losing bids and tenders, or simply want to improve your bid and have an external person review and provide feedback, our team of bid writers are ready to assist through our bid review service.

We service all parts of the UK and provide a bid review service for businesses in London, Birmingham, Glasgow, Liverpool, Bristol, Manchester, Sheffield, Leeds, Edinburgh, Leicester, Coventry, Bradford, Cardiff, Belfast, Nottingham, Hull, Newcastle, Stoke, Southampton, Derby and across regional UK.