Bid review.
Maximise your chances of success with high-quality bid submissions. We evaluate your live or historic bid content against industry standard scoring, giving you clear insights to strengthen the quality of your bids.
Key benefits.
Reviews delivered by
highly experienced
bid specialists
In-depth, line-by-line
evaluation covering
every detail
Clear and actionable recommendations you can implement immediately
A knowledge-sharing approach that strengthens your internal bid capability
A tried and tested review system
Our seven-stage review system is designed to work across all sectors and bid types. It provides precise, practical feedback to help you sharpen your messaging, structure your responses for maximum impact, and increase your evaluation scores. This approach has already supported clients in securing over £5 billion in public sector contracts.
Detailed, constructive and practical.
We take a forensic approach to every review. You’ll receive:
- In-document comments with suggestions to strengthen your responses
- Tracked changes for grammar, spelling, tone and clarity improvements
- A summary report outlining key observations, strengths and areas for improvement
Our recommendations help you:
- Clearly demonstrate your capability and capacity to meet the specification
- Provide relevant, high-quality evidence and case studies
- Communicate added value, benefits and your unique selling points (USPs)
- Understand the reasoning behind suggested changes, building long-term bid writing skills within your team
Packages & pricing.
We can also offer bespoke packages to meet your needs.
1 day Bid Review
1 day
Improve your chance of winning public sector bids by increasing the scores your responses receive. This is a critical review of historic or live bids evaluated against the specific scoring system conducted across 1-day. Suitable for bids up to 10,000 words.
2 day Bid Review
2 day
Improve your chance of winning public sector bids by increasing the scores your responses receive. This is a critical review of historic or live bids evaluated against the specific scoring system conducted across 2-days. Suitable for bids up to 20,000 words.
Significant returns on investment.
When one of our long-term review customers strengthened their responses by implementing recommendations from a two-day review, they went on to win a £59.7m contract. With that kind of return, this service is a valuable resource for any business, large or small.
Frequently asked questions.
What notice do you need to review a bid?
As much as possible but we can schedule a review up to 48 hours before the submission deadline.
What experience does your advisory team have of wining public sector contracts?
Our team of senior consultants have many years combined experience. Our team have all held senior roles within a range of different organisations ensuring we offer a broad spectrum of support to our customers.
What industries does your advisory team have experience within?
Our team of consultants have in-depth experience across a range of sectors from healthcare, IT, construction to recruitment. Our approach is based on working in partnership with our customers. We can work across all industries because we combine our bid expertise with your subject matter expertise and this produces high quality, often winning bids. Get in touch if you would like to know more about our experience or click here to see the bios of our Advisory team.
What makes your advisory team different to other consultancies?
Our team have all held senior operational roles as well as having bid experience. This means that our consultants understand how things work in the real world and bring a level of commercial acumen that you will not find in combination with a software offering. Our strength is in combining software and advisory skills to ensure that you find and win the opportunities you are targeting.
Hear what our customers say.
“Contracts Advance are a capable and intelligent team who we highly rate. The Advisory team met and exceeded deadlines, were thorough in appraising our tender and offering recommendations to improve answers…we have already seen the benefit in our submissions through improved quality scores.”
TECS Group PLC
“We felt really valued and supported and it was clear that it was more than just about the money, they wanted us to be successful and they provided clear solutions to help… The higher level of support from their team has been invaluable to us.”
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