Bid review.
Ensure your submissions are of the highest quality with an impactful bid review – we evaluate live or historic content against the specific scoring system for your bid.
Key benefits.
Expert bid reviewers, highly experienced in their field
In-depth reviews
covering every detail
Clear and actionable recommendations and solutions
A knowledge sharing approach to build skills for the future
A tried and tested review system
We give you highly-targeted information to enhance your responses, make them easier to read and score higher marks. We use a seven-stage review that is applicable to all sectors and all types of bid response. It has already helped our clients secure public sector contracts worth more than £5billion.
Detailed and constructive.
Our specialist reviewers are forensic in their approach and have a proven track record of enhancing content. Every review is delivered with comments in the margin for suggested amends, tracked changes for spelling, grammar and style suggestions, as well as a summary sheet of overall thoughts and suggestions.
Our recommendations will help you
- Demonstrate your capability and capacity to meet the specification
- Provide clear and relevant evidence and examples
- Explain the benefits and added value you bring and highlight your USPs
- Help you understand the benefit of making the changes
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. We win 85% of bids for our customers across all sectors and size of contract.
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 success have you had with bidding?
We have won 85% of bids across our entire customer base and been successful on 100% of framework applications where we managed the process and wrote the content.
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
“The workshop training the Advisory team have provided has improved Glendale’s understanding and expertise required to put together a winning submission.”
Glendale Managed Services Ltd
“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 Bid Management team has been invaluable to us a team and a business.”
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