Tenders, bids and proposals
You can grow your business by winning tenders, bids and proposals but, to succeed, you probably need a professional bid writer.
We can provide a bid writer or manager to prepare your bid or tender, whether you need to make your submission online or as a document. If there’s a shortlisting process and a second stage, we can also help you to create, refine and rehearse a compelling presentation.
You want to win as many bids as you can. You don’t want to spend your time and effort on a bid or tender that fails – and there are lots of simple ways to fail. It is recognised that professionally managed and written bids and tenders have a much higher success rate. An expert in your field of business isn’t necessarily the best person to craft a winning bid submission because bid writing and management requires specific skills .
Very few organisations have the luxury of an in-house bid writer to manage and write winning bids and tenders. Hard pressed technical specialists and sales directors often find themselves ‘landed’ with writing bids or tenders when they could be more effectively occupied.
Your potential customer knows that they need the product or service that you offer, but when they scrutinise your bid very carefully – and they will – what will make them choose you? How will you avoid falling at the first hurdle with a simple mistake? How will you convince the buyer or procurement team that they should choose you? We can help.
We’ll get to know you, and make sure your bid does justice to you. We’ll work with you to manage the entire bid process, doing some of it for you and some of it with you. When your final bid is submitted, we will make sure that it is compliant, consistent and compelling.
We can help you:
- Build a bid pipeline
- Decide whether or not to bid
- Understand the bid document and the buyer
- Form a bid team
- Involve the right people
- Collect your information and materials
- Write the bid
- Present the bid memorably and well
- Review the bid before submission
- Proofread
- Make final preparations
- Submit the bid on time
- Get feedback from successful and unsuccessful bids
- Learn for the next bid
Once you’ve been shortlisted, how will your prospective client see you? Your literature and website may not be a direct part of your bid, but your prospective customer will almost certainly look at them. You may need to update them, or to put together some case studies to help illustrate your work, and it may be high time you won an award for your achievements. We can help with all of that too.
We believe that the bid writer should be viewed as part of the marketing team, but so often they aren’t. As a result, the well crafted key marketing messages that you have painstakingly developed don’t make it into your bid – and they should. We’ll make sure they do.
You can’t win them all – but with our help, you can win more of the ones for which you are the best candidate.
Call us now on 01376 340955 or email theteam@worthpr.co.uk.