WORK WINNING: WIN BIDS & TENDERS WITH PROCTER STREET

Tender consultants (also known as bid consultants) support businesses with bid submissions for tenders to help win contracts and projects. Bid consultants and tender consultant agencies may offer a selection of services to help shape bid submissions. Depending on the scope and services agreed, this may vary from partial bid writing and bid reviews to ensure submitted bids meet requirements, to complete bid management where consultants help to find relevant tenders and manage the whole process to final submission in tender portals. Bid consultants typically support with: Tender writing: The process of writing copy, answering key questions in the tender Bid Management: Process of overseeing the whole bid proposal process, including managing timelines, deliverables, reviews, and submissions.’ Bid strategies: Processes that aim to identify value areas and differentiable factors of a business when submitting a proposal. These areas can then be leveraged in the submission to help businesses appear more favourable in the tenderer's decision process. Cost estimating and financial controls: These consultancy services help to assess costs and commercial aspects of the bid, ensuring that proposals are competitive, profitable, and achievable in line with cash flow and commercial models. At Procter Street, our Work Winning division has the expertise to help you win more tenders. Our team go beyond regular bid manager agency services, with collaborative and flexible approaches that are focused on results post-submission.

Tender consultants and bid consultants can help to increase the success rate of your bid submissions for tenders. If you have an internal team for creating bid proposals, consultants can help to provide proofreading and bid review support to ensure all areas are covered in the submission. Consultants can fill gaps in your expertise, for instance, in graphic design, financial planning and costing accuracy, and technical copywriting. Tender consultants can also help to expand your team size and support with business development, to ensure a strong pipeline of relevant tenders to target. Equally, if you lack internal resources or the team needed to manage all areas of tender finding and bid proposals, bid consultants can help to fill this gap, often proving more cost-effective and achievable than hiring a full team of bid writers and bid managers to begin with. Interested in learning more? Speak to our experts today!

When choosing to work with tender consultants or a bid consultancy agency, we also recommend defining your goals and how you want consultants to support your business. For instance, do you struggle to find enough relevant tenders for your business? Do you lack the expertise and copywriting skills to create winning bids? Do you need additional eyes over your bids to ensure they’re ready to submit? Or are you just lacking the resources to target large, high-value bids? Answering these questions is the first step to take. Next, we recommend finding consultants who support in these areas and, crucially, consultants who are experts in your sector. For instance, at Procter Street, we specialise as multidisciplinary consultants, specifically for construction, infrastructure, civil engineering, public sector, utilities, and Government contracts. We offer complete end-to-end consultancy services from tender finding and work winning to project planning and resourcing solutions to help contractors find and complete work. So if you’re an SME, Tier-1, or Tier-2 contractor offering relevant services to these sectors, we can help to support you in all areas of your operations.

We support a wide range of clients, from SMEs to Tier-1 contractors, PLCs, developers, local authorities and public-sector bodies.

Absolutely. Our support is scalable, from small local tenders to large, complex, multi-million-pound bids. We offer both one-off bid support and longer-term tailored agreements depending on what you need.

Pricing is bespoke and based on the size, complexity and scope of the work. We’ll provide a clear proposal once we understand your requirements.

We regularly work to tight deadlines and have delivered full submissions within very short timeframes when required.

We usually request past case studies, CVs, technical data, organisational details, and the tender documents. If you’re missing some elements, we can help develop them.

We work across a wide range, including NEC, JCT, design-and-build, two-stage procurement, ECI and bespoke contract structures.

Yes, confidentiality is essential in tendering, and we’re happy to work under an NDA where required.

Yes. We can assist with debriefs, feedback analysis, bid improvement recommendations and strategy development for future opportunities.