Focus on… our Opportunity Finder service

One of the biggest challenges faced by businesses the world over is finding good quality leads, filling the sales pipeline and concentrating efforts and limited resources in areas that they have a good chance of success in. Enter our Opportunity Finder service. We saw a gap in the market from our experience working within the construction and civils sector; and from the moment we set up Procter Street as a construction consultancy. A key aspect of the service is to deliver manageable numbers of completely relevant opportunities – ones that fit your organisation’s profile and are likely to be just what you’re looking for.

Advertised tenders are the most popular way to win work in our sector - so it means that competition can be fierce. We can cut through the big numbers and deliver just those that are relevant to you. This gives you a head start in terms of more time to assess, act and apply for those you choose to pursue.

This is how it works:

• We build your profile so we have the information needed to understand your business

• We find out what kind of projects, tenders, bids and opportunities you’re looking for

• If you have a geographic preference, we factor that in

• We list your skills, experience, preferred sectors and any other information that will inform our search

• Our team manually searches through almost 2000 portals on your behalf – there’s no need for you to trawl through them as we’re already there doing it with a practised eye

• We find a list of opportunities that tick your boxes

• You get a weekly report delivered to your inbox

• The weekly report gives you the complete status of the project – when it was announced, what the project value is, when it’s likely to start, its duration, any specifics such as dates to register your interest, tender submission deadlines and any options to find out more at online or in-person briefing events

• We can help you evaluate any opportunity you are considering

• We can also help with bid management and further collaboration 

Our 6-month review for 2025 revealed these fun facts:

• On average we have found 8 new, relevant leads per customer every week

• Our smallest customer has a £2m per year turnover

• Our largest customer has a £1bn per year turnover

• The largest number of bespoke opportunities found in one week was 30

A few things our customers have said so far this year…

‘Easy to read’

‘Saves us so much time’

‘We get honest, considered advice on whether to bid – along with an outline of the risks’

‘OF gives us visibility of new types of works and clients’

‘It gives us confidence to see who is winning projects we might be thinking of bidding for’

You can see how Opportunity Finder sits within the cycle of consultancy services we offer. It makes perfect sense, is inexpensive and there’s no commitment so it really is worth trialling to see what it yields. We’re engineers, not salespeople, but we are commercially focused so we’re dedicated to making this work for everyone!