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Our integrity sets us apart; unlike other consultancies and bid writing companies, we don’t like to waste your time or money; we will be transparent and honest with you throughout the process. As part of our tender writing and bid management service, a full tender review will take place to ensure we only invest time and money bidding for contracts we can win.
When you choose K Low Consulting you will be provided with a clear timeline of the project which drives the entire process. We have a strong focus on a collaborative process with our clients and work as partners at every step, ensuring that an exceptional bid is submitted on time, every time.
The bid writing process is closely monitored at all stages to ensure that each question presents only correct information, compellingly written to score the highest points possible. We maintain an open dialogue with clients, ensuring that no critical detail is missed. We will proactively engage with the identified key contributors within your organisation, or other essential stakeholders, to gather the key information needed to create a winning bid.
Our tender writing and management process has been built on 1000s of cycles of learning. It comprises over 50 key discreet tasks, designed to ensure that you receive a bid solution bespoke to your organisation. This is configured across the following stages:
We will evaluate the compliance and eligibility, commercial feasibility and conduct a full competitor analysis of your tender. This exhaustive process considerably increases your win rate, optimises your bid resources and will evaluate if the contract growth is aligned to the strategic objective of your company.
Having an effective planning stage is the most important component of the process. During this phase your bid manager will collaboratively design a full Project Plan with you specific to the needs of your organisation and the task ahead. From there, we conduct thorough research, helping you understand the issues of the contract, making sure there is a coherent delivery model and designing a specific contract strategy that will ultimately ensure that you have the right tools to win more contracts.
We guarantee that we will write an engaging, compelling and effective bid, bespoke to your organisation, appropriate to the needs of the bid, required word-limits or specific requirements.
We support you throughout the submission process by discussing the process and its requirements. We ensure the sign-off process is bespoke to fully align to your internal quality assurance and governance protocols.
To ensure the very best quality, each tender response undergoes internal peer review. We have access to specialist expert advisers able to perform and additional panel review, where we feel this would be appropriate.
Once we handover the bid, our support continues; we will listen to and address any feedback or recommendations from your internal team. We work hand-in-hand with you to finalise and ensure a fully compliant upload and submission. As we submit hundreds of bids, we have excellent familiarity and understanding of the idiosyncrasies of all public sector tender portals. To mitigate any risk with submission, wherever possible, we highly recommend our support is always taken advantage of on the day of submission.
Post-submission can be stressful and demanding. At K Low Consulting, we strive to alleviate some of that pressure and lighten the load on your organisation. This support includes being on hand to provide quick responsive support for any subsequent clarifications or other Commissioner requests – noting that these often need resolving within less than 24-48 hours in order to remain part of the process.
Once we have won the contract, let us help you to deliver against your Mobilisation or Implementation Plan. It is important to get the contract up and running correctly, allocating resources, delivering KPIs and ensuring Business as usual is met. For the next stage of the process, please read about our Implementation and Contract Management Support (Phase 4 of the cycle/service offered.
In the unlikely event that we lose a bid we won’t walk away, leaving your organisation to pick up the pieces. We won’t give up without thorough analysis. We will provide review scoring, feedback, and give critical advice on the tender specification, evaluation, and highlight any grounds for appeal. Additionally, we can facilitate legal advice if required.
