Supporting your Tender Responses

Supporting Your Tender Responses: Helping you Win Tenders!

Tendering for business is big business. There has never been so many frameworks and formal tender opportunities for businesses to find and win! This coupled with the UK Governments push on engaging small and medium businesses in their supply chain provides an opportunity not to be missed! With opportunity there is also competition, so presenting a tender response which is both compliant and compelling is key! Since 2009 Thornton & Lowe has specialised in supporting SMEs win public sector contracts.

In this article we detail our tendering support services, specifically focused on developing quality tender responses, which includes Social Value tender responses.

What are Tender Support Services?

Tender support services are designed to help businesses prepare and submit successful tender bids for public sector contracts. Tendering support services can include:

• Bid strategy and planning: helping you identify the most suitable tender opportunities, understand the buyer's requirements and expectations, and develop a clear and effective bid strategy and plan.

• Bid writing and review: helping you write persuasive and professional tender responses, using evidence and examples to demonstrate your value proposition, and reviewing your bid documents to ensure they are compliant, consistent and error-free.

• Bid management and coordination: helping you manage and coordinate the bid process, ensuring you have the right resources, roles and responsibilities, and deadlines in place, and liaising with the buyer and other stakeholders as needed.

• Bid training and coaching: helping you improve your bid skills and confidence, through tailored training and coaching sessions, covering topics such as bid writing, bid presentation, bid evaluation and feedback, and bid improvement.

Why do you need Tendering Support Services?

Tendering support services can help you achieve the following benefits:

• Increase your win rate: by improving the quality and competitiveness of your tender responses, you can increase your chances of winning more public sector contracts.

• Save time and money: by outsourcing or supplementing your bid activities to a professional tendering support provider, you can save time and money, and focus on your core business operations.

• Reduce risk and stress: by ensuring your tender responses are compliant and complete, you can avoid the risk of disqualification or rejection, and reduce the stress and pressure of the bid process.

• Learn and grow: by receiving expert feedback and guidance, you can learn from your bid experience and improve your bid performance and capabilities over time.

How can Thornton & Lowe help you?

At Thornton & Lowe, we are passionate about helping SMEs win public sector contracts. We have a proven track record of delivering tendering support services across various sectors and industries, such as construction, health and social care, education, transport, and more. We have a team of experienced and qualified bid professionals, who can provide you with the following tendering support services:

• Bid Administration: helping businesses with portal management, tender searches and alerts, preparing more some PQQs and SQs.

• Bid Templates: we can provide you with a comprehensive and customised bid toolkit, which includes templates, guides, checklists, and best practices, to help you prepare and submit high-quality tender responses.

• Bid Writing: we can help you write compelling and compliant tender responses, using our proven bid writing methodology and techniques, and ensuring your responses are aligned with the buyer's criteria and scoring.

• Bid Review: we can review your tender responses and provide you with constructive feedback and recommendations, to help you improve and refine your bid documents, and increase your score and win rate.

• Bid Management: we can help you manage and coordinate the entire bid process, from bid strategy and planning, to bid submission and evaluation, ensuring you have a smooth and successful bid journey.

• Bid Training: we can provide you with bespoke and interactive bid training sessions, covering topics such as bid strategy, bid writing, bid presentation, bid evaluation and feedback, and bid improvement, to help you enhance your bid skills and confidence.

• Bid Recruitment: supply you with permanent or freelance bid writers and managers.

• Social Value: we can help you develop and demonstrate your social value proposition, which is becoming increasingly important and influential in public sector tendering, by helping you identify, measure, and communicate your social value impact and outcomes.

If you are interested in our tendering support services, or want to find out more about how we can help you win more public sector contracts, please contact us today. We would love to hear from you and discuss your tendering needs and goals.

Outsourced Consultancy Prices to Support your Tendering

The cos of helping you write and win tender responses

Many businesses want to bid for public and private sector contracts, but they don't have the time or skills to write good tender responses. We offer tender response support services via an adhoc and subscription model.

Our tender subscription services let us find and filter the tenders that match your industry and interests, and send you regular updates and alerts about them. You can then decide which ones you want to bid for. And depending what service you use, we can also then write the tender responses!

Our tender response support packages include:

• Search and Selection (S&S). For £390 per month, we find and select the best tender opportunities for you. We don't use software, we use real people who understand your business and what you want to bid for. This saves you time and money.

• Bid Mentor Service (BMS). For £650 per month, we give you monthly guidance sessions, bid strategy, a bid pipeline and time for bid writing and reviews. This helps you plan and manage your bids better.

• Bid Administration Service (BAS). For £1000 per month, we do all the admin work for you. We handle the tender alerts, the portals, the tender inbox, the documents, the forms, and the summaries. This makes your tender process easier and faster.

• Bid Success Programme (BSP). Starting from £1950 per month, we become your dedicated bid writing team. We write high-quality tender responses for you, using our experience and expertise. We have worked on thousands of successful bids, and we know what works.

Bid and Tender Response Process with Thornton & Lowe

Feedback from our Tender Support Services

We have hundreds of 5 star reviews for our tender support services! See our google reviews, review platform, testimonials and case studies.

"Excellent service and quality of work, we were on a very short timescale but every person involved delivered ahead of schedule. Fantastic communication and a genuine interest in our brand and tender success. Will use again and highly recommend."

"Fantastic service from start to finish. We had an expert team assigned to work with us and the knowledge was exceptional."

"Maria and Donna helped us with a tender application. Maria gave a lot of helpful comments on our draft and subsequently helped us refine all the application. We submitted the application a few months ago and we are now shortlisted for the interviews. Their help was super constructive."