Bid Writing Service

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Bid Writing Service

Aspire to achieve

Realisation of your bid and tender opportunities, due to our 80% success rate
The ability to work at pace and meet exceptionally tight bid deadlines
Complete flexibility around your bid activity with the option to select the service level you require for your unique business requirements
A robust bid library with content written by bid experts which can be re-used to save you time on future bids.

Our experienced team win bids

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Why Choose Us

Operational Excellence

Our quality-assured, transparent process is based on strategic project management practice that we know is efficient, effective and successful. Our excellence in the field means clients can rest assured that both their bids and business reputation are in safe hands.

Certified Experts

We hold APMP corporate and individual membership, the industry’s standards for best practice. Our expert team work to a quality-assured process and hold over 15 years’ experience successfully winning tenders for clients across the globe from various industries.

Personal Approach

Our dedicated in-house team take the time to fully understand your business opportunity. We write bids that best represent your organisation, celebrating your unique qualities and aligning them to the scope and evaluation criteria, optimising your potential for bid success.

Features of Bid Writing Service

As a centre of excellence for bid management support, enjoying an 80%+ success rate, our Bid Writing Service helps clients to win bids.

We understand what it takes to create a compelling case which resonates with awarding panels and secures business for you. Our customer-centric service is organised, project managed and controlled through a quality assured process that is fully transparent.

With over 15 years’ experience in securing business wins for clients across the globe, and membership to APMP, the industry’s standards for best practice, you can be confident in the quality of our work. We understand how to deconstruct a brief and get to the heart of the core competencies that awarding panels look for. Our team are specialists at writing compelling content which both positively informs and influences bidding evaluation panels, driving a high bid success rate for our clients.

Our dedicated in-house team take the time to fully understand your business opportunity. We will be honest and open in our communications and will work as an extension of your organisation to provide a platform for success.

Bid Writing

Our bid writing service covers the complete bid lifecycle process. We’ll work with you to understand the tender, plan out a needs analysis and begin the process of storyboarding and generating win themes before producing a first draft. We’ll review the bid with you and make amendments until both parties are satisfied to sign off. Our bid writing service also offers support with upload and submission and a full debrief.

Bid Preparation

Supporting a business to be ready to tender, we can provide Bid Template and Bid Preparation support, which entails creating ready content as a Bid Library base. Your unique Bid Library will be built to suit your distinct requirements, ensuring you have a comprehensive library of collateral that can be used for tender responses through your own teams.

Bid Review

If you’re in the position that you’ve completed a tender independently, but you require an expert viewpoint before submission, look to us.

Our Bid Review Service can take many forms including:

Review and Comment
Review and Improve
Strategy, Review and Improve

Bid Management

Our comprehensive bid management service works as a trusted extension of your current business. It’s a popular solution for those new to bid applications and organisations who don’t have an existing in-house team to dedicate the time and expertise to creating winning bid submissions.

Our holistic, personalised approach means that we take on responsibility for the entire process.

So, in addition to developing the strategy, key themes, storyboarding and bid documentation which provide the cornerstone to a successful submission, we also manage the core internal processes which are integral to the smooth running of the project. From data gathering to team co-ordination, stakeholder management to supervision and governance, we take care of every aspect using our vast project management experience.

Whilst we work efficiently and independently, we maintain regular communications throughout the project. Our open and honest dialogue, combined with access to our unique bid portal technology, means that whilst we manage the bid production and submission process, you’re always in control.

Outcomes

Dependent on the service you choose, you can expect:

The production of exceptional bid proposals which resonate with audiences and help you hit those top scores.
A unique bid library tailored to your company with prewritten responses to speed up your bid application process
Regular scanning of proposal opportunities that are right for your business
Comprehensive bid support from our experienced bid writers who know how to write strong bid submissions and have a proven track record of success.

Bid with Confidence

CASE STUDIES

Under Barker’s leadership we reached a final recommendation in what has been a highly complex selection process (both in terms of content and navigating the stakeholder aspects). This would not have been possible without the Barkers team; Barkers’ Delivery Director Mark Elkington has added significant value in his contribution through-out. Being able to put complete trust in such an experienced and dedicated pair of hands has helped us hugely, and been invaluable. Rachel has been incredibly engaged and capable on the commercial governance work and the whole team, Mark, Rachel and Nadeem, have worked tirelessly managing some highly complex and challenging issues.

FMCG Client

Head of Indirect Procurement

We have been working with Barkers for nearly 10 months and they have successfully delivered Coupa to four divisions of our organisation which is going through huge change and the centralisation of many functions. This has created many obstacles for the project team to overcome, but all Barkers team members have taken this in their stride and dealt with difficult scenarios professionally. Their pragmatic, flexible and personable approach has been extremely valuable to our delivery, something much larger consultancy firms would not be able to accommodate. We are close to completing the fifth and final deployment of Coupa to a division which has many more nuances within its billing processes, but due to time constraints put onto the project team from outside of the project teams’ control, Barkers have again adapted their delivery to match the needs of their customer whilst ensuring what they deliver is still up to the highest standards. It has been a pleasure and a breath of fresh air to deal with a smaller consultancy firm whose employees ensure they get to understand their customers needs and offer solutions without charging extra for the privilege of providing their knowledge and assistance.

Paul Thwaites

Senior Project Manager, Vanquis Banking Group

The Barkers appointment has been a tremendous success; the teams' technical ability, flexibility, guidance and pragmatism has been first class. It is a true example of client and partner collaboration.

Steven Schools

Head of Procurement and Supplier Management, Vanquis Banking Group

Barkers approach to our challenge delivery impressed me. Jersey Electricity faces a lot of different challenges, and therefore it is tough to find the right people – especially people that would fit our requirements. Being a small and strongly diversified business in a geographically isolated environment, we needed a versatile specialist to come in and advise on multiple different topics. Barkers delivered just that. The consultant working with us was not only strong in the primary field of expertise (Procurement) but could as firmly ask challenging questions to technical people. Working in this way allowed Barkers to expand the primary scope and Jersey Electricity to receive valuable support.

Mark Preece

Operations Director, Jersey Electricity

I have worked with Barkers in the past and so was aware of both their strong procurement and commercial excellence as well as their relevant market sector knowledge. Once the team were briefed on the outcomes we required and the timeframe to deliver, we worked together on the feasibility of our plan to build something achievable. This allowed us to manage internal expectations and build trust in the plan. With any procurement project there are changes and unforeseen challenges that can impact timelines and this project was no exception. Barkers supported us through the changes, challenged them where appropriate, and amended the work where changes were necessary. Barkers always put the project and the outcomes first showing a high degree of integrity. The outcome Barkers delivered was timely, robust and showed a clear benefit, I would not hesitate in using Barkers again.

David Anderson

Head of Commercial, OVO Energy

The Barkers Led Procurement transformation at Argent had an immediate positive impact. The Barkers team positively engaged with the business and helped deliver procurement improvements to the indirect categories of spend. These changes enabled a step changed for how procurement was viewed across the business.

Nicola Dean

CFO, Argent Energy

An inspiring partnership, recognising and developing creative solutions to local social issues in the most effective way. Barkers and Bolton Family are a compelling example of people coming together from right across the community, with passion, authenticity and trust.

Lisa Charles

Director Of Business Services, Bolton at Home

We engaged Barkers to help us conduct an end to end review of Procurement. This included a tailored approach to our business objectives and our Procurement capability with a full set of recommendations that we have implemented over the past 12 months. The end result has been a successful programme of change, that has delivered a solid set of foundations to take our business and the function forward. Our lead partner on the ground was fantastic, and really stepped up to the challenges we faced and became an integral enabler of change.

Karen Lounds

Business Services Director, Tata Chemicals

We selected Barkers primarily for the depth of their procurement experience but also because their ethical approach and commitment to the creation of social value differentiates them from other consultancies. The Barkers team worked alongside our staff to enhance the team and accelerate our delivery of budget impacting savings and the creation of localised social value.

David Levy

Head of Strategic Procurement, Seven Force Strategic Collaboration