Bid Advisory Services
Maximise your chance of winning and retaining public sector contracts with our expert bid advisory team.
Bid management & strategy
Strategy before structure! Give yourself the best possible chance of winning bids.
Take advantage of our proven bid management skills. We help you navigate the bidding process from start to finish, guiding your bid towards success.
Key benefits
Over 200 years of Combined Experience
With many years of combined experience, our team’s knowledge and understanding of public sector bidding is second to none. Drawn from a wide variety of industries, our specialists are matched to your business, ensuring you get the best possible support and advice.
Management that delivers
Our senior bid managers are responsible for the everyday management, ensuring your bid stays on track and scores the highest possible marks. Our tried and tested 7-stage bid process, ensures key milestones are met and enables a smooth transition from pre-bid to submission and beyond.
Develop a winning strategy
Our collaborative process means that you’ll work closely together with one of our senior bid managers to develop a clear bid strategy majoring on your strengths, highlighting your USPs, and helping you to mitigate any risks. The resulting bid will put you in the strongest position to win.
Bid writing
Our bid writing service ensures the highest quality submissions, putting you in the strongest position to win.
Highly-experienced bid writers matched to your industry:
A collaborative approach ensures all insights are captured
Flexible, tailored and responsive service
An efficient, tried and tested process
How it works.
You’ll work together with one of our experienced bid writers to produce a bid that is written to the highest possible standard and ensures that you maximise scoring. They’ll start by talking to your subject matter experts to capture their knowledge, before ensuring that each response highlights your win themes, demonstrates your USPs, and differentiates you from the competition.
The Five Bid Writing Essentials
Acknowledge the question – showing that you understand what is being asked of you will help you structure your response and provide focus. Front load your big selling points
Your organisations experience brings credibility. Leverage this
Use examples related to the specifications, giving the client comfort that your organisation is skilled and experienced
Evidence & data gives the client peace of mind & provides proof
Demonstrate the benefits of your offer & why your organisation is different from others
Draft, refine and refine again.
Our writer will work with you to produce three drafts, each with a formal review process. This will ensure that you have a well-polished bid that answers all the tender questions and portrays your organisation in the best light to score the highest possible marks.
Tender Scope Package
Bid Less, Win More
Are you missing a tender opportunity pipeline? Are you on frameworks, but getting no business from them? With our Tender Scope Package, we provide Strategic and Analytical support via a three-stage process called USP:
U – Understanding:
During this stage, one of our consultants will conduct a business deep-dive workshop with you to understand your tender goals
S – Strategy:
Based on the results of stage 1, one of our analysts will work with our trusted partner’s software to build a suitable tender pipeline based on geography, size, scale & tailored focus areas.
P – Proposal:
We will give you a clear action plan to enable you to focus on the right tenders for you & how to prepare for success.
Bid Preparation Pack
Fail to Prepare, Prepare to Fail
Perfect for businesses who need access to an expert bid advisory team and need help with a submission, but have a limited budget. The Healthfield Consulting team will work in partnership with you through the bid kick-off, strategy and response planning.Advice Line
Have access to unrivalled experience, knowledge and expertise to answer questions you have in relation to finding, qualifying and winning public sector contracts. Receive 18 hrs of advice per year from a senior consultant.
Bid War Gaming
Strategy is doing the right things. Not everything.
Running a military style war game for tender preparation can provide significant benefits for organizations competing for must-win contracts. This is a structured simulation where internal teams role-play as competitors, evaluators, and decision-makers to stress-test the tender strategy before submission. This is run by one of our team, who has spent many years in the British army, and uses military principles for the corporate world. Our war-game methodology improves the probability of success for key contracts.
Bid review
Ensure your submissions are of the highest quality with an impactful bid review – we evaluate live or historic content against the specific scoring system for your bid.
Expert bid reviewers, highly experienced in their field
In-depth reviews covering every detail
Clear and actionable recommendations and solutions
A knowledge sharing approach to build skills for the future
Key benefits
A tried and tested review system
We give you highly-targeted information to enhance your responses, make them easier to read and score higher marks. We use a seven-stage review that is applicable to all sectors and all types of bid response.
Detailed and constructive.
Our specialist reviewers are forensic in their approach and have a proven track record of enhancing content. Every review is delivered with comments in the margin for suggested amends, tracked changes for spelling, grammar and style suggestions, as well as a summary sheet of overall thoughts and suggestions.
Our recommendations will help you
Demonstrate your capability and capacity to meet the specification
Provide clear and relevant evidence and examples
Explain the benefits and added value you bring and highlight your USPs
Help you understand the benefit of making the changes
Bid training
Let us help build your bid expertise – our bid training develops the skills you need to maximise your chances of winning and retaining public sector opportunities.
Delivered by our experienced, senior consultants
A cost-effective way to develop best practice skills
Tailored to meet your specific needs, budget and skill level
Hands-on practical training that you can implement immediately
Key benefits
Customise your training
Boost your team’s knowledge and confidence with flexible, customised training. Choose all or any of the modules from our 7-Stage Bid Process, from pre-bid preparation to writing a high scoring response, to build a programme that suits your needs.
Share our knowledge
With many years of experience, our team’s knowledge of public sector bidding is unmatched in the market. Our bid training service is your chance to share our expertise and unrivalled experience in managing, writing and submitting public sector bids.
Hands-on learning
All modules are based on practical application, not just theoretical concepts, enabling your team to immediately develop their skills and put them into practice. Our training is delivered virtually by senior consultants experienced in bid writing, managing, pitching and winning. Small teaching groups of 10 or less ensure everyone gets the best possible experience.