Access (ex-public sector buyer) bid specialists

Create a perfect bid strategy for your company

Our public sector bid specialists support tech suppliers with their bid processes, and help them gain more valuable contracts.

We provide APMP-qualified professionals who understand the Government Buyer evaluation process.

Importantly, we think like Buyers and mirror their evaluation process, providing an impartial review process and feedback to help you submit high quality proposals. In fact, our clients increase their win rates to over 1 in 3 – above industry standards.

Our Bid Support packages come in three distinct tiers, these tiers are:

 

Bid Reviewer

We provide a ‘critical friend’ approach, that supports Suppliers with successfully responding to Further Competition via frameworks. This means; live reviews, retro reviews, or creating standard responses for the opportunities you’re bidding for – with actionable scoring and feedback for your drafts

With an overall goal of improving the quality of your responses with help from our team of independent reviewers, as well as giving you a buyer’s perspective review of your drafts before submitting.

 

Proposal Manager

Have a dedicated Proposal Manager throughout your bid process! This service provides a much more involved approach from our experts, going above and beyond red team reviews. Helping you content plan, template, and having additional feedback calls to improve your bid crafting process.

A way to reduce your potentially overwhelmed or unsure teams, we’ll project manage the process and help increase your capacity to write want Buyers want to see, with structured content planning. This means storyboarding calls to kick off your responses, templated guidance saving you time between drafts, and providing a compliance matrix when needed to ensure you meet requirements. Our Proposal Manager will work with you to build your confidence and understanding when responding to key bids.

 

Bid Manager

We’ll assign a Bid Manager to your company, who’ll end-to-end manage your bid process. This includes input into the capture phase (with customer and competitor research), qualifying your bids alongside you, and SME interviews.

Have full support across pre-bid, bid, and post-bid activities – ensuring the best chance to win business. We’ll reduce the time taken by your own teams and ease your capacity, building customer-centric and competitive proposals, fully managed by our team. Ultimately, perfecting your bid/no-bid decisions, making sure you’re not wasting time on bids and maximising your efforts on those you’re more likely to win.

How do we help?

Procurement and bid experts at hand

We approach the demands of public sector bidding and tender responses from the perspective of being ex-public sector buyers. This means helping you to hit the right notes in your responses.

  • Minimum 3-draft review process

    Our experts will review at least 3 drafts of your bids and responses.

  • Dedicated red team reviews of your bids

    A process that mirrors actual framework criteria and Buyer evaluation methods.

  • Reinforcing your bidding processes

    We’ll help you build internal capability and share our knowledge and experience with your teams – building your bidding prowess.

  • Support with all government tender processes

    From pre-qualification questionnaires (PPQs) all the way to Invitations to Tender (ITTs). As well as support with RFIs (request for information) and RFPs (request for proposals) too. We also tackle the Social Value aspect of your written or presented responses!

  • Guaranteed compliant responses

    At the end of our review process, you’ll be submitting compliant and high-scoring bids. As well as make sure your processes are in top shape for future bids.

Partner with us for success with your public sector bids

Supporting the end-to-end process

Our experts support you with the different aspects along the bidding journey. From helping you strategise, to qualifying opportunities, to reviewing successful or unsuccessful written responses.

Advice Cloud Bid Process

Increase your shortlisting success rate

Our partnered bid review services have helped our clients increase their success rates by at least 33%, helping them get shortlisted more and win more public sector business.

  • 71%

    of our clients are SMEs

    Advice Cloud pride ourselves on supporting SMEs go further with their bids. With £250m+ won by our clients on Digital Outcomes & Specialists alone, they're getting involved.

  • Jay Keshur, COO, Appvia

    “Without Advice Cloud’s support we would not have had the success we had. With their expert help for Stage 1 - and most importantly Stage 2 - we were able to win both opportunities!"