We do everything to win

Bids & Tenders

Evaluators score against the published criteria, not your business in general. We put your evidence exactly where the marks sit.

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Compliance gets you read. Evidence gets you scored.

A non-compliant submission is discarded before anyone assesses its quality. We handle the mechanics that keep you in the process, and the written evidence that earns marks once you are.

Bid Writing
Bid Strategy
Pipeline Building
PQQ & ITT Support
Framework & DPS Applications

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Public procurement explained

Let’s keep things simple

Public tendering has a language of its own, and much of it changed on 24 February 2025 when the Procurement Act 2023 came into force.

PIN and PPN

A Prior Information Notice was an early signal that a buyer intended to tender. Under the Procurement Act it is replaced by the Planned Procurement Notice, published between 40 days and a year before the tender itself. Either way, it is your warning that work is coming.

PSQ

Procurement Specific Questionnaire. The replacement for the old Standard Selection Questionnaire. It covers much the same ground: who you are, your financial standing, and your declarations against the exclusion grounds.

SQ

Selection Questionnaire. The stage that decides whether you are eligible to bid at all, before anyone looks at quality. It asks for company details, exclusion declarations, financial standing and evidence of technical capability. Each legal entity in a bidding group may need its own.

RFQ

Request for Quotation. Used for lower value or more straightforward requirements, where the buyer already knows what it wants and is mainly comparing price. Shorter than a full tender, but still scored and still worth getting right.

ITT

Invitation to Tender. The main event: the documents setting out the requirement, the questions, the weightings and the deadline. Under the Procurement Act, the notice that opens a competition is now called a Tender Notice rather than a Contract Notice.

Framework

A framework is an agreement with a fixed set of suppliers for a set term. Getting appointed does not guarantee work: individual contracts are then awarded through call off competitions between the appointed suppliers. The Act also introduces open frameworks, which reopen to new entrants during their life.

DPS and Dynamic Markets

A Dynamic Purchasing System was an open list of approved suppliers you could join at any point, unlike a framework. It was limited to commonly used, off the shelf purchases. The Procurement Act replaces it with the Dynamic Market, which works the same way but can cover any goods, services or works, including complex or bespoke requirements.

Central Digital Platform

The single government platform where notices are now published and where suppliers register their core information once, rather than repeating it on every bid. If you are not registered, you cannot bid.

How we work

Our four stages to success

You keep delivering the work. We handle the submission, and come to you only for the evidence nobody else can provide.

Qualify

We read the documents in full and tell you whether the opportunity is worth your time.
Plan

Every question mapped to its criteria, weighting and word count, scheduled against the deadline.
Write

We draft the responses and come to your team for the specifics that turn claims into evidence.
Submit

Compliance checked, uploaded and confirmed ahead of the deadline rather than against it.

Trades we have supported

We know how your work gets scored

Every trade is evaluated differently. Knowing what a housing provider looks for in a damp and mould response, and how that differs from roofing or groundworks, is the difference between a compliant bid and a winning one.