You and Us
Win more bids with our award-winning recruitment, consulting, software and training services. Bid Solutions is your one-stop shop for winning.
If you need to recruit a top performing bid team, search for immediately available Bid Consultants, compare and shortlist the best bid software, improve your win rate or develop your career, the Bid Marketplace is your one-stop shop for success.
As the pioneers of Bid Recruitment, we provide you with superior access to the broadest spectrum of skills and talent in the market. Our APMP Certified team offers you over 60 years’ experience in this specialist profession. We understand your complex bid and proposal processes and the demands they put on your business.
The Bid Software comparison platform is your gateway to hundreds of software and technology solutions designed for bids, proposals, and work-winning. Research, compare, browse and shortlist the best bid software for your business.
Our pioneering Match & Compare reports deliver comprehensive vendor intelligence matched to your bespoke functional, technical and bid team requirements in seconds.
If you need to urgently assemble a bid team or require specialist expertise at short notice, our Bid Consultant Directory provides the largest online directory of independent bid and proposal consultants. With over 800 professionals to choose from, we are your go-to partner for all time-critical bid and proposal requirements.
Our world-class Bid Consulting, Benchmarking and Bid Training Services will deliver tangible improvements to your bid process, proposal quality and win rate. We put your bid team at the centre of our bespoke training courses, ensuring participants can easily incorporate best practice into their bid responses.
To ensure you keep one step ahead of the competition, we publish the critically acclaimed Bidding Quarterly magazine which delivers impartial advice, shared experiences, market trends and best practice. To arm you with the right information to attract and retain top talent, we regularly publish the largest UK Salary Surveys for the bid profession.
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We are the recruitment consultancy of choice for the bid and proposal profession.
Meet the Team
Martin Smith
Managing Director
Lisa Easthope
Operations Director
Ben Hannon
Recruitment Director
Expertise
We are specialists in Bid Recruitment, proposal resourcing, and work-winning talent acquisition, with a proven track record of delivering exceptional candidates at every level. We source the expertise you need to win – Bid and Proposal Managers/Directors, Bid and Proposal Writers, Capture Managers Pitch Managers, Knowledgebase Leads, Graphics & DTP Experts, Business Development Professionals, and more.
Our Bid Training solutions deliver measurable impact across multiple sectors. Partnering with the UK’s leading bid and proposal consultancies, we have helped organisations double their win rates and achieve up to a 50% reduction in proposal costs – transforming the way they compete and win.
We understand the specialist skills, qualifications, and disciplines that drive success in each market and have extensive experience across more than 50 industries – including Professional Services, IT, Construction, Public Sector, Security, Telecoms, Oil & Gas, Healthcare, Engineering, Education, Travel, Logistics, Financial Services, Banking, Defence, and Manufacturing.
Our reach is truly global, ensuring location is never a barrier to assembling a winning team. We’ve connected bid and proposal professionals with organisations across the UK and Europe, as well as North and South America, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Australia.
Our Values
Teamwork
Winning together
The best solutions come from working together. We build long-term, cooperative, winning relationships with our clients, candidates, associates and business partners.
Perseverance
Achieving long-term success
We firmly believe that success and winning come from hard work, tenacity and forward planning.
Excellence
Being the best we can be
We pride ourselves on being the best at what we do. The Bid Solutions team is APMP Certified and we continuously invest in specialist training and development. We go the extra mile to achieve excellence for ourselves and our customers.
Agility
Prepared to react
We are the best-connected bid and proposal recruitment consultancy in the world, enabling us to be the fastest to market when it comes to connecting talent with opportunity. No matter how demanding your bid deadline, we can help.
Ambition
Seizing the day
Our team are actively encouraged to use their initiative and seize opportunities. We always aim high and encourage self-belief. Ambition drives exceptional results.
Key Stats and Facts
Our network allows us to reach 98% of the global bid and proposal workforce and we have successfully recruited on five continents
Over 50,000 registered bid and proposal professionals and more than 800 independent consultants and associates
We recruit more permanent bid and proposal professionals than any other business
More than £100 billion in new business has been secured with our help
We provide next day contract support for all live bid requirements
Established in 2002 and headquartered in London
Our Partners
Bid Solutions has been proudly working with CSK Management for over 10 years. CSK Management has nearly 30 years of experience delivering bid and proposal training across all industries around the globe, helping organisations and professionals succeed in competitive sales environments. As the creator of BidMaster™, the most comprehensive bid and proposal training and certification programme, CSK Management equips participants with the knowledge, tools and techniques needed to develop winning proposals. BidMaster™ covers the full proposal process, from understanding customer needs and shaping compelling storylines to pricing strategies and persuasive presentations, providing both strategic insight and practical skills.
Growth Ignition is one of Bid Solutions’ strategic partners for our ‘Train to Win’ programme, as well as being a leading transformation, consulting, training and enabling tech firm in the work winning space. They’re on a mission to help their clients maximise sustainable growth and focus their spend by joining the dots from business planning and marketing, through to initiatives in account management, capture and bidding, all the way to generating insight from structured client feedback programmes. They are led by Jeremy Brim who brings 20 years of experience as a capture and bid management professional across both the public and private sectors.
FMA Agency is one of Bid Solutions' key partners for design and creative marketing. Every winning bid needs to stand out from the competition and their design team can help you do just that. They provide their clients with bespoke design support at value prices and work to deadlines on turnaround time. The team work across a wide range of sectors and pride themselves on their ability to constantly produce original design ideas. Whatever your creative needs are, FMA can help you Bid to Win.
Readman Writes, led by Lisa Readman, is Bid Solutions’ preferred partner for proofing and editing. Lisa will help you ensure the publications, websites, case studies and marketing documents which present your company to the world are correct and concise. Lisa’s uncompromising approach and attention to detail will improve the readability of your written collateral and clarify your business message. Proofing and editing services are highly valuable but often overlooked. Readman Writes will provide an affordable service focussed on ensuring every one of your written words counts.