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 are looking to improve your win rate, develop a winning career, find your perfect technology partner, recruit a top performing bid team or urgently need next day bid support, our Bid Marketplace has the connections, consultants, opportunities and solutions to get you into a winning position.
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 offer you over 60 years’ experience in this specialist profession – we understand your complex bid and proposal processes and the demands they put upon your business.
Match & Compare lets you conduct a focused search for technology solutions in minutes. You tell us your improvement goals and the technology advancements you want to explore. We align your parameters with our Bid Lifecycle to match your needs with the vendors best suited for your requirements.
If you urgently need to assemble a bid team or require the skills of a specialist bid writer or proposal manager, we have built 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.
Contact Us
We are based in Richmond, just 15 minutes from Central London.
If you’d like to book an appointment to discuss your career or specific bid team requirements, please call one of the team on +44 (0)20 8158 3952. Current vacancies can be found on our candidate’s page.
Head Office
Bid Solutions Limited,
Parkshot House,
5 Kew Road,
Richmond,
Surrey, TW9 2PR
Meet the Team
Martin Smith
Managing Director
Lisa Easthope
Operations Director
Ben Hannon
Recruitment Director
Expertise
Our expertise spans every aspect of capture, bid and proposal management, offering industry-leading solutions to elevate your win rates, streamline your processes and enhance your career.
Our Bid Recruitment team can provide you with access to a global talent pool at every skill level. Typical roles recruited include Bid and Proposal Managers / Directors, Bid and Proposal Writers, Capture Managers, Business Development Professionals, Work Winning Professionals, Pre-Construction Directors, Document Managers, Pitch Managers, Knowledgebase Managers, and Graphics Designers. With offices in the UK and Australia, we have successfully recruited candidates and consultants in over 50 industries worldwide.
Our Bid Consultant Directory guarantees quick access to top bid and proposal Consultants if you require immediate support. We ensure you can engage the right expert at exactly the right time.
Our innovative Match & Compare platform, aligned with the Bid Lifecycle, makes finding the perfect technology partner effortless. Share your objectives and you will receive a comparison report of vendors ready to meet your needs.
Our Bid Training provides more than 30 courses developed in partnership with the UK’s leading bid and proposal consultancies. We transform team skills and deliver improved outcomes, including doubled win rates and up to 50% reductions in proposal costs.
We also publish the award-winning Bidding Quarterly magazine to provide industry insights and Salary Surveys to help you attract and retain the best talent.
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
Bid Solutions is your gateway to more than 50,000 global bid and proposal professionals
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
Growth Ignition is Bid Solutions’ strategic partner for its ‘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.