Bid & Tender Writing Services
The UK’s largest network of work-winners
Bid Solutions operates the UK’s largest searchable directory of bid professionals, with more than 800 vetted bid writers, bid managers and consultants. Founded in 2002, we have an 84% win rate across more than 2,000 bids and have helped over 400 clients win more than £100 billion in contracts.
Most bid writing companies hand you one small in-house team. We give you access to an entire profession. Whatever your sector, deadline, or budget, we match you to a vetted specialist who has won work exactly like yours before — across tenders, proposals, frameworks and selection questionnaires — or we manage the whole bid for you, end to end. Based in London with consultants across the UK and worldwide, we’ve been the bid profession’s trusted resource for over 20 years, and we’re rated 4.8/5 “Exceptional” on Feefo.
Why choose Bid Solutions?
The proof is in the numbers, and the track record behind them:
- 84% win rate across more than 2,000 bids
- £100 billion+ in contracts won for our clients
- 400+ clients served, from SMEs to global enterprises
- Established in 2002 – over 20 years as the profession’s trusted resource
- Rated 4.8/5 “Exceptional” on Feefo across verified customer reviews
And the strength of the network itself, verified across our profiles:
- Median 17 years’ bid experience per consultant – 70% have 15 or more years
- More than 270 APMP-qualified professionals
- SC-cleared consultants ready for defence and sensitive work
- Deep benches in every major sector – 310+ each in construction, IT, defence, and healthcare, and 480+ in professional services
- A complete discipline mix: bid writers, proposal managers, business development directors, capture leads and bid designers
What makes Bid Solutions different
Your must-win tender deserves the right person, not just an available one – availability is not a skill. We are not limited by the size of our team.
- 800+ vetted consultants, fully searchable. Filter by industry, skills, experience, qualifications, security clearance, day rate and location to pinpoint exactly who your bid needs.
- Every sector, on demand. From defence and construction to healthcare, IT, rail and professional services, we cover 40+ sectors – because our network already lives and works in them.
- The right specialist, ready now. Need an SC-cleared writer, an APMP-certified bid manager, or a lead who’s handled multi-billion-pound frameworks? They’re on the bench.
- Trusted Bidder verified. Every consultant is vetted by our team, so you engage with confidence.
- Governance handled. Confidentiality, NDAs, IR35 compliance, timesheets and invoicing are all taken care of — so you stay focused on winning the deal.
Three ways to win with us
1. Tell us about your bid
2. Find a bid writer or bid consultant
Short of resource with a deadline bearing down? Search our directory of 800+ vetted bid writers, managers and consultants and engage exactly the skills you need – usually on a day rate, or on a fixed price or risk-reward basis for longer assignments. Instant access to the right expertise is often the difference between winning and losing.
3. Fully managed bid writing
Prefer us to take it off your hands? Our consultants capture your win themes, write and evidence every answer against the buyer’s scoring criteria, manage the process, and deliver a polished, compliant, on-time submission – a done-for-you bid backed by a 20-year track record.
Trusted by hundreds of leading organisations — including Amey, Capita, Bupa, Tata Consulting, Sage, VFS, Vodafone, Buro Happold, AMS, Adecco, G4S and Compass Group — across 40+ sectors
Who we help
New to tendering?
Found a contract worth winning but never submitted a formal bid? We remove the risk. We match you with a writer who knows your sector, explain the process in plain English, and give you the best possible shot at winning first time.
Have an in-house bid team?
When several deadlines collide, we’re your surge capacity – vetted writers and managers who need no training or hand-holding, available immediately for a single answer, a full submission or an entire pipeline. We also run independent Red Team reviews, catching what an internal team is too close to see.
Bidding for major or complex contracts?
For high-value frameworks and strategically critical tenders, we field senior, security-cleared bid leaders who’ve won at the very top of the market – including consultants who’ve directed bids worth billions. We bring the firepower most organisations can’t keep on permanent staff.
How it works
- Tell us what you need. Your opportunity, sector, deadline and any requirements such as clearance.
- We match you. Search the directory yourself, or let our team recommend the right consultant – or managed team – for your bid.
- We handle the admin. Contracts, confidentiality, IR35, NDAs, timesheets and invoicing are all covered.
- You win the work. Your consultant captures win themes, writes to the criteria, and delivers a compliant, compelling, on-time submission.
The sectors we cover
Because our work is delivered by 800+ specialists rather than a single team, we cover 40+ sectors with genuine, hands-on depth, including:
- Construction, Infrastructure & Civil Engineering
- Defence & Aerospace (including SC-cleared consultants)
- IT, Software & Technology Services
- Facilities Management & Real Estate
- Energy, Utilities & Environmental
- Rail & Transport
- Professional, Financial & Legal Services
- Engineering
Bidding in a sector not listed? With 800+ consultants, we almost certainly cover it.
Construction & Civil Engineering
More than 300 of our vetted consultants have construction, infrastructure or civils experience — one of our deepest benches. They include bid directors who’ve led public-sector construction and property bids for over a decade, plus writers fluent in highways, infrastructure and major civils. They know construction tenders are won on evidence and lost on compliance, and handle both the technical detail and the PQQ/SQ discipline that keep you in the race.
Skills: framework applications · PQQ/SQ · method statements · CDM & H&S evidence · social value · design & build · Red Team reviews
Defence & Aerospace
More than 310 of our vetted consultants have defence, aerospace or security experience — including over 35 who hold SC clearance, with around 100 holding some form of clearance or vetting. As a Cyber Essentials certified organisation, we handle sensitive, complex, multi-partner submissions properly. Our defence writers understand MOD procurement, the higher evidence standards, and how to manage classified and commercially sensitive material correctly.
Skills: SC-cleared writers · MOD/defence frameworks · prime & multi-partner bids · capture management · secure handling · Red Team reviews
IT, Software & Technology
More than 320 of our vetted consultants have IT, software and technology bid experience. Most providers send whoever’s free; we let you choose the specialist who’s already won in your market – SaaS, managed services, cloud, digital transformation or IT outsourcing. Crucially, they write for the evaluator, not the engineer: complex solutions turned into plain, benefits-led, easy-to-score answers, with the cyber and compliance evidence buyers now demand.
Skills: solution architecture narrative · technical authoring · SaaS & cloud · managed services RFPs · cyber/InfoSec · social value · Red Team reviews
Facilities Management
More than 200 of our vetted consultants have FM or real estate experience, across hard and soft services and integrated TFM. FM is won on operational credibility, not promises — so our writers evidence mobilisation, TUPE, SLAs/KPIs and social value in a way evaluators can actually score, flexing from a single quality answer to a full multi-site managed bid.
Skills: hard & soft FM · TFM · mobilisation & TUPE · SLAs/KPIs · social value · public-sector frameworks · Red Team reviews
Environmental
More than 190 of our vetted consultants have environmental and sustainability experience — and because these requirements now appear in almost every tender, that expertise earns its keep far beyond environmental contracts. Our specialists write Carbon Reduction Plans, net-zero commitments and social value responses that are quantified and contract-specific, not lifted from a template.
Skills: Carbon Reduction Plans · net zero & ESG · social value · waste/water/energy bids · EMS · Red Team review
Transport
More than 300 of our vetted consultants have transport bid experience, across rail, highways, logistics, aviation and passenger services. They pair real operational understanding with the discipline to evidence safety, reliability and social value against the criteria — including consultants who’ve worked operationally in rail, not just written about it.
Skills: rail & highways frameworks · logistics & supply chain · safety/reliability evidence · mobilisation · social value · carbon reduction · Red Team reviews
Professional Services
More than 480 of our vetted consultants have professional services experience — our single largest capability. When the product is expertise, every competitor looks identical on paper. Our writers and pursuit leaders articulate genuine differentiation and quantify it — because, as APMP insists, a value proposition must be quantified, and hope is never a strategy.
Skills: RFP/RFI responses · capture & win strategy · executive summaries · quantified value propositions · pitch support · grant funding · Red Team reviews
Engineering
More than 270 of our vetted consultants have engineering bid experience. Engineering bids pull content from multiple specialists, then ask you to make it clear and scoreable. The classic failure is a technically flawless answer written in the team’s dialect, not the client’s. Our writers coordinate your experts, structure the narrative around the scoring, and translate complexity into plain English.
Skills: technical authoring · multi-disciplinary coordination · engineering frameworks · design & methodology · plain-English translation · Red Team reviews
Bidding in a sector not listed? With 800+ consultants, we almost certainly cover it.
What makes a winning bid?
A winning bid does three things well – and most losing bids fail on at least one.
It answers the question that was actually asked.
Evaluators score against published criteria, not against how impressive you are in general. The most common reason good organisations lose is describing themselves instead of answering the question in front of them – offering cake when the client asked for an apple.
It proves every claim.
“We’re experienced and reliable” scores nothing. “We delivered this contract, to this standard, with this measurable result” scores highly. Winning bids quantify; they replace assertion with evidence.
It’s clear, structured and easy to mark.
An evaluator may read dozens of submissions. The bid that makes its strengths easy to find – and easy to score – wins. Plain English beats clever jargon every time.
Matching the right specialist to your bid is how we get all three right, under deadline pressure – and it’s why our win rate sits at 84%.
Public sector framework experience
Winning public sector work increasingly means getting onto – and winning call-offs from – the right framework. It’s a discipline of its own: framework applications are scored differently from open tenders, and a place on the wrong lot is wasted effort. With 800+ consultants and over 20 years of public sector bidding, we’ve been there.
Our consultants have written winning bids across the major UK frameworks – including Crown Commercial Service / GCA agreements (one of our consultants secured all 15 available lots on a CCS technology framework), G-Cloud, SCAPE, Network Rail and National Highways. We work fluently across the wider landscape too – ESPO, YPO, Bloom, Pagabo, Fusion21, NHS SBS, LPP and NOE CPC among them – and we’re fully up to speed on bidding under the Procurement Act 2023.
Whether you’re applying for a framework place or competing in a mini-competition once you’re on, we match you to a writer who already knows how that framework scores. See the sector pages for framework experience specific to your industry.
Vetted, compliant, low-risk
Bringing in external bid resource shouldn’t create new headaches. With Bid Solutions it doesn’t:
- Trusted Bidder verification – every consultant vetted before they reach you
- IR35 compliant engagement, managed by us
- Confidentiality and NDAs handled as standard
- Cyber Essentials certified, with SC-cleared consultants available for sensitive work
- APMP-qualified professionals throughout the network
How much does bid writing cost?
Consultants are typically engaged on a day rate – based on our own market data, Bid Writers average around £500-£800 per day and Bid Managers around £600-£900 per day (depending on experience / industry / location), or on a fixed project price or risk-reward basis for longer assignments. Because the return on a winning bid is the contract itself, the right support routinely pays for itself many times over on a single win. We’ll set out clear options after your free initial consultation.
Frequently asked questions
What is Bid Solutions?
Bid Solutions is a UK bid consultancy, recruitment specialist, training specialist, and the operator of the largest searchable directory of bid professionals, with over 800 vetted bid writers, managers and consultants. Founded in 2002, it has an 84% win rate across more than 2,000 bids.
How many bid writers does Bid Solutions have?
More than 800 vetted bid writers, managers and consultants, searchable by sector, skill, qualification, security clearance, day rate and location.
What is Bid Solutions' win rate?
An 84% win rate, measured across more than 2,000 bids since 2002.
Can I get a bid writer with security clearance?
Yes. The directory includes SC-cleared consultants, and Bid Solutions is Cyber Essentials certified — suitable for defence and other sensitive bids.
Do you write the whole bid, or just provide resource?
Both. Engage an individual consultant from the directory, or commission a full managed bid writing service delivered end to end.
Do you offer tender writing as well as bid writing?
Yes. “Bid writing” and “tender writing” describe the same work — responding to tenders, RFPs, frameworks and selection questionnaires. Our consultants do both, across the public and private sectors.
Do you have experience with Crown Commercial Service (CCS/GCA) frameworks?
Yes. Our consultants have written winning bids across Crown Commercial Service / GCA agreements as well as G-Cloud, SCAPE, Network Rail and National Highways frameworks, and we bid fluently under the Procurement Act 2023.
How much does a bid writer cost?
Based on our own market data, Bid Writers average around £500-£800 per day and Bid Managers around £600-£900 per day (depending on experience / industry / location), with fixed-price and risk-reward options for longer assignments.
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