Writing bids is a skill

The Bid writing industry is consistently developing and receiving annual praise due to its significance within many businesses from a diverse range of sectors. Bid writing companies or consultancies are often used by organisations that either lack tender writing or bid capacity but need bid writing help to win tenders or successfully get onto key industry framework agreements.

This brief bid writing article explains those frequently used terms within the world of bid writing and bids consultancy. With this short piece, our aim is to help those searching for tender writing support or interested in developing a career in the bid writing and tender writing sector.

Bid writing support

When a business requires bid writing support, they often need one of the following bid writing services:

• Bid writers
   Bid writers create quality written content to support a proposal or a response to a formal tender. This is often a requirement for public sector tenders with a substantial written quality tender response. 
   
   Whether in-house, a bid writer Freelance, or tender writing service; bid writers will work with a business to understand their specific solution and how best to apply it to the requirements of a formal tender. This involves research, speaking to different stakeholders, interviewing subject mater experts (such as contract managers, human resources, IT, engineering, and Directors) and understanding complex tender requirements; an expert bid writer will have all these skills.
   
   Large organisations with higher volumes of tenders will often develop and internal bid team with big coordinators, bid writers, bid managers, and bid directors. This allows the bid writer to focus purely on creating persuasive content, providing their employer with quality tender writing services.
   
• Bid writing consultancy
   Consultancy for bid writing is usually linked to guiding and improving bid strategy, process, and challenging a draft bid. In comparison to developing content for live proposals, which is the role of a bid writer (detailed above), bid writing consultancy is typically managed by a more senior and experienced member of the bid team, such as a bid manager or bid director. These professionals have a much broader experience and knowledge of the sector and process. 
   
  Businesses who need bid writing help may often have writing capacity but need assistance improving their performance and bid success rates. As bid writing consultants, we provide bid reviews, critique, and challenge our clients’ approach by reviewing a draft response and giving feedback. This improves the quality of the tender response and likely chances of success, as well as practical bid writing training. However, it’s of the utmost importance that you only work with a trustworthy bid writing consultancy expert, so it’s essential that you check references and bid writing reviews.
   
• Bid writing training
   Our bid writing training courses aim to refine and develop critical bidding skills. These take place either as online bid writing courses or in-person at our bid writing workshops in which multiple businesses can learn from an experienced expert, improving their bid writing skills and receiving guidance as a group. Alternatively, many bid training courses can be delivered to an individual company . 
   
   We have a wide range of delegates attending these bidding workshops, such as bid writers looking to brush up on their skills, or those involved in writing bids, who want to understand how to improve their approach. We also have many delegates for our bid writer courses who are new to bidding and may have started a new role or set up a new business and want to quickly understand where to start, quick wins, and to see a practical example of bid writing.