Our bid consultancy services are based on twenty years’ successful experience of helping our customers to win high value, strategically important bids. They build a positive culture amongst customer sales and bid teams.
Carrley® Business bid consultancy services support you to work strategically to assess and prepare realistic and productive bid pipelines. They ensure effective business and opportunity capture in place to drive future contract wins.
Adopting the right focus at the right time is also key. Our own highly skilled bid consultants are available at every stage, if you need them.
We help you to build and maintain business growth, in the form of major bid and new client wins.
We do so extensively with customer senior teams, producing exceptionally high-quality bids. Our customers come from a wide range of industry sectors. These include (for example) civil engineering, defence, digital, emergency services, higher education, legal, and pharmaceuticals.
Carrley® Bid Consultants are members of the Association of Proposal Management Professionals. They are highly skilled and experienced in winning bids. They have strong commercial acumen and are also capable project managers – carrying PRINCE 2 accreditation.
Our Bid Consultants (who are also expert bid writers) will help you to configure and manage your bid team efficiently. This is particularly where change is needed, or new high-level skills required.
Our Consultants will also help you to adopt thorough, well-thought-out processes to storyboard, wireframe and prepare content. They will help you think differently and tactically to develop and embed win themes. This ensures that winning themes are at the heart of your proposal, they stand out from competitors and your bid has the strongest chance of success.
Bid readiness consultancy. Our market leading Fit2Bid?® diagnostic identifies both core strengths and gaps in effectiveness.
Bid opportunity planning, business capture and bid pipeline management. We advise on systems, people, technology and processes required to win major contracts.
Bid programme management – outsourced, professional production of your bid against clear milestones and deliverables and management of all bid stakeholders. We provide expert bid writing resources where required.
Competitor analysis – knowing who your competitors are, whether they will be bidding, and how they are likely to position themselves is key. Our Bid Consultants will advise you on how to handle this and what your win strategy should look like.
Modelling of new services and delivery methodologies. This includes build of new delivery partnerships, stakeholder negotiations, adjustments to organisational structure and systems, and supply chain testing.
Bid Improvement consultancy. Our Bid Consultants provide professional best practise analysis of past bids, through which dedicated bid improvement plans are produced. Our action plans result in substantial and sustainable improvements in bid win rates.
Bid Red Team Reviews– pre bid submission, independent analysis of your bid, and feedback to improve bid win rates. Red Team Reviews are either verbal or written – to fit in with your budget and what works best for your bid team.
Bid Library optimisation. Analysis of boilerplate content, and advice covering optimisation strategy and implementation of AI and proposal management systems.
Pricing strategy. We regularly work with customers on their pricing to win strategies. We also work with customers on integrating pricing strategy into the bid opportunity planning process.
For an insight into the effectiveness of our bid consultancy services, take a look at our Testimonials Page. Please do not hesitate to call if you require any further information on 0845 5339419 or via our Contact Us facility.
