Module 1: Building a Bid Strategy
This module guides you in developing a bid strategy that aligns with your business objectives. It emphasises the importance of understanding your organisation’s strengths and market positioning to identify opportunities that offer the best chances of success.
Module 2: Getting Bid Fit
Learn to critically assess which tenders to pursue by evaluating factors such as resource availability, competition, and alignment with your business goals. This module helps you make informed decisions, ensuring you invest time and effort into bids with the highest potential for success.
Module 3: Finding Suitable Tenders
Discover effective methods to identify tenders that match your business criteria. This includes utilising various platforms and networks to find opportunities that align with your capabilities, increasing your chances of winning contracts.
Module 4: Planning and Managing the Bid Process
Master the essentials of organising and overseeing the bid process. This module covers creating timelines, assigning responsibilities, and ensuring all aspects of the bid are completed efficiently and effectively.
Module 5: Content Planning for Effective Bids
Strong bids are built on compelling, well-structured content. Learn how to develop a content strategy that aligns with evaluation criteria, craft responses that stand out, and create a content library to streamline future bid submissions. This module helps you plan ahead and stay organised.
Module 6: Easy Methods for Writing Winning Content
Writing an engaging and persuasive bid response is an art. This module will teach you best practices for clear, concise, and compelling writing. Learn how to use storytelling, data-driven responses, and persuasive language to make your bid responses stand out and score highly.
Module 7: Using Bid Reviews to Maximise and Elevate Your Scores
Bid reviews are crucial to refining and improving submissions. In this module, you’ll learn about different types of bid reviews, including compliance checks and red team reviews. Understand how to self-evaluate, incorporate feedback, and ensure your bids are polished and ready for submission.
Module 8: Understanding Commercials, Submission, and Beyond
Pricing and commercial considerations can make or break a bid. This final module covers pricing strategies, cost modeling, and commercial compliance. You’ll also learn about submission best practices, how to handle post-tender clarifications, and managing contracts post-award.