BidBuddy Tender Writers
We Write Winning Tender Responses, Proposals, and Business Documents.
We are frequently told “our tender was the best the Buyer had ever seen”.
We can:
- write your tenders for you;
- show you where you can improve; or
- teach you how to write and submit compelling bids on your own.
Tender: “A formal written offer to contract goods or services at a specified cost or rate; a bid.“
We don’t just produce
great looking documents.
We help our clients win!
We are quite different from most tender writing companies. For starters we are not just marketing gurus, technical boffins or copy writers. We are all that and more.
We didn’t start with the advent of ChatGPT, thinking now we could write tenders. We started in procurement, so we know how buying decisions are made on the “other side” . We still work in procurement, from time to time, to keep our hand in.
We are also Master NLP Practitioners and experienced management consultants.

Two Ways To Improve Your Tender Results

Do It Yourself
- courses
- templates
- articles
- wiki answers
We Do It For You
- strategy and planning
- tender training, advice and coaching
- tender preparation and management
- polishing and content uplifting
How To Write Your
First Tender Response
don’t know how or where to even begin, then this
free course is for you

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
TENDER WRITING FAQ
Have a question? Here are answers to some of the most common questions we get asked by people who don’t know us
Have you ever written a tender for [XYZ] industry?
Short answer is “probably”. We have written successful tenders in a wide range of industries, including health, construction, resources, government, industrial services, hospitality, you name it. Our international experience extends across a number of countries.
The longer answer is “it doesn’t matter”. While some think it does, the evaluation criteria are common across all industries, and there is a structure and format to all responses. We get the technical details from you, and transcribe them into responses that sell you best. Whatever industry you are in.
How can you help us?
Our service offerings can be found here. We can coach you, do it for you, or clean your document up at the end. We provide end-to-end support, from initial strategy development to final submission and post-submission follow-up. We analyse the tender, help you figure out if you qualify, work out your value proposition, and coach you on how to complete the pricing if it is a little daunting for you.
Because we love it when our clients win, we go the extra mile to give you the best chance of doing so.
If you would like instead to have a discussion, call us, or book a free no strings attached consultation at a time convenient to you.
How do I engage a good tender consultant?
While you can’t ask for samples of their work, you can check out their website. If it is boring, lifeless and dull, chances are their tenders will be equally boring, lifeless and dull.
Don’t be fooled by “qualifications”. Good tender writing relies on a wealth of experience and talent, not just education and skills.
This is a business where you definitely get what you pay for. Don’t fall for the cheapest, as you can be assured they will not be able to spend the time necessary to do anything more than an adequate job.
You can check out our our actual feedback here.
What do you charge?
We don’t give a price out over the telephone, nor do we quote a job unseen.
If you are really interested, talk to us first, and send us a copy of the tender you are interested in bidding for.
If you would like a ball-park budget estimate, check out our calculator to work out how much to set aside and what is “too much” to spend on getting your tender written (i.e. the point at which your costs exceed your desired profit).
You will, if you get shop around, get a wide range of prices. You will get what you pay for. A simple tender will take us between 30 and 40 hours, and we work very fast. If you get a very cheap quote then it’s from someone who isn’t well-qualified, or they aren’t putting the time into making your tender the best in the pile.
Or, (and this is the most likely) both, because they don’t understand what good should look like.
Help, I've run out of time. Can you help me?
So the short answer is “yes, probably”, because we work together as a team, and specialise in short turnaround times.
Contact us to see what we can do for you.
It's a lot of money for something I may not win
You aren’t paying us to concoct a story that will persuade the buyer. You are paying us to represent your story in its best possible light.
Check our our bid/no bid calculator to assess your chances. Don’t use “hope marketing”. If you don’t have the story, don’t bid.
And do talk to us about flexible arrangements.
Do you find tenders for us?
Why can't we just use ChatGPT to prepare our response? I've heard it's very good for writing?
We have tested ChatGPT and other large language models.
Don’t get me wrong: ChatGPT is good to get yourself started when you have absolutely no idea what to write. It gives you a great structure, that it took from somewhere else.
But to suggest that it can write laser focused on-point persuasive content specifically about you is a dangerous assumption. It reads really well to people who don’t understand how tenders are evaluated, and what content is required to actually produce a winning bid, so it’s easy to think that ChatGPT will give you everything you need.
It doesn’t.
What ChatGPT lacks, and will always lack, is discernment. It cannot create new, it can only repurpose already referenced material, which is at least a couple of years old. It tells you what to write, in a generic way, but doesn’t tell you how to write it. It cannot write persuasive copy. And it often misses the mark alltogether.
We don’t use ChatGPT. For three reasons:
(1) everybody else will, so their tender responses will all take on the same grey hue in a competitive setting;
(2) we find it slows us down. It’s faster to write the content from scratch than it is to tell ChatGPT about your business; and
(2) we don’t need to. We know what we are doing and ChatGPT doesn’t cut it. We know, because we have road tested it.
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