BidBuddy
Tendering Services

We help you win more lucrative contracts that are let through the tendering process.

We can:

  1. write your tenders for you;
  2. show you where you can improve; or
  3. 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.
EXCELLENT rating
Based on 20 reviews
BidbBuddy stood out from the other companies that we approached. Others gave the impression of simply wanting your money. BidBuddy gave exceptional service for a very competitive fee. Highly recommend them.
Graham Turville-Ince
Graham Turville-Ince
2024-03-15
BidbBuddy stood out from the other companies that we approached. Others gave the impression of simply wanting your money. BidBuddy gave exceptional service for a very competitive fee. Highly recommend them.
Graham Turville-Ince
Graham Turville-Ince
2024-03-15
Have worked with Sue and her team several times over the past 7 years. Professional, communicates well and the work is always first rate. Couldn't recommend them higher.
Damian Barr
Damian Barr
2024-02-15
Have worked with Sue and her team several times over the past 7 years. Professional, communicates well and the work is always first rate. Couldn't recommend them higher.
Damian Barr
Damian Barr
2024-02-15
Sue and the team at Bidbuddy provide an elite service enhancing, documenting and preparing bids for submission. Super easy to work with, user friendly, efficient and collaborative. You wont regret calling them, I would highly recommend.
Michael Gladwell
Michael Gladwell
2023-10-19
Sue and the team at Bidbuddy provide an elite service enhancing, documenting and preparing bids for submission. Super easy to work with, user friendly, efficient and collaborative. You wont regret calling them, I would highly recommend.
Michael Gladwell
Michael Gladwell
2023-10-19
Sue and the team help us take our tender application to the next level. They went above our expectations and genuinely care about the quality of your application. Here at Spritely, we highly recommend Bidbuddy. Thanks Sue
Daniel Edwards
Daniel Edwards
2023-10-11
Sue and the team help us take our tender application to the next level. They went above our expectations and genuinely care about the quality of your application. Here at Spritely, we highly recommend Bidbuddy. Thanks Sue
Daniel Edwards
Daniel Edwards
2023-10-11
We've used Bidbuddy on numerous occasions with succesful outcomes each time. Bidbuddy takes our tendering and proposals to a level we can not achieve on our own. Would highly recommend
Mat Vaughan
Mat Vaughan
2023-06-01
We've used Bidbuddy on numerous occasions with succesful outcomes each time. Bidbuddy takes our tendering and proposals to a level we can not achieve on our own. Would highly recommend
Mat Vaughan
Mat Vaughan
2023-06-01
Amazing team of professionals who always deliver top quality service on time and with incredible added value
Steve Lennon
Steve Lennon
2023-04-02
Amazing team of professionals who always deliver top quality service on time and with incredible added value
Steve Lennon
Steve Lennon
2023-04-02
Sue and her team have always done amazing work for us over the years. Our business has benefitted dramatically from their services!
Jared Sims
Jared Sims
2022-09-15
Sue and her team have always done amazing work for us over the years. Our business has benefitted dramatically from their services!
Jared Sims
Jared Sims
2022-09-15
Brilliant compnay to deal with Sue knows her stuff and was a great help.
Ian Cambo
Ian Cambo
2022-08-21
Brilliant compnay to deal with Sue knows her stuff and was a great help.
Ian Cambo
Ian Cambo
2022-08-21
Sue had great understanding and input into how to best pitch my idea and wrote a great piece for me as well :)
John Pearson
John Pearson
2022-05-16
Sue had great understanding and input into how to best pitch my idea and wrote a great piece for me as well :)
John Pearson
John Pearson
2022-05-16

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WHY BIDBUDDY

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 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.

 

What we can also do for you

We don’t just write great tenders. We also prepare:

  • pitch decks
  • information memoranda
  • awards entries
  • grant applications
  • procedures, plans and process maps
  • business plans
  • operational plans,
  • management plans

Two Ways To Improve Your Tender Results

BidBuddy

Do It Yourself

If you want to do it yourself, since you have time, join up and use our professional resources
  • courses
  • templates
  • articles
  • wiki answers

We Do It For You

No time? Don’t know what to do? Don’t win enough? Let us write your tender responses for you.
  • strategy and planning
  • tender training, advice and coaching
  • tender preparation and management
  • polishing and content uplifting
FREE COURSE

How To Write Your
First Tender Response

If you want to respond to a request for a tenders, but
don’t know how or where to even begin, then this
free course is for you
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HOW MUCH WILL IT COST

No Tender is Too
Big or Too Small

The most common question we get, how much it will cost?

Why don’t you try our Bid Budget Calculator to see how much you should realistically invest to prepare and submit that tender. It will help you determine how much of that you are able to spend on getting some outside help.

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Let’s Win Some
Business
Together!

BidBuddy
Nobody can guarantee you will win when you submit your tender or proposal.

What we can promise you is that you will be given the very best opportunity possible to win. And if you have conducted your business development right, it can be new business, which equals growth.

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?
It depends on your budget, and the value of the tender you are responding to. In some cases, the opportunity isn’t high-enough value to justify paying a professional. So we recommend that you instead invest 2 hours and watch our free course.

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?
Ask around and see who uses who. Check out their referees. Talk to them. Select the one you feel the most confident in.

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).

Help, I've run out of time. Can you help me?
Writing a good tender response takes many, many hours of work. For first-timers with a simple tender, at least 30-40 hours, and more if we are looking at a large, complex job.

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
Ever seen what lawyers charge to represent people in court where anything can (and does) happen? Do most people represent themselves? No. Because they know they would have a fool for a client.

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?
We can for a fee. If that doesn’t work for you let us refer you to our good friends Australian Tenders. Sign up for a $100 discount code to help you on your journey. And don’t forget to come back to discuss your opportunity when you find it.
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 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.

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.

 

Can you help us with a Government tender?
Absolutely! Local, State and Federal government tenders are a specialty for us. We have substantial government procurement experience, which means we understand the meaning behind the questions so we can align your answers to achieving the goals of the government entity.

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