BidBuddy
Tendering Services
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.
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-Ince2024-03-15BidbBuddy 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-Ince2024-03-15Have 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 Barr2024-02-15Have 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 Barr2024-02-15Sue 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 Gladwell2023-10-19Sue 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 Gladwell2023-10-19Sue 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 Edwards2023-10-11Sue 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 SueDaniel Edwards2023-10-11We'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 Vaughan2023-06-01We'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 recommendMat Vaughan2023-06-01Amazing team of professionals who always deliver top quality service on time and with incredible added value
Steve Lennon2023-04-02Amazing team of professionals who always deliver top quality service on time and with incredible added valueSteve Lennon2023-04-02Sue and her team have always done amazing work for us over the years. Our business has benefitted dramatically from their services!
Jared Sims2022-09-15Sue and her team have always done amazing work for us over the years. Our business has benefitted dramatically from their services!Jared Sims2022-09-15Brilliant compnay to deal with Sue knows her stuff and was a great help.
Ian Cambo2022-08-21Brilliant compnay to deal with Sue knows her stuff and was a great help.Ian Cambo2022-08-21Sue had great understanding and input into how to best pitch my idea and wrote a great piece for me as well :)
John Pearson2022-05-16Sue had great understanding and input into how to best pitch my idea and wrote a great piece for me as well :)John Pearson2022-05-16
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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.
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What we can also do for you
- pitch decks
- information memoranda
- awards entries
- grant applications
- procedures, plans and process maps
- business plans
- operational plans,
- management plans
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- 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
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free course is for you
No Tender is Too
Big or Too Small
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.
Let’s Win Some
Business Together!
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?
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?
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?
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?
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.