Bid and tender resources for UK teams
Guides, toolkits and templates to help your team prepare, write and present stronger bids. Some are free and some are paid, and every one is built around what evaluators look for, by someone who has evaluated bids as well as written them.
Practical help you can use on your next bid
Guides to download
Free and paid guides your team can work through together, with exercises built around how bids are scored.
Checklists from the blog
Articles with a checklist, test or method inside, from deciding whether to bid to getting the submission in.
Support with your team
When a guide isn’t enough, we can work with your team directly on a live bid, interview or review.
Guides to download and use with your team
Each one shows the price up front, so you can see straight away whether it’s free or paid.
Tender interviews and presentationsGet Your Team Bid Interview Ready
Five readiness areas, a 15-minute team exercise and a 30-point scorecard to help your team prepare for a tender interview or presentation.
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Free checklists and tools
Some of the most useful articles on the blog, each with a checklist, test or method you can use on your next bid.
Is this tender worth bidding for?
A practical decision test to help you work out whether a tender is worth your team’s time.
Bid writingThe evaluator tick-box method
How evaluators read quality answers, and how to structure yours so every requirement is easy to mark.
Bid writingTender response checklist
Check your draft against the scoring criteria so every point the evaluator is looking for is easy to find.
Bid reviewThe evidence gap test
Check whether your bid proves what it claims, one claim at a time.
Bid reviewRed vs gold review
What each review stage is for, who should be involved and when to run them.
Bid managementTender submission checklist
What to check and fix when you have two days left before the deadline.
Grant funding7 questions to ask before applying for any grant
A quick checklist to see whether a grant is the right fit before you commit.
Grant fundingTheory of change for grant applications
How to build a clear theory of change that funders can follow.
Resources are a good start. When you want more, we can work with your team directly.
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