Patrice SweeneyFreelance Bid Support

Services

Tenders can be a double-edged sword: necessary, but disruptive. They land when your team is already stretched, or ask for information that you’re sure you have… somewhere. When you’re balancing multiple workloads with drafting, it can also be difficult to step back and review a response objectively against the evaluation criteria.

I provide flexible tender support across live opportunities and longer-term improvements, giving contractors and SMEs additional resource during peak periods or when there’s an opportunity to strengthen their bidding process.

Tender Writing

I work with your operational and technical teams to develop clear, evidence-led responses that align with tender requirements and evaluation criteria.

Whether you're starting from a blank page or refining existing material, I help transform your capabilities and experience into structured, persuasive responses that accurately reflect your organisation's capability and approach.

Support also includes developing other written material such as case studies and capability statements to evidence expertise, communicate your offer clearly or support wider business development activity.

Pre-Submission Reviews

An independent review can provide valuable reassurance before a submission is finalised.

I review draft responses against the tender requirements and evaluation criteria, identifying opportunities to strengthen clarity, consistency, supporting evidence and overall quality before submission.

Reviews can focus on individual responses or an entire submission.

Library Development

Useful bid content is often scattered across previous submissions, shared drives and individual inboxes.

I help identify, refine and organise reusable material into a structured Bid Library, giving your team a clearer source of truth for future tenders.

A Bid Library may include case studies, policies, standard company information, technical methodologies, accreditations, supporting evidence and reusable response foundations.

Tender Process Development

If every tender feels like starting again from scratch, I can help you put a clearer and more repeatable process around bidding.

That can include mapping the stages of a tender, defining review points and responsibilities, setting up simple trackers, organising reusable content and documenting how information should move through the process.

The goal is to give your team a more consistent way to approach future opportunities, with less reliance on ad hoc coordination or individual memory.