Tender Writing
Expert tender writers to help you create winning tender proposals
Four pages per day… that’s how long it takes to write high quality, winning tender proposals.
Given your work load, will you really be able to commit sufficient time to create a winning tender proposal? Do your team have the tender writing skills? Unfortunately most people try to fit it in around their day job and end up producing OK rather than winning tender proposals. If your success rate is less than 1 in 3 then this may apply to you.
At Tenders UK we have a team of tender writers who expert in creating winning tender proposals. Tender writing is their job so they have the time and tender writing expertise needed to maximise the changes of submitting a winning tender proposal.
To access our expert tender writers contact us at enquiries@tenders-uk.org or call 01572 720 603.
Writer Profiles
Richard Neville — Bid Director/Evaluator
Richard has successfully written bids that have helped clients secure multi million pound contracts from public sector organisations. Prior to embarking on his proposal writing career he spent 4 years as senior contracts manager in the Department for Education and Skills. He also has over 6 years experience supporting Government Ministers’ presentational needs through speech writing and creating scripts/briefings for media interviews.
Dave Chapman — Bid Director
Dave has over 8 years experience of writing and successfully managing large globally distributed writing teams. His experience extends across many sectors and he has produced bids for IT, IT services, the NHS, Financial Services, Insurance, MoD, Home Office, DTI, Local Government, the BBC, BAE Systems, Telecommunications and Mobile operating companies, recruitment and manufacturing firms amongst many others.
Ian Brogan — Bid Director
Ian is a pragmatic individual with a proven track record of achievement in business development, bid writing and management and 15 years of commercial experience. He has a broad range of experience in public and private sector proposal writing and bid management and has written and managed bids for the world’s three largest industrial auction houses.
Mark Nicholson — Bid Director
Mark’s tender writing experience includes bids he has written for both local and central UK government, including departments such as the DTI, HMRC, DWP, MoD and Metropolitan Police. Over the last 34 years he has also worked in global markets such as China and the USA and has developed an in-depth knowledge of the Internet and new media.
Ian Evans — Principal Proposal Writer
Ian is a skilled and professional bid writer and senior manager with extensive experience of successfully writing winning tender bids.
In the last 3 years he has led a number of winning tenders around alcohol, drug and substance misuse services, securing, in total, upwards of £15m in funding. He has also secured funding from other sources including, ESF, Big Lottery, Charitable Trusts, LSC and Local Authorities.
Lisa Witham — Principal Proposal Writer
Over the last 8 years, Lisa has gained experience of writing tenders on behalf of investment management companies in the UK. Since 2008 she has worked as a consultant for institutional and retail investment management companies based in the UK, Europe and US.
She is ideally suited to tenders involving finance and financial instruments as she can quickly understand the tender requirement and contribute to the development of the solution.
Dr Andrew Cox — Senior Proposal Writer
Andrew has particular experience drafting and submitting a range of successful small and large funding applications for charities. He has also written applications to Lottery funds, DEFRA and local authorities. His particular sector of knowledge is Environmental Funding and his PhD is in Chemical and Process Engineering.
Bill Watson — Senior Proposal Writer
Bill is an academic with almost 20 years experience working in Universities, Hospitals and NHS trusts. He has an excellent understanding of the public sector funding landscape and has written successfully to the Dept of Health, Dept of Work and Pensions as well as various other research charities and local public sector organisations.
Jen Syrkiewicz — Senior Proposal Writer
Jen is a communications professional with a background in proposal bid and tender writing. She has experience of writing for complex proposals including change projects and social computing. She is an NLP master Practitioner who can boast a 98% success rate on bids written over the past twelve months and was the winner of the APMP award for ‘Outstanding Newcomer of the Year, 2007’.
Melanie Hill-Stephens — Senior Proposal Writer
Melanie is an experienced business developer and writer with a strong marketing and sales background. She has over 7 years experience of successful tender writing within the stationery, print and promotional gifts industries and has written tenders to public sector organisations including DEFRA, the Inland Revenue, NHS and Royal Mail, as well as blue chip and financial service sector companies, with typical contract values ranging between £150k and £5m.
Nick Brennan — Senior Proposal Writer
Nick has considerable international bid writing and project management experience within the education and skills arena, He also has experience of the NHS and IT systems and has worked with senior government level contacts in the UK, Yemen, Malawi and Bulgaria. He has written tenders and delivered projects for several funding streams including EC Socrates, Leonardo and ESF Programmes, EC PHARE, World Bank, LSC and London Development Agency.
Tony Brown — Senior Proposal Writer
Tony has vast experience of researching, writing and editing copy, including tender proposals, his main areas of expertise are the conservation and environmental sectors, and he also has experience in the NHS, education and tourism.
He has worked for a major civil engineering company, writing and editing tender documents on their behalf, often for public sector bodies such as the Highways Agency, and budgets upwards of £100m.
Amanda Westgate — Proposal Writer
Amanda has over 20 years experience in a range of business writing for both private and public sector organisations. She has provided copywriting support for companies of all shapes and sizes in highly diverse sectors, from Bras4mums to Whitbread, and AXA Insurance to The Manufacturing Institute.
Ravi Sangha — Proposal Writer
Ravi has experience of providing tender responses to corporate and public sector organisations and has been responsible for providing written LAN/WAN, IP telephony and wireless technical proposals. He has worked on major projects and has recently won projects with: the House of Commons, Chubb Insurance, and Building Schools for the Future (BSF) projects.
Juliet England — Proof Read & Copy Writer
Juliet has 4 years’ experience as a Business Communications Writer with a major constructions industry firm, working on tender documents to secure work from local government clients and the Highways Agency. She is an excellent proof-reader and bid editor, and is skilled in converting complex technical propositions into Plain English.
Expert tender writing to create winning tender proposals