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Examples of the work

Before you send me anything, here's what you'd get back. Each example uses a real public tender or a question buyers ask all the time. Where a firm is needed, it's invented, and anything only you could know is left in [square brackets].

Free

• A go/no-go check: a £20,000 park footpath job for Swanley Town Council. What it asks for, what the buyer paid for similar work, the risks, and a verdict.
• Answering a market engagement survey: Sanctuary Care's window and gutter cleaning survey, question by question. Ten minutes that can shape the tender before it's written.
• Checking a re-tender of your own contract: South Yorkshire Fire's rescue boat training. The old contract against the new tender, where the marks are, and a plan to the deadline.
• The 10-minute checklist: the twelve questions I ask of every tender, so you can run them yourself.

First drafts (bid help)

• A quotation for a groundworks job: the Swanley footpaths again, led by the surfacing comparison the council asked for.
• Taking over a school cleaning contract: the mobilisation and TUPE question almost every cleaning tender asks.
• Planned and reactive maintenance: response times, out-of-hours cover and reporting, for heating, fire, gas and building services tenders.
• A ready-made answer library: the capability statement, case studies, policies and social value answers most tenders ask for, written once so every bid after is quicker.

The go/no-go check is always free. The first two full drafts I write are free too, in return for honest feedback. After that, drafts are a fixed price agreed before I start. How bid help works.