Live Bid Support

Crafting the Executive Summary

The Executive Summary is right up there with your Financials section as the most important element of your proposal – you’ve simply got to get this right.

If you don’t get the Exec Summary sorted it’s very likely that your proposal will fail.

Following your brief we create (or re-work) the Executive Summary for you. A professional Executive Summary additionally helps serve as a “yardstick” which is then applied to the rest of your proposal documentation.

This ensures consistency of flow and keeps your readers focused on the unique, differentiated benefits that only you can bring to them.

Or a service that you might value even more … we will show your team exactly how we do it, so that you can develop fantastic Executive Summaries in the future independently.

Bid Writing

Has one of your bid writers gone down sick (perhaps with the stress of recent workload?!) …

… or perhaps you just don’t have enough manpower available to meet your bid deadline?

Outsource the problem to us!

We’ll write the sections you ask us to … or even do the whole thing.

Graphics Creation

We live in an era when we need to get the message across really quickly, and ideally at a single glance.

Just think about how you operate yourself.

If you don’t “get” a new idea straightaway then aren’t you very likely to move on to something more interesting and rewarding? In your intended readers’ case this might be your competitor’s bid.

A picture paints a thousand words (as the time-honoured cliché goes), but a great picture also keeps the word count down!

The Winning Proposal takes complex but important ideas in raw text (and even verbal) form to re-create them as stimulating and intuitive graphics that are instantly grasped by your readers and reviewers … your buyers!

Shortlisting Presentation

Getting the bid out of the door and to your prospect on time always brings a mighty sense of relief, but the workload doesn’t end there, of course.

High value proposals and tenders necessitate attendance at one or more shortlisting presentation meetings.

Unfortunately, some of the people that you want to involve in the shortlisting presentation may have had only limited – and potentially zero – involvement in the development of the proposal itself.

Yet you cannot afford the risk of all the effort that you have put in so far going to waste at the final hurdle.

The shortlisting team must be brought to the point where they are all “on the same page” … and that “page” must be visual, compelling and different.

Working with your nominated team we will develop a powerful presentation for your forthcoming shortlisting meeting (usually in Microsoft PowerPoint).

But again, a wonderful shortlisting presentation alone will not guarantee success.

Even the most experienced directors and knowledgeable operations personnel, for instance, can trip up during the Q&A (Questions and Answers) session that follows the shortlisting presentation.

So we get your team to the point where that won’t happen (yet without the team appearing “unnatural” or “rehearsed”).

By the time your much-anticipated – but also dreaded – shortlisting meeting comes around you can rest assured that everyone on your team is going to shine and really impress your prospect’s selection panel.