Tender Diagnostic · Cost & TOTEX ·
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Bid & tender advisory services
Six ways to challenge a bid
while it can still change.
Bid and tender advisory for EPC, BOT/PPP and DBOM projects, from a fast bid / no-bid read to a method your team owns. Every engagement is senior-led, strictly confidential, and clearly scoped before work begins.
06 solutions · 01 senior point of contact
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We don’t write your bid. We challenge it independently, at the moment a decision can still change.
The six solutions
Pick the question you need answered.
Each solution answers one question, at one moment of the bid. Most clients start with a Tender Diagnostic and add the others when the stakes justify it.
01
A fast, independent read of the opportunity, the contract and the risks, ending in a clear recommendation the board can act on.
What you get
- A GO, REPOSITION or NO-GO recommendation
- The few risks that decide the outcome
- A short memo for the board
02
Before the price is locked
Is the price realistic, and is the contingency enough?
An outside challenge of the estimate before the price is locked: contingency, escalation, site overheads and indirect costs.
What you get
- Contingency checked at P50 and P80
- Escalation and currency exposure
- Indirect costs against benchmarks
03
Your offer read and scored the way the client and its lenders will read it, weeks before they do.
What you get
- A score against the tender criteria
- Compliance gaps and weak win themes
- Rehearsal for the oral defence
04
Won and lost tenders analysed together, so the lessons become decision rules your next bid can use.
What you get
- Why margins slipped, bid by bid
- Gaps against the winning offers
- Decision rules and bid limits
05
Case-based sessions for bid, commercial and project directors, built on anonymised real tenders.
What you get
- Mock client clarification sessions
- Contingency and escalation workshops
- Committee and oral defence clinics
06
Permanent capability
How do you make good bid decisions every time, not just once?
Gate governance and qualification rules built with your people, piloted on a live bid, then owned in-house.
What you get
- Four decision gates with clear owners
- Qualification scorecard and templates
- A playbook your team runs
When to call us
The earlier the challenge, the cheaper the change.
A typical tender timeline, and the solution that fits each moment. Training can run at any time.
T – 18 months
Opportunity
Should we pursue it?
Unclear funding, heavy liabilities, low win odds.
Fits
T – 6 months
Strategy
How should we bid, and with whom?
Partner split, liability allocation, win themes.
Fits
T – 5 weeks
Price
What price can we defend?
Contingency, escalation, indirect costs.
T – 12 days
Submission
Will the offer score?
Compliance gaps, weak themes, untested oral defence.
Fits
After award
Debrief
What do we keep for next time?
Repeated estimating errors, lost margin.
Fits
How we work
Senior, confidential,
scoped upfront.
01
A senior lead on every mission
The person who scopes the mission is the person who delivers it. Senior specialists join only when the mission needs them.
02
Under mutual NDA
Signed before any document is shared. No client names, ever.
03
Scope agreed first
A fixed scope and deliverables, confirmed after a first call, before any work starts.
04
Independent
Reporting to your executive sponsor, not to the bid team. No stake in the outcome of the tender.
Not sure which solution fits? A 30-minute conversation is usually enough to tell.
Before you commit to this bid, get an independent read.
A confidential 30-minute conversation with a senior bid director, under mutual NDA.