Bid Management Service for Colleges

We provide a comprehensive Bid Management Service to colleges. Our services include:

  • Sourcing opportunities – providing a weekly email of funding opportunities that are relevant to your specific footprint and provision.
  • Identifying needs and researching local market intelligence to determine potential delivery volumes.
  • Researching local and regional priorities and forming links.
  • Supporting you in putting together an evidence base and track record.
  • Supporting your staff in responding to tender opportunities – we can take on the whole writing task or manage your experts to ensure that the maximum scoring is achieved. This includes any or all of the following:

    - completing pre-qualification questionnaires (PQQ) and expressions of interest (EoI)
    - preparing logic chains business (development and appraisal) plans, monitoring and evaluation plans, full
    proposals, presentations and background briefing documents
    - assisting at pre-contact interview and negotiations and attending presentations
    - proof reading and editing tender submissions
  • Coaching your staff in responding to tenders from the best ways to source opportunities and how to make the ‘bid/no-bid’ decision, to tender writing and presentation skills.
  • Brokering partnership delivery arrangements and co-funding.
  • Preparing delivery and sensitivity costings, completing financial questionnaires and risk assessments.
  • Helping you set up appropriate tracking systems.

Why seek support from our Bid Team?

We have an expert Bid Team that submits hundreds of tenders each year, mostly to the public sector. We have excellent track records of success with LSIS, the Skills Funding Agency, YPLA, TDA and all other funding agencies. We are experts in responses to Europe and the complexities of securing funding from Europe Aid, European Commission and Structural Funds.

Our bid writers are a small highly experienced team comprising individuals who have built our reputation for maximising client success rates - every project matters to us.

To discuss how we could work with you please contact us:

Tel: 020 7492 5000
Email: enquiries@lsnlearning.org.uk