If you run a subcontracting firm, the person writing your PQQs, tender answers and accreditation renewals is probably you — after hours, from a folder of old bids.
We take it off your plate. You talk, we write, you submit.
Site leadership and accountability. Health and safety on this package will be owned by a named individual: our working foreman, who holds SSSTS and has led masonry gangs on three occupied-site schemes in the last two years…
Managing the risks specific to this project. Three risks stand out on this scheme. First, work at height across three storeys: we will coordinate scaffold loading and handover inspections through your permit system, with daily pre-use checks recorded by our foreman. Second, the live public footpath on the north elevation…
Everything the industry throws at you is one of these. Build the underlying material once and every submission afterwards is assembly, not creation.
The "prove you're a legitimate firm" stage: insurance, accounts, health and safety policy, environmental controls, quality procedures, and examples of relevant contracts from the last three years.
For construction, this increasingly means the Common Assessment Standard — the Build UK standard that replaced PAS 91 after PPN 03/24 withdrew it. Version 4 added a building safety section.
Passing it doesn't win you anything. It qualifies you to submit a full tender — which is exactly why the tender itself has to be good.
Write your standard answers properly, once — company overview, policy summaries, and your past contracts turned into short, relevant, evidenced stories rather than a list of job names. Then every future questionnaire draws from it.
The actual bid for a specific job, in two halves: your price, and written quality answers scored against criteria the buyer publishes in the document.
This is where contracts are genuinely won and lost. Two firms can price within a percent of each other and the written answers decide it — which is why most subcontractors lose on writing, not on workmanship.
Assessors mark against a structure. Give them that structure, with named roles, real tickets and evidence they could check, and the marks become easy to award.
Draft every scored answer against the published criteria, written for that site and that job — not recycled. First draft back within 72 hours. You review, we adjust, you submit.
How you'll carry out the job safely, step by step, written per job and tied to your duties under CDM 2015. Legally required — no RAMS, no site access.
Most firms have a folder of old ones being lightly edited and resubmitted, which principal contractors spot immediately and reject.
One honest limit: the safety content has to come from you. It's your legal duty and your site knowledge. We're the pen, not your safety advisor.
Take your method — how you actually intend to do the work — and write it up clearly, in the structure principal contractors expect, so it reads as site-specific because it is.
The annual badges. Holding them means buyers don't re-check your safety credentials from scratch every time you bid — which is why they're worth having, and why renewing them is yet more form-filling.
Prequalification information is typically valid for around twelve months, and high-risk data like insurance needs updating more often than that.
Keep your profile current and consistent with everything else you submit, so renewals stop being a scramble and your answers don't contradict each other across platforms.
If a PQQ lands and the answer to "who's writing this?" is you, your QS, or your office manager at the weekend, we're built for you.
Most bid consultancies quote day rates and won't tell you the number until they've had you on a call. Here's ours, up front.
One phone call plus the paperwork you already have, turned into a polished master pack. Every future bid becomes assembly instead of a blank page.
Forward us the PQQ, SQ or ITT. We draft the scored quality answers — tailored to that job, that site, that scoring criteria. You review, approve and submit.
The full setup, then your next real submission written and out the door — so you see the thing working, not just sitting in a folder.
You know the work. We know what an assessor is looking for. That's the whole division of labour.
You talk about the firm and your jobs. You send over whatever you already have — insurances, accreditations, a few past projects. That's all we need to start.
You get a draft to review. We adjust until you're happy to put your name on it. Nothing goes out that you haven't approved.
And every bid after this one starts from your library instead of from scratch. The second submission takes a fraction of the time.
We'll send you a full worked example: a complete tender quality answer, plus a breakdown of exactly why it scores. Judge the writing yourself before you spend anything.
Ask for the sampleStraight answers, including the ones that don't flatter us.
Small firms have been burned by consultants before. Here's the deal in plain English.
Half on signing, half on delivery. No monthly retainer, no minimum term, no auto-renewal.
If the work isn't up to standard, don't pay the balance. We'd rather fix it than argue about it.
You keep it, in a format you can edit. If you never call us again, you're still better off than you were.
One honest note: we write your bids — nobody can promise you'll win them. Anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something. What we can promise is that the writing will never be the reason you lose one.
Ring us, or send the tender over and we'll tell you straight whether we can help before the closing date.