Bid Writing Tenders and Contracts

This page tracks notices where a public body is buying bid writing or tender writing help for itself, not tenders that businesses might write in general. That covers specialist consultancy brought in for a single submission, ongoing bid-writing panels for procurement hubs, and training or workshops that teach suppliers, SMEs and community groups how to put together a stronger bid.

Stotles currently tracks 234 notices matching bid writing or tender writing, including 82 awarded contracts and 22 at pre-tender stage. New opportunities appear irregularly rather than on a steady drip, since bid-writing support is a specialist, low-volume category compared with something like cleaning or construction.

Local authorities, growth hubs, local enterprise partnerships, universities and NHS procurement collaboratives are the most frequent buyers, usually to build bidding skills among SMEs, charities and community groups, or to bring in specialist help for their own high-value submissions.

Value varies a lot. A single training workshop or webinar can be worth a few thousand pounds, while a specialist bid-writing consultancy framework for a university or NHS procurement hub can run into six figures. Both ends of that range show up regularly in the corpus.

Yes. Alongside contracts for hired-in bid writers, the filter also picks up training programmes, masterclasses and workshops that teach organisations to write their own bids. That gap is real. In the Stotles Supplier Survey, 53% of suppliers landed just one to five contracts last year, which is what this kind of training tries to fix.

The filter only keeps notices that explicitly mention bid writing or tender writing, so it is narrower than the wider procurement or business consultancy categories. A broad business-support framework only appears here if its own description names bid writing or tender writing as part of the work.