A bid review before you press submit, £400 to £750
A review of a charity's funding application is £400 to £750. A review of a tender response is £550 to £950, because a tender response is longer and scored question by question. Both are fixed first. Send the draft with the funder's guidance or the tender pack, and it comes back marked up against the criteria the decision is made on, with every change explained. The read on whether a review is the right purchase comes first, and it is free.
The marked-up copy is yours whatever you decide next.
What is a bid review?
A bid review is an independent read of a funding application or tender response you've already written, held line by line against the funder's or the buyer's published criteria. It comes back as a marked-up copy with every change explained, so you fix what will cost you marks in the time you've got. Here it is £400 to £750 for a charity's funding application and £550 to £950 for a tender response, both fixed fees.
What do we get back for the fee?
- Your draft comes back marked up, every change explained in plain English and ranked by what it's worth, so the biggest three are the three you make first when the deadline is close.
- The criteria come back mapped to your answers: the assessor marks what's on the page against each criterion, so you get every requirement, the answer meant to meet it, and a note where nothing does.
- Every budget table gets added up again, independently of the draft, and checked against every number in your narrative, because a funder's finance reviewer finds a mismatch in minutes.
A review covers one read against the published criteria. Your budget or your pricing schedule is checked line by line, and the weakest answers come back named with the fix for each. One round of the changes you pick is made for you inside the fee, and anything wanted after that is quoted first.
What does a review actually catch?
One charity's narrative asked for one total, and their own budget table in the same document added up to a different one, £822 apart.
The overheads the same read found are on the case study page.
When a review is the wrong purchase
If the draft is for a fund you're not eligible for, a review cannot fix that, and nor can it supply evidence you have not got. The free first read says so before you pay.
If it needs writing again from your evidence, that's bid writing at £500 to £2,500, and you know that first.
What if this is one of several?
Every fee is on the pricing page, and for a whole year of applications retained support is from £950 a month.
Questions before you send a draft
What do we send with the draft?
The funder's guidance or the tender pack, the deadline, and the budget or the pricing schedule. Send those first, because without the criteria there is nothing to mark the draft against.
Send my draft and the funder link
Your draft and the guidance are enough to price the review and to say whether it is the right purchase.