Bid Crucible Get a fixed fee

For UK companies

Put your delivery into the answer.

Tender writing and review for UK companies.

For companies too small to keep a bid writer on the payroll. Your delivery record becomes scored answers, with eligibility gaps checked before the writing begins.

Tender review £395. Full tender £1,950. The initial read is free. You hear back within 24 hours.

Base fees. An applicable award payment is additional, including for reviews. See award amounts and terms.

Inside an illustrative tender

An answer.
With a trail.
  1. 01
    The buyer's question

    Who takes responsibility during the handover?

  2. 02
    Your delivery record

    Roles, plans and the records that support them.

  3. 03
    The response

    A clear commitment, linked to the relevant evidence.

The requirements in your tender set the test.

Choose your starting point

Choose the help your tender needs

01 / Already drafted

Review the draft

£395

A marked-up draft, criteria check and budget check, with the changes ranked.

One selected revision round included. Writing from scratch is separate.

Explore a review

02 / One live deadline

Write the response

£1,950 full tender

Scored answers, method statements and social value, written from your delivery record.

Scope and deadline agreed first. You approve and submit.

Explore the writing

03 / Ongoing opportunities

A month of tenders

from £1,500 a month

Find suitable opportunities and write the applications your agreed monthly plan includes.

Paid monthly in advance. A month's notice ends it.

Explore monthly support

Budget for the award payment too. A grant or tender carries an additional payment if awarded, agreed before work starts. See amounts, due dates and full payment terms.

Inside the work / Illustrative example

Prove the delivery. Check the right to bid.

An illustrative repairs tender. Separate a useful operating record from a requirement it cannot satisfy.

Read the complete example below.

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Operations file / Responsive repairs

Duty rota
A supervisor owns the open-job review
Escalation log
Unresolved jobs pass to the responsible manager
Tender question
Explain how you prevent repairs being left unresolved
Responsibility
Duty supervisor reviews open repairs
Evidence
Duty rota + escalation log
01 / Your strength

Open the delivery record.

A duty rota and escalation log describe how this example business handles unresolved repairs.

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Requirement → evidence → answer

Requirement
Explain responsibility for unresolved repairs
Source
Duty rota and escalation log

Matched answer

The duty supervisor reviews open repairs and records escalations to the responsible manager.
Buyer asks
Who owns unresolved repairs?
Answer
The supervisor reviews and records escalations
02 / The match

Make the responsibility explicit.

Match the operating evidence to the buyer’s question, instead of calling the team experienced.

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Participation check / Still unresolved

Delivery method
Supported by the rota and log
Required accreditation
Current certificate not supplied
Status
Eligibility must be checked

A real boundary: Do not imply the qualification exists. Check the requirement and evidence before proceeding.

Delivery method
Supported by the rota and log
Still needed
The required accreditation certificate
03 / Eligibility

A strong answer cannot replace accreditation.

In this example, the buyer also requires accreditation. Its current evidence has not been supplied.

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Tender decision record

First
Confirm the accreditation requirement is met
Then
Check the written answer against the operating records
Client approval
Confirm the commitments and final prices

Your account: You approve and submit the tender. Your portal logins stay with you.

First
Confirm eligibility
Then
Approve the answer, commitments and prices
04 / The decision

Decide whether the bid can proceed.

Resolve the requirement first. Then approve the response and your delivery commitments before uploading it.

Discuss my tenderSkip example ↓

Your tender, with the scope agreed first

A full tender is £1,950. A shorter response is from £500. Half the fee starts the work and the other half is due on delivery. One round of the changes you pick is made for you inside the fee, and anything wanted after that is quoted first.

The full tender includes scored answers, method statements explaining how you will deliver, social value and the eligibility check. Everything produced is yours on delivery. You approve the final answers and submit through your own account. Your logins stay with you.

Every answer written for a company here goes into an answer library, your own written answers kept current, and the next tender is written from it. So the second month asks less of your team than the first.

See the writing scope.

Your team has written it?

See what a marked-up review returns →

One round of the changes you pick is made for you inside the fee, and anything wanted after that is quoted first. Writing from scratch is separate.

The fee covers a draft up to 3,000 words or six scored questions, whichever comes first. A longer draft is priced from the free read before you send it.

Planning beyond this tender?

  • £1,500 a month: up to 1 full tender, or 2 shorter responses.
  • £2,950 a month: up to 2 full tenders.

Capacity depends on suitable opportunities and your evidence. A month's notice ends it. See monthly scope, exclusions and the founding offer →

One payment on an award, agreed in advance

On a win there is one more fee. It is agreed before any work starts and invoiced when the funder's or the buyer's award letter arrives, and you pick its shape before anything begins, so it goes into your bid budget before you commit.

The payment on a win, on a company tender
Payable on the award
First year under £100,000£1,500
First year £100,000 to £250,000£3,000
First year more than £250,000£5,000

On an award you pick one of two, and you pick before any work starts. Either the fixed fee in the table above, or 5 per cent of the first-year value of the contract you win, capped at £15,000 and agreed in writing before anything begins.

Full commercial terms, in one place.

Keep control of the tender

  1. Get the fit, fee and dates

    Send your contact details, the tender documents and the deadline if known. The first read is free.

  2. Supply the delivery record

    An hour to an hour and a half on a call, plus your relevant contracts, policies, certificates and figures. Missing evidence and questions come back to you.

  3. Approve and upload

    Review the completed response and prices, settle the remaining decisions and submit through your own portal account.

Answering the buyer's or the funder's clarification questions after a submission we wrote is quoted before it starts. There is no VAT to add to the published fees. Any applicable award payment is additional to the base fee.

Before handing over the documents

Can a bid writer guarantee a win?

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No writer decides the award, and on most packs price carries part of the score. What the answers can do is take every mark that is left, which is why each one is written under the criterion it is scored on.

Who approves and uploads the tender?

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Everything produced is yours on delivery. You approve the final answers and submit through your own account. Your logins stay with you.

How are our documents and AI handled?

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Whether AI is used, and what happens to your material, are both answered on the security page.

Tell us about the tender

Add your contact and company details, then the tender link, a file or a short description. Include the deadline if known. For monthly support, describe the contracts you want to bid for.

Or call 07984 845440, or email [email protected].

1. Where we can reach you

Your contact details let us respond about your enquiry.

2. What would help? (required)
3. Tell us what you are working on

Add a link, a short note or a file. Any one is enough. For ongoing support, tell us what you want to apply for.

Attach guidance or a draft Optional files +
PDF, Word, Excel or a zip file. Up to 8 files, 25 MB each and 60 MB in all.Your files are used for your bid only, no model is trained on them, and they are deleted on request. The security page says how AI is used on them.A signed confidentiality and data handling agreement is available before you send anything. Ask in the note.
Add more background Optional details +
Your first read is free.

You get a view on whether to bid and the fixed fee for the work. You hear back within 24 hours.

The marked-up review is a paid service. See fees and scope.

Have a past submission? See the free-read scope +

Or send a tender you already sent and lost, and attach it above. That read is free too, one per organisation, up to twenty pages. The marked-up read is the paid review, and its fee is on the pricing page.

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