The process, start to finish
What do you send us, and what comes back?
An hour to an hour and a half on a call. That is the whole of what this asks of your own people. The funder's guidance or the tender documents, your deadline and anything already written go in the first message, and the reply carries the fee, the dates and whether the bid is worth making.
Or call 07984 845440, or email [email protected].
You hear back within 24 hours.
You get the fee, the dates and a yes or no on bidding, before anything starts
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You send the guidance and get the fee, and whether to bid
The funder's guidance or the tender documents, your deadline, and anything already written. That first read is free: it comes back as a plain yes or no on whether to bid, and a fixed fee with the scope and the dates if the answer is yes.
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An hour to an hour and a half on a call
We ask for evidence you already hold: monitoring, evaluations, accounts, delivery records, past bids, and the bid gets built out of those.
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We write it, you decide the open questions, then you submit
It's built from your evidence against the criteria it will be marked on. With it comes a change log, which lists every change and why it was made and ranks them by what each is worth, the gaps we couldn't close, and the short list of questions only you can answer. You make those calls, they go into the document, and it goes in under your own name.
Which is yours?
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You send the draft and the guidance
The funder's guidance or the tender documents, your deadline, and the draft as it stands.
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The reply carries the fee
You hear back within 24 hours. If you send a deadline, you hear inside one working day whether we can meet it, and that comes before you pay anything. The reply carries the fixed fee for the review and a plain answer on whether the bid is worth making.
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The review comes back marked
A review comes back within 3 working days from the day the tender documents land. Every change is marked against the criteria and ranked by what it is worth.
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You decide, then you submit
You make the calls on what changes, and it goes in under your own name.
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You send the guidance
The funder's guidance or the tender documents, your deadline, and anything already written.
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The reply carries the fee, the dates and whether to bid
You hear back within 24 hours. If you send a deadline, you hear inside one working day whether we can meet it, and that comes before you pay anything. That first read is free: it comes back as a plain yes or no on whether to bid, and a fixed fee with the scope and the dates if the answer is yes.
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An hour to an hour and a half on a call
We ask for evidence you already hold: monitoring, evaluations, accounts, delivery records, past bids, and the bid gets built out of those.
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We write it to the dates in the reply
It's built from your evidence against the criteria it will be marked on. With it comes a change log, which lists every change and why it was made and ranks them by what each is worth, the gaps we couldn't close, and the short list of questions only you can answer.
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You decide the open questions, then you submit
You make those calls, they go into the document, and it goes in under your own name.
What a bid takes out of your week, and what it costs to hand over
What you are holding is the guidance or the tender documents, a date, and whatever somebody started writing. What it takes from here is a week of somebody who knows how the criteria are marked. That week is the cost.
Sometimes the answer is don't bid. If the criteria say you're ineligible, or the wrong size, or the fund closes before your case can be ready, you get that with the reasoning before any fee is agreed.
The fee, the questions that are yours, and who presses submit
The fee
Half the fee starts the work and the other half is due on delivery. A retained month is paid in advance, and the first payment starts the work.
What goes in the document
Every figure and every statement traces to something you gave us. Where the evidence is missing you get a named gap and, where there's time, a way to fill it before the deadline.
Who submits
You do. We hold none of your funder or portal logins, and every word a funder or a buyer reads arrives from your own people.
Why every table gets added up again
Theo Ilori writes every application and every tender response that leaves here, and his background is engineering. More on the about page.
That is one bid. If you go to more funders than one person can keep up with, the same cycle runs every month on a retained month from £750 a month.
One message carries the guidance, the deadline and your draft
It comes back priced, with the dates, and with a straight answer on whether the bid is worth making at all.