the bid toolkit

the bid toolkit is a simple step by step online guide for delivering winning bids and a constant reference point for your whole team and training tool throughout the bid lifecycle.

Using knowledge and insight gained from consultations over five years with capture, bid and pitch leaders working at leading consulting, outsourcing, IT, legal and construction firms of all sizes – the bid toolkit team have produced an easy to follow bid process to help improve your win rates.

Jeremy brings 20 years of experience as a bid management professional across both the public/federal and private sectors. He has led successful bid functions spanning professional services, outsourcing and construction – securing an enviable collection of high-profile projects, programmes and frameworks with blue chip clients around the globe. Importantly, he has learned from the best - working with a range of incredible business leaders of multi-billion dollar organisations, their cutting edge bid teams, and their entrepreneurial sales teams to develop winning propositions.

Jeremy progressed through his career to senior roles in high growth global organisations, from Mouchel and EC Harris, to Mace. Early on he developed a specialism in UK and European public sector tendering, in both central and local government, which is still called upon today. The robust compliance driven nature of public sector proposals provided a great grounding to expand his experience in to the private sector, securing large scale frameworks and programmes with corporate clients. Jeremy has since led large professional proposals functions as well as held client facing roles as an Account Leader and Sector Lead.

For more than 15 years he has led business development and tendering training programmes for directors, partners, associates and graduate schemes. In between large corporate roles he has continued to deliver significant ROI for SME business owners, entrepreneurs and investors as a board member, advisor and Non-Exec.

In the autumn of 2018 Jeremy decided to pursue a portfolio career full time. He now works with leadership teams and business owners as a consultant and advisor to plan and deliver sustainable growth through analysis and interventions across the sales cycle. He operates retained executive client development programmes, undertakes research and capture projects and advises on strategic pursuits.

YPO, the UK’s largest publicly owned buying organisation, has formed a new partnership with Growth Ignition, a consultancy that supports organisations in improving their approaches to business development (and owner of the bid toolkit product line). The partnership is focused on vastly improving the experience of suppliers in engaging with YPO and other public and private sector buyers through procurement processes through the provision of online and in-person engagement, tools and training opportunities. At its heart the partnership brings together leading edge private sector bidding best practice with procurement specialist insights on what clients want to see.