Specialist Bid Support for Providers within the Training & Education Sector
ESS has a quality assured team of highly successful bid writers who have proven track records and over 20 years’ experience in accessing high volumes of funding for both employers and training providers.
The team is headed by the Director of Funding and Procurement, Gavin Newbold who has over 20 years of bid writing experience at the very highest level including BDO Accountancy as well as writing International European Tenders.
In addition, ESS has a network of associate bid writers who have specialist bid writing experience in areas such as quality and compliance, supply chain and data management which add value to any bid.
We work with a range of employers, colleges, workplace learning providers and private training companies.
Our Bid Team submit high quality bids on behalf of clients and offer support from EOI, PQQ through to final ITT. We offer this service for a range of funding streams including, but not limited to; Specific Public Sector tender opportunities (OJEU), Apprenticeship Funding, European Regional Development Fund, European Social Fund (SSU, SSW, SSR, NEET etc), DWP DPS', NHS Frameworks and PFI.
ESS have worked with thousands of providers. This experience, along with the use of our Tendertracker can be used to identify the most suitable opportunities for your business and assist you in making bid/no bid decisions.
As part of our comprehensive tender review service, we’ll check your responses against the bid requirements and provide you impartial feedback on how you can improve your bid, score higher and improve your chance of success.
As well as helping our clients to access various funds, we regularly submit RoATP and EPAO applications on behalf of providers with 100% success rate. Our Bid Writing team also support businesses looking to register as a training provider, or gain accreditation for their courses.
ESS offers a flexible approach to fees and operates a number of different partnership models. We charge a daily rate for an ESS Bid Writer which depends on the length and complexity of a bid. We are also able to take a flexible approach which involves a mixture of a daily rate per bid and an agreed win bonus of any grant fee awarded.
We pride ourselves on transparency and provide tailored quotes which outline the time, costs and bid writer you’ll be working with for your approval, upfront.
Once we have achieved your first bid win you may want to consider developing your business relationship with us on a retainer basis combined with an agreed win bonus of any grant fee awarded.
If we do not believe that you have a reasonable chance of success with your intended bid we will tell you up-front
We will only work with bid writers with a proven track record of successful bids
We will provide details of any bid writer working on your bid including details of previous successes and experience
We will aim to let you have a first draft of your bid at least one week before the deadline (providing the lead time allows for this)