Bidding for Nuclear Industry projects?

Maximise your chances of a successful bid

A bid team performing at anything less than its best can put the entire bid at risk, lower your hit-rate, multiply costs and erode your capability to compete for future work. Early involvement from Acorn can significantly increase your chances of a successful bid.

We understand what it takes to bid successfully. We have an extensive proven track record of working with partnerships and multi-agency teams in the construction and heavy engineering sectors that have resulted in significant bid wins. Clients include organisations such as Skanska, Carillion, Bovis and BAM PPP.

Our approach helps consortia teams focus on winning the bid through:

  • Defining and understanding client’s needs
  • Exerting positive influence on the development of the client’s thinking
  • Generating client confidence in the team’s capability
  • Building an innovative and cost-effective solution
  • Communicating convincingly as a team
  • Minimising the risk, building the opportunity
  • Maximising utilisation of experience and learning from previous bids
  • Preparing a quality handover to the delivery team

These factors make the difference between a team being simply a partnership on paper or delivering its true capability in reality.

Get your team into shape from the start

Our bid team support programme begins with an honest and impartial assessment of your team’s performance. This provides critical information on the likelihood of success and considers the characteristic dynamics of multi-agency and partnership organisations such as:
  • Cultural compatibility
  • Strategic capability
  • Clarity of vision and levels of buy-in
  • Realism of partnership expectations
  • Functioning and distribution of roles and responsibilities
  • Quality of communication and interaction
  • Recognition and management of stakeholders
  • Team climate, confidence and motivation
  • Capability to innovate

Acting on this early in the bid process can reveal important data to help maximise the team’s chances of success in the final bid.

Fast, simple, focused and effective

Results from your team’s assessment will quickly establish a focus for a tailored programme of team coaching and training expertise to meet the needs of your team, for example:
  • Bridging and melding cultures to focus on team performance and success
  • Building and maintaining a unifying, bid-winning vision and strategy
  • Optimising communication, relationships and interaction within the team
  • Optimising the conditions for innovation, problem-solving and ‘can do’ attitude

Using the assessment stage as a benchmark, the process can quickly demonstrate measurable improvement in key bid-winning capabilities. Periodic review can ensure the team remains on track and respond to any pressures or difficulties encountered as the bid progresses.

Enhance your pitching performance

After months of hard work preparing and researching your bid, you need to ensure your team performs well on the day of the formal presentation. Acorn can help your team work as one seamless, single entity rather than an eclectic mix of different cultures and working styles.

Don’t leave bidding to chance, there’s too much at stake. Contact us to find out how Acorn can help you increase your bid-winning success rate.