Tenders and grants
You win the work.
We do the part that stops most people.
Most good bids are never written. Not because the bidder could not do the job, but because the deadline lands in a week that is already full, the questions are written in a language nobody speaks, and the evidence is scattered across five folders and two laptops. That is the part we take. You stay the bidder, you stay in control, and the contract is yours.
Who does what
On a public tender the bidder has to be you. That is not a limitation we are working around, it is the point: you keep the contract, the relationship and the track record. We do the work that turns a capable organisation into a scoring one.
| Stage | We do | You do |
|---|---|---|
| Find | Daily scan of eTenders, TED, framework notices and funder calls in the markets you named | Tell us the markets, the thresholds and what you will not bid for |
| Qualify | Bid or no-bid, scored against the published award criteria and your real capability. We will tell you not to bid. | Make the call |
| Write | The full response, drafted to the criteria, with a criteria map showing where every mark is earned | Approve every word. Nothing goes out you have not read |
| Evidence | Pull what we already hold about you, and tell you exactly what is missing | Give us each piece once |
| Check | Draft at T-5, ratified at T-2, by a named human reviewer against a published gate | Sign it |
| Submit | Walk you through the portal and stay on the line | Submit it yourself, in your name, from your account |
| Debrief | Request the buyer feedback, score the loss, and fix the weakest answer before the next one | Give us twenty minutes |
T-5 and T-2 mean five and two working days before the deadline. They are quality gates, not an upsell — there is no rush tier, and we do not sell one.
Autonomous support, with you in the loop
The reason this works at these prices is that most of it runs without a person waiting on another person. The scanning, the drafting, the evidence assembly and the record keeping are automated. The decisions are not.
Automated
Opportunity scanning, criteria mapping, first drafts, evidence assembly, deadline tracking, version history, the audit trail.
Human, always
The bid-or-no-bid call. The named reviewer who signs the gate. Any claim about your capability. The submission itself. Anything that creates a liability.
Yours, always
The account, the submission, the contract, the client relationship, the evidence pack, and the decision to walk away.
It only runs this way if the system knows enough about you. That is what the questions are for — we publish every one of them, so you can see what we ask and why before you answer anything.
Tenders — what it costs
| Product | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Tender triage | €250 | One live tender scored against the published award criteria, in 48 hours. Includes the honest answer if it is a no. |
| Single bid, standard | €1,500 | To 5,000 words. Full response, criteria map, reviewer note. |
| Single bid, extended | €2,900 | 5,000 to 12,000 words. |
| Single bid, framework or multi-lot | €5,800 | Scoped before we start. |
| Success fee, if you win | 2% of first-year contract value, capped in cash | Agreed and capped in the engagement letter before you commit. Read the rules below. |
Grants — what it costs
| Product | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Grant application | €2,500 plus 3% of the award, capped | Scheme fit, the full application, the budget, the evidence annexes, and the reviewer gate. |
| Horizon Europe consortium | €9,500 plus 2% of the award, capped | Partner search, consortium build, the proposal, and the coordination pack. |
| Regulatory readiness check | €350 | One obligation as a scored one-pager. Often the thing an evaluator marks you down for. |
The success fee, and the rules we hold ourselves to
Read this before you agree a success fee. It protects you more than it protects us.
- It is capped in cash, in writing, before you commit. You will always know the largest number it can ever be. There is no uncapped percentage anywhere in our terms.
- It is payable from your own funds, never out of the award. Grant funders treat proposal preparation as falling outside the funded period, so our fee is not an eligible cost. Paying a consultant out of awarded money that was never budgeted for it is misuse of funds. We will not invoice you in a way that invites you to do it.
- If the funder or the buyer disallows it, it is waived to that extent, automatically. That is a clause in our client terms, not a promise. You will never be put in breach of your own funding agreement in order to pay us.
- You get a written statement of our fee arrangement, free, whenever you ask — so you can disclose it in any tender declaration or funder return. Our terms require you to disclose it where the rules require it, and we will hand you the wording.
- We never contact the buyer, the funder, or anyone evaluating your bid. Not to lobby, not to clarify, not to introduce ourselves. The fee is for work product, never for influence. This is the line that separates a lawful success fee from a corrupt one, and we do not go near it.
You can decline the success fee. Any engagement can be priced as a fixed fee only. Ask, and we will quote it both ways.
What we do not do
We do not submit for you
The bid goes in from your account, in your name, by your hand. You are the bidder and the responsibility for the truth of what is in it is yours. Our client terms say so plainly rather than hiding it.
We do not guarantee an outcome
Nobody can. We do not warrant that you will be shortlisted, scored at any level, awarded a contract or funded, and we do not quote win rates we cannot evidence.
We team businesses, we do not place people
If you cannot pass the eligibility page alone, we put you alongside an organisation that can, under a teaming agreement — you keep your own name, your own scope and your own insurance. It is faster than hiring, and it leaves you with a track record instead of a payslip. How partnering works.
We do not bid against our own clients
Every opportunity goes into one exclusivity register. If a client is on a tender, we are not, and neither is another client. First entry wins. No exceptions and no separate teams.
Start with Start Light
One page, honest, no obligation: what you are ready to bid for today, what is missing, and which of the two routes below fits you.