Strategy and Launch

Welcome to the Win Strategy & Launch phase of your bid toolkit

This phase of the bid process focuses on developing your proposition, win themes and commercial strategy and then kicking the bid off with everyone aligned.

 Stage Objectives

  • Develop the win themes and headline commercial strategy for the bid

  • Kick off the development of content, with everyone aligned

Quality Submission Objectives

  • Develop win themes

  • Mobilise contributors

  • Mobilise supply-chain

Commercial Submission Objectives

  • Mobilise the Commercial Lead

  • Send Contract Terms for legal review

  • Develop headline commercial strategy

  • Mobilise supply-chain pricing (inc NDAs)

Inputs

 
 

Key Steps

Strategy

 
 
 
 

Kick Off

 

Outputs

 

Critical Success Factors

Strategy

  • Clear leadership

  • Enthusiasm for the opportunity with a desire to win

  • Detailed understanding of the client, their influencers and the opportunity

  • Commitment of time to strategy development

Kick off

  • Pre-meeting information distributed prior to meetings

  • Appropriate meeting facilities booked in advance

  • Right people in the room

  • Client documents and research to hand

  • Bid strategy printed / on the walls

  • A pre-populated draft bid plan, agreed with the bid leader

Top Tops

  • Win themes need to be specific for the client and opportunity

  • Capture all insights we have on the client and influencers

  • Analyse relationships with the buyers (economic / technical / user/ influencers / decision makers)

  • Consider client’s political climate

  • Get into the detail of how the client will analyse / score price

  • Understand how the client will make the decision and how you can play to that

Tools

A suite of templates and tools to support your tender

Our tools are designed to support your activity throughout the bid phases and help you to submit an engaging and compliant bid to your client.

Our Win Strategy and Kick Off pack contains

  • a Win Strategy session meeting pack

  • a charter of your roles and responsibilities for your team

  • a full bid plan template to project manage your bid with and

  • a launch meeting pack for engaging your wider team and stakeholders

 

Training Video

Ready to learn more?

The Win Strategy & Kick Off training module is delivered online and has been curated by bidding experts, giving you real world insights in to the bid process that you can access any time, anywhere.

To view the training video simply click the ‘rent’ button (top right). This will take you to our Vimeo On Demand page where you will be able to rent and watch this training module or the full course.