Solution and story
Welcome to the Solution and story phase of your bid toolkit.
This phase of activity focuses on designing the service delivery model and using storyboarding to develop your responses.
Stage Objectives
Design the service delivery model
Develop response storyboards
Refine the commercial strategy
Quality Submission Objectives
Development Service Delivery Model
Organisation charts developed
Develop response storyboards
Agree tender queries
Commercial Submission Objectives
Develop pricing / resourcing model
How will the solution deliver value for money for the client?
Inputs
Key Steps
Solution
Story
Outputs
Critical Success Factors
Don’t rush straight to writing!
Think it through together as a team
A structured methodical approach
Clarity on winning solution / delivery team
Good facilitation
Enough time and commitment
Appropriate people allocated
Top Tops
Read the tender documents thoroughly
All authors to understand the specification / service requirements – enabling identification of added value or ‘exceeded expectations’
Take the time to storyboard responses thoroughly and with the right people in the room
Break down questions and scoring criteria and use component parts as headings / signposting
Agree commercial impact of T&Cs
Tools
A suite of templates and tools to support your tender
Our paid 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 Solution and Story file pack contains a 25% Solution and storyboard review meeting pack, a story-boarding template to help kick start your efforts, and a bid template.
Training Video
Ready to learn more?
The Solution & Story 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 below). 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.