Welcome to the Win Strategy & Kick off phase of the bid toolkit
This phase of the bid process focuses on developing your proposition, win themes and commercial strategy.
Stage Objectives | Inputs | Key Steps | Outputs | Critical Success Factors | Top Tips
Stage Objectives
- Develop the win themes and 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 commercial lead
- Send Contract Terms for legal review
- Develop commercial strategy
- Mobilise supply-chain pricing (inc NDAs)
Inputs
Key Steps
The key steps for this phase are split between the strategy session and the kick off session.
Strategy Session
Kick off Session
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 Tips
- 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
Paid Tools & Training Module
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 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 kick off meeting pack for engaging your wider team and stakeholders
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.
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