Transform Your Bidding Success
Tailored strategies for winning bids and enhancing performance.
About Clearwater Associates
Our Mission
Experiencing the thrill of winning is one of the rewards of bidding. The reality is most businesses experience the opposite , leading to an uncertain pipeline, staff doing more and more, with less and less chance of success.
Improving your bids to succeed could need minor nuances in presentation. Often the solutions to succeed are deep rooted and long term. We can help you develop the skills to succeed by offering a tailored approach to suit your business, your teams strengths and the complexity of the bids you want to win.
About Paul
Paul Phillips has over 20 years experience in the construction industry. Working as operations manager and framework director Paul understands the issues in delivering construction projects large and small and the benefits provided by programs of work. As Frameworks Director for Morgan Sindall plc, Paul grew the number of public sector frameworks from eight to in excess of fifty, personally bid managing, leading, and writing successful tenders in the public and private sectors.
As a Chartered Architect and design manager he has a unique insight into the design process and how to add value into the design process.
Our Services
Strategic Review
We will review your work winning processes, win rates and previous bids. Working collaboratively with your team develop an action plan to deliver your business strategy.
Trainer
Through structured training we will show you and your team how to create high scoring submissions, address client needs and how to present at interview effectively
Bid manager
Leading the process, setting the timescales, identifying the win plan and managing the bid to meet the commercial and qualitative elements with your team.
Critical friend
Through workshops to challenge, advise and review the team’s ideas and proposals to add value at the right time.
Writer
Working with your teams to write compelling responses, edit technical content and maximize the scoring potential with the evaluator.
Facilitator
Workshops, reviews, blue sky thinking and strategy—a trained facilitator to help you get to the right answers
Design review
Using experience of being an architect, design manager and construction professional to unpick designs and suggest winning value engineering and risk avoidance strategies