When deals are won by teams of people, you need the right teammates by your side who take pride in their craft and hate losing just as much as you do.
Our Promise:
We commit to being…
Experts in our field,
there’s no drop-off from sales to delivery
Hands on,
not hands in pockets
Responsive,
not complacent
Legacy builders,
not one-hit wonders
Empathetic,
not lecturing
Innovators,
not followers
Pragmatic,
not overwhelming
Networkers,
because communities work better
Coaches,
not mercenaries
Leaders of the bid and proposal profession, not passengers
Crafters
The BidCraft crew
We’re a team of bidding artisans that takes pride in its craft, loves to go beyond the bland, always sweats the details, and never settles.
All
Australia
United Kingdom
Mission. Ethos. Culture
Big deals. Big impact.
Based in the UK and Australia, we are an award-winning* firm of consultants with expertise in bidding large complex public sector and defence deals, and leading bid functions.
Deliberately compact, we carry impact beyond our headcount. In 2023 we saw a gap in the industry and acted on it by instigating and authoring BSI PAS 360:2023, the international code of best practice for bid and proposal management.
We also launched an annual International Day for Bids and Proposals to recognise and celebrate the contribution bid and proposal professionals make to economic growth through their commitment and expertise.
* Winners of APMP UK’s Industry Innovation award in 2020 as judged by a panel of independent industry experts (and not paid for).
Our ethos
As a team of bidding artisans our ethos is to make a sustainable contribution to your business growth. We see bidding as an art form. It’s about blending a mix of ingredients into something crafted, tailored, and amazing.
Our culture
We are a company with a social conscience. Kindness, empathy and sharing are fundamental characteristics that not only feel good, but they make a big impact on the people we work with.
Bidding standards
PAS 360
Want to consistently win more deals with less drama?
PAS 360:2023 is the new international standard that organisations can use to increase the quality of bid and proposal management activities and lower the risks of contract delivery.
Instigated and authored by BidCraft, we have unique insights into the standard and how organisations can implement and benefit from its guidance.
What are the benefits?
PAS 360’s recommendations can produce higher scoring proposals that increase the likelihood you’ll win more and higher value contracts, at the same time as building your brand and reputation.
It also contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goal 9 on industry, innovation and infrastructure.
- It can guide you on things like improving bid efficiency and productivity. On how to optimise resource allocation and identify new business areas to pursue.
- It can increase the speed you’re able to put proposals together at the same time as raising their quality.
- It can help you pursue more strategic opportunities and improve collaboration with partners and suppliers.
- It can lower the risk you’ll invest too many resources in a bid, only for it to go nowhere.
- And it can reduce your risk of securing a contract only to find it’s not deliverable.
Who can benefit from the standard?
The standard will benefit businesses regardless of type, location, size, maturity, or market. This can be SMEs who are scaling to grow, mergers and acquisitions looking to standardise processes, or established companies seeking assurance.
It also benefits those responsible for business acquisition, including the C-suite seeking a better return from its bidding investment, heads of bidding functions who want to implement bid excellence, and business development professionals who want improved proposal quality and win rates.
Our contributions
Supporting trusted climate projects
We care about doing the right thing, so we’re proud to work with Ecologi to help fund carbon offset projects and responsible tree planting around the world. We’re offsetting our carbon emissions and becoming a carbon positive workforce by growing the BidCraft company forest.
Every time someone becomes a Crafter, we enrol them into Ecologi, which funds climate solutions around the world. And whenever someone buys one of our APMP certification courses, we fund even more tree planting from our own money.
If you want to sign up, then use this link and Ecologi will plant trees as a thank you.
Supporting the armed forces community
We are proud signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant. In being so we recognise the value Serving Personnel, both regular and reservists, Veterans and military families contribute to our business and our country. Our commitment involves:
- Promoting the Armed Forces
- Supporting the employment of veterans, Service spouses and partners
- Supporting our employees who are members of the Reserve Forces or are volunteer leaders in military cadet organisation
- Supporting Armed Forces Day, Reserves Day, the Poppy Appeal Day and Remembrance activities
- Supporting Armed Forces charities
- Offering discounts to members of the Armed Forces community.
Badges
Our accreditations and memberships
FAQs
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Who do you partner with and why?
As a micro-sized business, we work with other amazing companies who excel at their craft. This lets us scale flexibly to deliver a broader range of specialist services. You can either engage them through us as one-team, or we can introduce you and step back, whichever gives the best outcomes.
Here they are in alphabetical order. Take a bow.
EllisJames
Help brands stand out and their people stand together. A tightly collaborative creative team, delivering strategically effective brand engagement solutions for complex organisations and SMEs. In fact, they designed this website.
Net Zero International
Passionate about enabling businesses to measure, analyse and improve their carbon emissions and join the UN Race to Zero.
transformacy
transformacy is a specialist management consultancy whose purpose is to help its clients create long-term stakeholder value through the implementation of business growth strategies that focus on the ethical, social, environmental, cultural, and economic dimensions of doing business.
Write Arm
Write Arm is a multilingual copywriting and bid writing agency that works cross-sector with everyone from scale ups to global corporations.
What’s it like being a Crafter?
If you’ve ever dreamed of being part of something that does things differently, then that’s what it feels like.
Crafters innovate, test themselves, learn new skills, and never settle.
It’s hard work and everyone puts a shift in, but the rewards are amazing. We treat people as professional adults who don’t need micro-managing. In fact, we want people with a diversity of experience and thought who keep us on our toes. Echo chambers are a dangerous thing.
We innovate because we’re curious and want to deliver better outcomes for our clients.
If something doesn’t exist, create it. If something doesn’t work, fix it. If something works, share it.
How do I join the crew?
We’re always looking for quality crew — whether that’s as a permanent Crafter or as a partner company.
We’re very approachable so get in touch and let’s talk.
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We’re always looking for like-minded Crafters.