Consultancy

Our client, a London consulting house, was bidding to the Government’s Restoration and Renewal Programme. The bid aimed to develop and implement a Requirements Management Plan, that includes three projects, the restoration of the Palace of Westminster, the creation of a decant chamber for the House of Lords, and the decant of Heritage Collections and the Commons Library Collections, while the Palace works are undertaken.

We assigned two writers to the tender, who were responsible for leading and writing the bid. We worked closely with the client’s subject matter experts to ensure there was a common understanding of the Buyer’s specification and identify the most appropriate evidence. We were able to demonstrate the client’s significant experience, and offer detailed CVs of consultants of the right calibre, providing the Buyer with the best value offer.

This resulted in a win for our client of this prestigious contract.

We supported a client with the preparation of a tender to the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) to undertake an independent assessment of Network Rail’s capability and capacity to deliver a successful procurement strategy.

Having spent time assessing the ORR’s and Network Rail’s specification, we assigned two writers to work with the client to understand their solution and where they could evidence past relevant experience that demonstrated their capability and capacity. This project had tight deadlines so we agreed on a plan in advance that set clear milestones for our team and our client.

This was a successful project and resulted in the client being awarded the contract by the ORR.

“Kittle Group’s knowledge of procurement rules and public sector procurement is second to none. They rapidly understand the requirements of each bid and hold us to account to ensure each question is answered with the aim of scoring 100%. They are able to distil complex information into very clear and well-considered messages. Kittle’s ability to understand our business and their unerring attention to detail has made them invaluable to us.” – Nichols Group (Strategic Consultancy), COO.

We were commissioned by a consortium of three consultancies to support a tender to DEFRA to define long- and short-lists of potential targets against which the new OEP could measure DEFRA’s performance against a new climate change strategy. This new body would then report directly to Parliament with progress.

For the tender, our writer worked with all three consortium members to understand their solution to meet DEFRA’s requirements and offer the best value. Having drafted the responses, all three consortium members undertook reviews, and our writer then assessed the compatibility between each reviewer’s comments to agree on a final position for the bid.

This was a successful project for the consortium.

We were commissioned by a consortium of two consultancies to assist with the preparation of a tender to the Ministry of Defence to find and deliver the Army £2bn of savings over 10 years. We assigned two senior writers to this project who worked alongside the clients’ teams to draft and review responses in parallel to the solution being refined. Topics covered in the bid included an overall methodology for identifying, assessing and delivering the savings, a detailed approach to two complex scenarios, details of the delivery team, and how the clients would use the contract to deliver social value.

This was a successful project for the clients, resulting in a 5-year contract valued at £20m.

Our client formed a consortium with two companies who specialise in global consultancy and construction, to submit a PQQ for the development and construction of five Strategic Resource Options (SROs) for Water Resource Management.

This was a highly technical bid, drawing on the experience of multiple consultants across the consortium. Rigorous bid management and planning were imperative to keep all stakeholders up to date and the bid on track. Our writer integrated with the team, presented in daily stand-ups, implemented cross-partnership feedback and hosted storyboard sessions with technical SMEs from each organisation.

The responses we drafted scored 80% and 100% respectively, the highest scoring responses in the PQQ, and helped the consortium ultimately win the contract.

Management Consultancy Framework three (MCF3) is a major framework for the provision of management consultancy across specialist categories including business strategy, change management, transport, environmental, and project and programme delivery. The framework lasts five years and serves as a major work stream for consultancies working with the UK public sector, with an estimated spend of £3.9bn across the framework.

A team of Kittle writers prepared the bid for our client, with Alan Kittle (our founder) providing advice and guidance to the client’s bid director and technical leads across the different categories on strategy, and developing high-scoring responses. All drafts prepared were scrutinised against the evaluation criteria and CQ responses, to place our client in the best position to receive top marks from evaluators. We also led the bid through our client’s internal governance procedures and assisted with the final submission.

The client was successful across the multiple lots we bid for and is now part of the framework.

A consortium of a global Big 4 and two smaller specialist consultancies was bidding to the Department for Transport (DfT) to be named as the project representative for HS2. Responses for the ITT stage were divided between the consortium partners, and Kittle Group acted on behalf of one of the specialist consultancies to draft their significant contributions.

The contract required our client to provide expert advice to assure that the HS2 project was meeting the DfT’s requirements; delivered in a value-for-money way; and realised the intended benefits.

Our writer provided an end-to-end delivery of all of our client’s responses – they organised storyboard interviews with the client’s SMEs, planned each answer, and drafted each response to tight internal deadlines. They also supported the other partners’ responses in an editorial role to close out the bid.

We are pleased to say that our client’s consortium was successful in securing this £50million contract.