Kittle Group has a unique and deep expertise of the immigration sector, having won over billions of pounds of work for clients across refugee resettlement, detention, housing, and transport.
Many of the immigration bids we prepare also cut across other services in which we have significant experience, for example: hard and soft FM (for the maintenance of housing or detention centres); logistics (for transport of asylum seeks and detainees); and IT infrastructure (for the design, development, implementation, and integration of case management systems).
Kittle Group assisted a client with a successful tender to the Home Office for the management, operation, and maintenance of the Gatwick Immigration Removal Centre for high and low risk detainees. Our support extended across both the Invitation to Tender, Negotiation, and Best and Final Offer (BAFO) stages and lasted some 6 months.
Our team of four writers, led by our Managing Director, worked closely with the client’s subject matter experts to understand the client’s solution and then prepare the bid responses. At the same time, we cross-referenced the information to ensure bid responses were aligned and consistent.
Throughout the negotiation and BAFO phases, our team reviewed the key negotiation outcomes taken and updated the response accordingly, looking for additional opportunities to highlight added value and win themes.
This was a successful project for the client and led to a contract win. Since then we have won Dungavel and Derwentside IRCs.
Kittle Group prepared three tenders to the Home Office for the provision of accommodation for asylum seekers across the Midlands, North East, and North West. It also included transport, welfare checks, and property maintenance.
When we joined the project, it was in distress, with the client struggling to articulate the solution in a way that would resonate with the Home Office. Our team, therefore, drew on their significant experience, working with the client’s subject matter experts to identify the information required, in particular, the added value and benefits they would bring. This was a significant project for us, requiring us to draft around 1 million words in just over 3 weeks.
Throughout the negotiation and BAFO phases, our team reviewed the key decisions taken and updated the responses accordingly. The outcome was a successful bid for the client and contract win across all three regions. Since then, we have also won two more IRCs.
Kittle Group prepared a tender to the Home Office for a United Nations’ refugee programme. Our support lasted 1 month and included helping the client to articulate their solution for reception arrangements, transport, and practical support over 12 months to adjust to life in the UK and integrate into local communities.
For this project, we provided a senior writer with significant experience of writing successful tenders to the Home Office, who worked with the client’s team, running workshops on different topics. These included project planning; welfare support; IT systems; and recruitment, training, and management of staff and volunteers.
We then took the information to map the refugee’s journey throughout their initial 12 months in the UK and how the client’s support facilitated a successful resettlement and integration. We then drafted the proposal for the Home Office.
The outcome was a successful bid for the client and a contract win.
