The Bid Team offers a range of services to help clients win work:Team Augmentation. Our consultants are specialist bidders. This is what they do for the day job and hence they have experience of all sorts of tenders to many different organisations. They know what strategies to adopt for the procurement regime they are working in. Similarly, our bid writers are experienced in writing answers that address the question and the evaluation criteria. We offer a team augmentation, or consultancy, service where you can choose to have a senior bid manager at the start of a bid to set the bid strategy on a winning trajectory or you could ask them to review the bid, mid tender, to assess against the evaluation criteria. Similarly, our writers could be asked to help with storyboarding or writing certain difficult, or high scoring, answers. Bid Process Review. Organisation grow in different directions and this can lead to different ways of doing the same thing. Bidding is an area that there is no clear right way of doing things and you find in all organisations, pockets of really good practice and some that can be improved. The Bid Team has developed an easy to use bid process with “How to Guides”, easy to complete/modify forms and gateway reviews. This process is tailored to an organisation’s requirements and is branded and localised to reflect the company’s culture and ways of working. Working to this bid blueprint means that all people work to the same process and it frees up senior managers to contribute to the bid through reviews rather than writing.Bid Central. By demand from our clients we teamed up with a technical company to develop an intranet-based solution for bid management and the all-important information management that is needed to produce winning bids. Bid Central contains all the corporate information required to produce bids such as CVs, case studies, project sheets, previous bids, previous scored sections of bids, and corporate information.

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Bid management of all major bids.

Reporting to the Board members, I was a senior executive manager responsible for the development of all strategic opportunities and projects. I had resource responsibilities to ensure that of the 150 staff the right staff member were allocated to the right opportunity and bid management was undertaken correctly. Bid management ranged from small bids of £100K + to larger £100M bids.

I fulfilled two major roles while at Anite the former was head of Earth Observation and the latter as one of two directors responsible for the Anite Benelux operations. The Luxembourg and Brussels operations were part of the Anite Government Systems division. Responsible for the management and development of the IT programmes world wide. I prepared the proposals and designed the implementation strategy for a number of tenders to the European Commission. The proposal presentation and content were developed and refined such that a consistent approach was adopted and a more corporate image presented.

Project Manager, senior radar scientist, and chief architect to a joint European and Canadian research programme. Responsible for all aspects of project management and development from cost control through to the implementation of the company quality procedures. Developed the concept of an open processing architecture in which a series of processing elements could be incorporated. In particular developed the first European advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar processor. Managed the team across three countries (Canada, Italy and the UK) resulting in a successful project development. Represented the European Commission at several international conferences and seminars presenting developments which increased the project profile and generated international interest.

Integration manager for the United Kingdom Processing and Archiving Facility (UK-PAF) a ground based facility run by the UK on behalf of the European Space Agency (ESA). Responsible for the complete integration of the processing chains and algorithms into the working environment. The role involved collaboration with industrial and scientific contractors for the development of new and improved software. I was responsible for the successful integration of software modules, prior to satellite launch despite some inherited difficulties with some sub-contractors and the integration and processing ahead of other ESA ground developments. Elements of the UK-PAF were the first to be tested and verified.

Responsible for the design and implementation of modules in a software architecture called AIDA. AIDA was a framework for the development of Artificial Intelligence techniques for Digital Signal processing in an Object Orientated environment working within a blackboard architecture. The project was undertaken as part of a joint collaboration between the UK and USA governments as part of the SDI programme (Star Wars). Mark developed modules for deterministic processing, causal modelling and heuristic reasoning for the interpretation of radar signal returns. These modules are still being used today.