JGP Consultancy Services Limited

JGP Consultancy Services Limited JGP Consultancy is a market leader in helping companies to grow by finding and winning tenders. They inspire trust, deliver impact and drive our growth.

If you are looking to improve your win rate and recruit an industry-leading bid team, we have the expertise, connections, consultants, opportunities and solutions. Our team has over 70 years of experience and there is no replacement for experience in this specialised profession. Someone who has completed and overseen thousands of submissions will save you time and money and will vastly improve you

r success rate. We specialise in:

• Bid writing
• Bid management
• Bid review
• Tender finder
• Funding identification
• Strategic advice

Our people define who we are as an organisation. They inform both our long-term strategy as a firm and the way we serve our clients on a daily basis. We put aside one day a year to reflect as a group on what our values mean to both our work and our lives. Our values:

• Excellence
• Integrity
• Quality
• Teamwork

There is a decision that comes before any of the writing, and most first-time bidders skip straight past it.Should you b...
08/09/2026

There is a decision that comes before any of the writing, and most first-time bidders skip straight past it.

Should you bid for this one at all?

It sounds obvious. In practice the pull is strong the other way: the contract looks big, the deadline is three weeks out, and it feels like something is better than nothing. So the effort goes in, and the question of whether this is genuinely a fit never gets asked properly.

A useful version of that conversation takes about an hour. Have you delivered something close to this before, and can you evidence it. Can you meet every condition of participation without stretching the truth. Do you have the capacity to deliver it if you won. And is there a reason a buyer would choose you over whoever holds it now.

Four honest answers, and you often save yourself three weeks.

We have been doing this since 2015, and it is striking how much has changed on the surface.New regulations, a new Act, n...
03/09/2026

We have been doing this since 2015, and it is striking how much has changed on the surface.

New regulations, a new Act, new portals, a central platform, different notices, different terminology. If you had stepped away in 2015 and come back this year, most of the furniture would have moved.

What wins has not moved at all. A clear answer to the question that was asked, with evidence attached, from a business that understands what the buyer is trying to achieve. That was true 11 years ago and it is true now.

Which is quite reassuring, really. The paperwork keeps changing. The thing you actually have to be good at does not.

A belief that keeps businesses out of the market: that the winner is decided before the tender is even published.It is a...
01/09/2026

A belief that keeps businesses out of the market: that the winner is decided before the tender is even published.

It is an understandable suspicion, especially after a loss that felt one-sided. It is also not how the process works. Contracting authorities have to publish the criteria they will assess against, score submissions against those criteria, and then tell each bidder how they scored. That last part is a legal duty, not a courtesy.

Which gives you a straightforward test. Ask for your assessment summary and read it. If the process were a formality, the reasoning would not survive contact with a careful reader, and there are routes to challenge it if it does not.

In our experience the summaries almost always tell a duller story than the suspicion did. A question answered thinly. Evidence that was asserted rather than shown. A section that ran out of steam.

A stage that catches people out. You have been told you have won, and you still cannot start.After a contracting authori...
27/08/2026

A stage that catches people out. You have been told you have won, and you still cannot start.

After a contracting authority makes an award decision on most larger contracts, there is a standstill period before the contract can be signed. It exists so unsuccessful bidders have a window to ask questions or challenge the decision, which is a protection for everyone bidding, including you.

For a small supplier the practical issue is planning. If you have promised staff a start date, ordered stock, or turned other work away on the strength of the news, that gap can hurt.

So when you read the tender timetable, look for the standstill dates as well as the submission deadline, and build your plan around the signing date rather than the decision.

Grants and tenders get talked about as though you have to choose one.They do different jobs. A grant tends to fund a cap...
25/08/2026

Grants and tenders get talked about as though you have to choose one.

They do different jobs. A grant tends to fund a capability: equipment, training, a new service you want to develop, something you could not otherwise justify. A contract pays you to deliver work that a public body needs doing.

Used in sequence they support each other rather than compete. Grant funding builds the thing. A contract then puts it to work and pays for it properly. Plenty of the businesses we speak to are eligible for both and only looking at one.

Worth asking which stage you are actually at, before deciding where to spend your effort.

Something we hear a lot: 'there is no point bidding, they will just renew with whoever has it now.'Incumbents lose contr...
20/08/2026

Something we hear a lot: 'there is no point bidding, they will just renew with whoever has it now.'

Incumbents lose contracts, and more often than people assume. Sometimes the service has drifted and the buyer knows it. Sometimes the requirement has changed and the existing supplier has not changed with it. Sometimes a long-standing provider simply writes a tired bid, because they assume the outcome is settled.

None of that makes an incumbent easy to beat. They have the relationships and a track record on the contract itself, and that counts for a great deal. What it means is that the competition is real, and worth entering when the fit is genuinely good.

The bidders who displace an incumbent tend to do one thing well. They read what the buyer has said about how the service is performing now, and they answer that, rather than describing themselves in general terms.

Something a lot of businesses never use: the clarification window.While a tender is open, you can ask the contracting au...
18/08/2026

Something a lot of businesses never use: the clarification window.

While a tender is open, you can ask the contracting authority questions about it. Not vague ones about whether you should bid, but specific ones. What does this requirement actually mean. Is this certificate needed at bid stage or before the contract starts. Which document should this evidence go in.

Two things are worth knowing. The answers are usually published to every bidder, so nobody gains an unfair advantage and nobody loses one by asking. And the window closes well before the deadline, so a question you think of on the last afternoon is a question you cannot ask.

It is one of the simplest habits to build, and it removes a surprising amount of guesswork. Read the tender properly early, write down what is unclear, and ask while you still can.

Losing a bid is disappointing. Throwing away what it could teach you is worse.Public sector buyers will usually tell you...
13/08/2026

Losing a bid is disappointing. Throwing away what it could teach you is worse.

Public sector buyers will usually tell you how you scored, and often where you fell short. That feedback is genuinely useful, and it is one of the real advantages of selling to the public sector rather than the private market, where you often hear nothing at all.

We read those debriefs with our clients, because the second bid is nearly always stronger when someone looks honestly at what the evaluator actually said. Patterns show up quickly: the question that keeps scoring low, the evidence that never quite lands.

A loss you learn from is market research you have already paid for.

People often ask what actually happens when you start working with us, so here is the honest version.The first thing is ...
11/08/2026

People often ask what actually happens when you start working with us, so here is the honest version.

The first thing is a proper conversation, not a form. What do you deliver best, which contracts have been worth having, which ones drained you, what does a good month look like. Your account manager needs to understand the business before they can recognise a good opportunity for it.

Then the searching starts, and you get a shortlist built around that conversation, with a short note on why each opportunity is on it. If something is not right for you, we say so.

There are no portals for you to wade through and no alerts to triage. That is rather the point.

If you would like to know what that would look like for your business, we are always happy to have the conversation. You can find us at jgpconsultancy.co.uk

There is a limit to how many businesses one person can genuinely know, and we would rather respect it than pretend other...
06/08/2026

There is a limit to how many businesses one person can genuinely know, and we would rather respect it than pretend otherwise.

Every client at JGP Consultancy has a named account manager, and each of us takes on a capped number of clients. That is not a marketing position, it is arithmetic. Reading opportunities properly, understanding why a contract suits one business and not another, and knowing when to tell someone to sit this one out, all of it takes real time and attention.

An automated alert can be sent to thousands of people at once. A hand-picked shortlist cannot.

It is a slower way to grow, and it is the only way the service stays what we say it is.

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