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bid tendering modelling

Whether you are a bidder responding to a complicated project tender, or are issuing a tender and need to evaluate potential suppliers' proposals, a Paragon model can provide the vital link between requirements, proposals and likely outcome.

A comparatively small investment at this stage can ensure that requirements are met, cost understood, contingencies planned for and can avoid contractual disputes later.

From the bidder's perspective a model can:


  • Be used as a planning tool to compare, optimise and prove design options

  • Help avoid over or under pricing bids

  • Help you understand fully what you are committing to

  • Prove to your customer that your proposal is robust, allows for contingencies and meets requirements

  • Demonstrate to the customer that your proposal is more thoroughly planned than those of your competitors

  • Allows the impact of late customer requirements changes to be evaluated


A model can resolve all these issues and make your bid stand out from the rest. A model used in a tendering process can then be re-used for similar tender responses or extended into a detailed operational model once the business is won.

From the perspective of the tender issuer, a model can be used to:

  • Be sure that plausible sounding proposals will actually deliver the required results - especially if the project is new or unique

  • Select the best proposal from several tender responses

  • Understand and quantify your financial risks and the sensitivities to possible eventualities to improve contingency planning

  • Improve and re-negotiate the proposals that are received.

case studies

Transport

A major public transport provider

To provide them with information for bidding against new tenders and for re-planning every year once it knows which tender/routes have been won

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Ibstock

One of the UK’s largest brick manufacturers

A need to plan for maximum throughput in times of high demand (and prices) and greatest resilience to downturns and price erosion

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people say

"Your work has been invaluable in allowing us to understand the potential bottlenecks in the plant … we have been able to gain significant confidence in the proposed design … the service provided to me has been first class"

Blair Marriot, Project Manager, United Utilities