Bid development
Strengthening proposals and tenders
Inspire2Enterprise works to strengthen and enhance applications on behalf of third sector organisations trading, or looking to trade, by way of social enterprise. With a wealth of bid writing experience and expertise, we help to develop, on a fee-based arrangement, bids and proposals for public service contracts.
Markets are currently being recreated and reshaped as public services become mutualised and spun out into new organisations. At Inspire2Enterprise, we’re committed to supporting organisations in their response to public sector tenders by providing insight into these new markets.
We can advise on the type of expertise required to meet service delivery requirements. And we help strengthen bid credentials by building supply chains to meet service needs, introducing social enterprises to other organisations to ensure all skills criteria are covered.
Inspire2Enterprise can also incorporate social impact measurement into bid development. Following the recent wave of public sector reform, commissioners and end-users alike are looking for social and economic value in service delivery. In this new era of ‘outcome-based government’, it is therefore critical that organisations are able to demonstrate social impact and value – particularly when bidding for public service contracts.
Making contracts more accessible
On the other side of the bid development process, Inspire2Enterpise works with service commissioners to make contracts more accessible to third sector organisations and social enterprises. We do this by encouraging references to ‘social value’ in tenders, and through programmes such as the £1 Billion University Challenge.
The £1 Billion University Challenge is pioneered by our academic partners at the University of Northampton. It aims to motivate the UK's Higher Education sector to allocate at least £1 billion of the £7 billion it spends each year on procurement to sourcing goods and services from social enterprises.