30+ years · £5bn+ of tenders won since 2017

We help contractors win major infrastructure bids.

Bid management, technical writing and estimating / assurance services for construction, infrastructure and rail.

30+

years of experience across engineering, bidding and consultancy

£5bn+

of tenders our team has worked on and our clients have won since 2017

£1.5bn

Network Rail business case taken to approval

01 · What we do

Services

Bid management

Participating in and running bid activities from prequalification through to submission: bid plans, governance, reviews and deadlines, including frameworks, joint ventures; working under accelerated timescales.

Technical writing

Storyboarding, win themes and high-scoring answers written to the ITT scoring criteria, drawing out subject matter experts (SME) know-how.

Estimating

Estimating, tender evaluation and cost assurance, from contractor-side pricing to client-side business case support. Creation of estimating tools in Excel/Power BI, working across the SME landscape, engaging and bringing together the key stakeholders.

Social value & sustainability

Workforce skills, community engagement, social value and carbon management focused answers, researched and evidenced so they score well.

Bid coordination & production

Preparing, checking and formatting submissions so they go out complete, compliant and on time.

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Aerial view of the Lower Thames Crossing tunnel portal
Photo © Murphy

02 · Featured case study

Lower Thames Crossing

J. Murphy & Sons · Highways · Joint venture tender

Working inside the Bouygues-Murphy bid team, we produced technical content across the tender (tunnels and shafts): storyboarding answers, developing win themes and writing to the ITT scoring criteria.

  • £337m Murphy share of the contract
  • Twin 2.6-mile bored tunnels, the UK’s longest road tunnel
  • Won in December 2023 and now being delivered

Read the case study → · All case studies

03 · Where we work

Where we work

  • Construction & infrastructure: power, tunnelling, water, highways
  • Rail: signalling, telecoms, digital railway

04 · Track record

Winning bids we have supported

  • National Grid · London Power Tunnels 2 · £600m
  • National Grid · Great Grid Partnership · £2bn
  • National Highways · Lower Thames Crossing · £337m
  • Network Rail · CP7 · £200m
  • United Utilities · AMP8 · £500m
  • SSEN · NOA7 · £1.2bn
  • SSEN · HVDC · £600m

Clients we’ve worked with

J. Murphy & Sons
HOCHTIEF (UK) Construction
Currie & Brown
ENGIE
Tripod Crest
Network Rail
National Grid
SSEN
National Highways
United Utilities

Let’s talk

Tell us what you’re bidding for and we’ll get back to you. One point of contact who leads your bid, backed by a team producing the content.