Bid Coordinator

Key Responsibilities

• Champion the bidding practice as outlined in BMT’s “Work Winning Handbook” in line with the best industry practice.
• Monitor procurement portals/avenues for project opportunities and disseminate bid alerts accordingly.
• Act as a point of contact for bids and Frameworks for which they are involved, including distributing any customer updates or other relevant information to the relevant teams involved in bidding.
• Deconstruct bid briefing documents and co-ordinate early Pursue/No Pursue and Go/No Go decision making. Once agreed to proceed, develop and implement clear Bid Plans
• Plan, coordinate and program manage the entire bid process for responding to bids, EOIs and Frameworks, liaising with the required individuals and other stakeholders to resource bid responses.
• Facilitate the development and completion of bids, EOIs and Framework responses by gathering technical, commercial and financial information from a wide range of sources across the business, in a structured manner.
• Coordinate inputs from a variety of stakeholders, typically involving contributions from sales, business development, marketing/graphics, finance, commercial, programmes and capabilities, including a wider supply chain of external input as required.
• Ensure compliance with corporate processes, procedures, guidance, and record approvals accordingly; this also includes ensuring that the correct technical, commercial and financial reviews are completed and documented.
• Review bid, EOI and Framework deliverables, providing a pre-submission control point to ensure quality of the final outputs and consistency in scope and language with the customer requirements.
• Close monitoring of the bid delivery process against the agreed timescales and requirements, including any changing requirements.
• Facilitate bid workshops where required, including organising meetings, providing briefings and ensuring that everyone involved in bidding understands the customer requirements and processes associated with bid planning, bid preparation and is able to make a meaningful contribution to the preparation of winning bids.
• Contribute to developing messaging, materials and bidding collateral for each bid, EOI and Framework submission based on customer requirements.
• Ensure that all bid filing (electronic and hard copy) follows a consistent and clear format.