Three bids in one week. Three wins.
Three tenders, one week-long window
The short version. Three tender submissions landed in the same week-long window, needing around 19,000 words of bid narrative between them. One plugin installation and one house-style instruction covered all three. Every bid was still second-drafted by a person and signed off at director level. The week saved two to three days of production time per bid, worth £2,400 to £3,600 in bid writing fees against a £349 one-off licence. Success letters arrived for all three.
A week with three deadlines in it
Three opportunities, all worth having, all closing inside the same week. Any bid team knows what that week normally looks like. Something gets the attention it deserves, something gets written at midnight, and something quietly does not go in at all.
The Training Brokers put all three in.
What the three actually asked for
Not one long document split three ways. Three separate submissions, each with its own buyer, its own format and its own idea of what a good answer looks like.
Sunderland City Council
A place on the Adult Skills Fund Dynamic Purchasing System. Several documents, 5,000 words of method statements, and a 500-word social value response.
Serco
An expression of interest form running to nearly 2,000 words, covering track record, methodology, regional presence and stakeholder relationships.
South Tyneside Council
A Skills Dynamic Purchasing System competition: 11,000 words of bid narrative across two documents, 750 words on management and staffing, and three tables covering company profile, track record and qualification offer.
Roughly 19,000 words of narrative that a human being had to be answerable for, plus the tables and the supporting forms, inside one week.
Installed once, used three times
The Bidwin Core Plugin installation took minutes, and the same installation then served all three bids. A one-time house-style instruction taught it how The Training Brokers write.
From there it was three projects in Claude Pro, running the same setup, vet, draft and quality assurance workflow on each. The second bid did not start from scratch, and neither did the third. That is most of where the week went from impossible to ordinary.
A person still wrote the bid
Every one of the three went through a second drafting by a person, then a careful proofread and sign-off at director level before it was submitted.
That step is not a formality bolted on at the end. It is the reason the three bids read as The Training Brokers rather than as three variations on a theme, and it is the reason a director was willing to put their name to each of them.
What the week saved
Two to three days of production time per bid. In bid writing fees that is £800 to £1,200 for each one, so £2,400 to £3,600 across the three.
In one week. Against a Bidwin Core licence of £349, paid once.
The licence does not run out at the end of that week. The Training Brokers can carry on producing as many bids as they like at no further cost for at least a year, unless they choose to add services on top. The £349 bought the week. The year after it comes free with the receipt.
Three success letters
Over the following three to four weeks, the results came back. Sunderland, Serco, South Tyneside. All three successful.
Speed was never the point on its own. Three bids submitted badly in a week is not a result. Three bids submitted well, each one carrying evidence the directors could stand behind, and all three coming back successful, is a different thing entirely.
What this is, and what it is not
One week, at one organisation. The Training Brokers' own track record won these contracts. Bidwin's job was to get that track record onto the page, in their voice, three times over, inside the time there was.
We are not publishing contract values, evaluation scores or who else bid, because those are not ours to publish. The savings figures are the client's own assessment of the bid writing time the week would otherwise have taken. Three wins in a week is a result, not a rate.
At a glance
| Client | The Training Brokers |
|---|---|
| Buyers | Sunderland City Council, Serco, South Tyneside Council |
| Submissions | 3, inside one week-long window |
| Sunderland City Council | Adult Skills Fund DPS place: 5,000 words of method statements, 500-word social value response, plus supporting documents |
| Serco | Expression of interest: nearly 2,000 words on track record, methodology, regional presence and stakeholder relationships |
| South Tyneside Council | Skills DPS competition: 11,000 words across two documents, 750 words on management and staffing, three tables |
| Bid narrative | Around 19,000 words in total |
| Set-up | Plugin installed in minutes, one house-style instruction, three Claude Pro projects |
| Human input | Second draft by a person, then director-level proofread and sign-off on each bid |
| Time saved | 2 to 3 days per bid |
| Cost saved | £800 to £1,200 per bid; £2,400 to £3,600 across the week |
| Licence cost | £349, one-off, with unlimited bids for at least a year |
| Outcome | Success letters for all three, within three to four weeks |
Every figure in this case study comes from The Training Brokers' written account of the week, and it is published with their agreement to be named. Time and cost savings are the client's own assessment of the bid writing effort the three submissions would otherwise have required. Contract values, evaluation scores and competitor numbers are not published. Last reviewed 16 August 2026.
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