The BidScript Journal
Bid Management - Resources, Guides & Best Practices
Everything you need to write, manage, and win more bids
Strategies on proposal automation, knowledge management, and winning more government contracts.
Budget 2026 for Work-Winning Teams
The Autumn Budget creates new opportunities for public sector suppliers through challenge-led procurement and a stronger focus on UK-based value. Defence, social housing, AI and regional infrastructure are key growth areas.
Winning the Quality Quest: A Bid Team's Guide to the PPN 026 Social Value Model
PPN 026 changes the rules of social value. From January 2027, winning public contracts is no longer about making bigger promises - it’s about proving you can deliver.
The Social Value Model: How to Answer Social Value Questions in Tenders
How the Social Value Model works under PPN 002 and the new PPN 026, what the 10% and 20% minimum weightings mean for your bid and how to write answers that score.
G-Cloud 15: What Suppliers Need to Know Now It's Live
G-Cloud 15 is live. What changed from G-Cloud 14, how the lots work, how buyers award call-offs and when suppliers who missed the first window can join.
NHS Tenders: A Supplier's Guide to How NHS Procurement Works
A plain guide to NHS tenders for suppliers: how NHS procurement works, where tenders are published and how the Procurement Act and the Provider Selection Regime apply.
Bid Writing: What It Is and How to Do It Well
Bid writing explained for UK teams: what it involves, how to plan a response, how buyers score answers and the habits that turn decent bids into winning ones.
How AI Bid Writing Software Works (And What to Watch Out For)
Buyers can now ask how you used AI in your tender. How AI bid writing tools actually work, where they help, and the risks to plan for.
Tender Evaluation Criteria Explained: MEAT, MAT & Scoring Matrices
Every mark an evaluator awards comes from the published criteria. How MAT, weightings and scoring matrices really work, and how to write answers that score.
How to Speed Up Your RFP Responses Without Cutting Corners
Most of the time on an RFP goes on searching, chasing and rework rather than writing. Seven practical ways to win it back without cutting corners.
Public Sector Procurement Process UK: A Guide for Suppliers
Most suppliers start watching at the UK4 tender notice. The strongest bid teams start at the UK1/UK2/UK3 pipeline stages. How UK public sector procurement now works, stage by stage.