Strategic work-winning. Redefined.

With over 40 years of experience securing £30bn in contracts, our proven work winning, marketing and technical specialists offer a flexible, agile approach.

Positioning
Solutioning
Pitching
Delivering
Learning

Positioning

Bid library
Capture planning
Governance and process
Opportunity sourcing
PR, marketing and comms

Solutioning

Commercial strategy
Construction management planning
Consultant appointments
Risk assessments
Technical strategy

Pitching

Bid management
Bid writing
Cost planning / estimating
Design management
Infographics and DTP
Interview preparation
Planning and methodology
Reviews and audits

Delivering

Access control and guarding
Bespoke IT solutions
Geospatial surveys
Logistics solutions
Payroll
Project resourcing

Learning

Analysis and data capture
Continual improvement
Customer service feedback
Lessons learnt

    “Thank you for all your hard work on the ITT. Also for being flexible-working evenings and weekends to fit around reviews. This particular tender was very intense…. and the result outstanding.”

    National Framework Director
    Tier-one contractor

    “Just letting you know that we successfully submitted the tender this morning and I would like to say thank you, we couldn’t have done this without your support and hard work.”

    Head of Work Winning
    Tier-one contractor

    “Looks great, thanks for the quick turnaround.”

    Managing Director
    Leading specialist M&E contractor

    “It looks absolutely bloody fantastic.”

    Business Manager
    Leading global envelope contractor

    About us

    Our team brings unmatched expertise in market positioning and work-winning strategies.

    There is no shortage of work winning consultancies in the built environment market, so why choose Bridgehead?

    Our services

    Whether providing early positioning strategy, managing an entire bid or helping with specific pre-construction workstreams we enhance your team’s capabilities.

    Drawing on Munnelly Group’s expertise, we support everything from strategic proposals to innovative logistics and controlled access solutions. Our varied expertise, skills and personalities help us provide a full spectrum of services through the bid lifecycle that is, we believe, truly unique in the construction sector.

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    Positioning

    Capture planning and early positioning boost win chances by establishing you as the supplier of choice. A structured approach builds key relationships, uncovers client needs, and shapes the buying process. We provide tailored strategies to match client and stakeholder complexity.

    Bid library

    Exceptional bid libraries are crucial as AI helps competitors create more polished responses. The edge comes from organised, compelling collateral. We help you build a robust bid library that equips your team to adapt content, ensuring proposals are differentiating and persuasive.

    Capture planning

    An effective capture plan is vital for strategic bids, developed well before the ITT arrives. It helps you position yourself as the preferred partner. We help refine your approach, challenge assumptions, identify decision-makers, and build relationships to guide informed decisions throughout the bid lifecycle.

    Governance and process

    Securing profitable projects on favourable terms is key to sustainable growth. We’ll help you develop a tailored governance process, seamlessly integrated into your operations, ensuring clear decision-making with approvals aligned to authority and contractual boundaries. PAS 360 best practices support an efficient, cost-effective approach to prioritising opportunities.

    Opportunity sourcing

    Finding the right opportunities is key to growth at any stage. Our sourcing and portal management service streamlines lead generation across platforms like Constructionline, Builders Profile, and Contracts Finder. We set up filters, alerts, and checks to match projects with your capabilities and reach, while identifying frameworks for a steady pipeline. We also assist with prequalification, ensuring you’re well-positioned for success in every pursuit.

    Public relations, marketing and communications

    Reputation, awareness, perception and branding are crucial to your positioning. Our team of strategists, brand specialists, marketers, and designers work together to craft messaging that resonates and drives growth. We offer innovative solutions in branding, campaigns, social media, web design, and PR to make your brand stand out. With data-driven insights and clear strategies, we align with your goals for measurable success.

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    Solutioning

    A strong commercial strategy is vital for securing projects that align with your goals and deliver long-term value. This involves understanding client needs, financial objectives, risk appetite, and capabilities. Our strategist develops an approach that balances competitive pricing with value-added offerings, ensuring profitability without compromising quality. We evaluate contract terms, market trends, and other factors to position your bid for success with a sustainable margin.

    Commercial strategy

    A strong commercial strategy is vital for securing projects that align with your goals and deliver long-term value. This involves understanding client needs, financial objectives, risk appetite,
    and capabilities.

    Our strategist develops an approach that balances competitive pricing with value-added offerings, ensuring profitability without compromising quality. We evaluate contract terms, market
    trends, and other factors to position your bid for success with a sustainable margin.

    Consultant appointments

    Securing the right consultants on the right terms is crucial for successful design and build projects. We help you select expertise aligned with your project’s needs and goals.

    From scoping to negotiating terms and carrying out hackathons, we ensure consultant appointments add value, mitigate risks, and support your team, strengthening your proposal to meet
    client expectations and operational objectives.

    Risk assessments

    Comprehensive risk assessments are essential for identifying challenges and mitigating uncertainties. We evaluate financial, operational, legal, reputational, and safety risks, considering external factors like market volatility and internal ones like resource availability.

    By addressing risks proactively, we strengthen bid credibility, minimise impacts, and support informed decisions.

    Supply chain alignment

    Securing supply chain alignment before a bid lands is crucial to positioning your proposal as reliable and well-prepared. We optimise work packaging and engage the right partners from your approved lists, ensuring early commitment to your project goals.

    With our support, your supply chain focuses on you, not your competitors, demonstrating your strategic vision and solid partnerships for a competitive, credible bid.

    Technical strategy

    A strong technical strategy is crucial for a winning bid, and we help you develop one that aligns with client goals and highlights your strengths. Through design and compliance reviews, we ensure regulatory standards while incorporating buildability and value engineering.

    Our assessment refines technical elements to meet client expectations for performance and sustainability, positioning you as the ideal partner with practical, value-driven solutions.

    Construction management planning

    A well-structured construction management plan is key to project success. We develop plans that optimise logistics with time slices and swept path analysis, ensuring clear timelines, resource allocation, and risk management.

    By refining workflows and enhancing coordination, we minimise delays and ensure compliance and safety. This plan demonstrates your ability to manage complex projects, meeting client expectations for quality, budget, and timely delivery.

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    Pitching

    Risk assessments identify challenges and mitigate uncertainties. We evaluate financial, operational, legal, reputational, and safety risks, factoring in market volatility and resource availability. Proactively addressing risks strengthens bid credibility, minimises impacts, and supports informed decisions.

    Bid management

    We support you throughout the bidding process, from strategy and win themes to compliance, proofreading, and submission. Our transparent approach ensures a well-structured bid that highlights your value while aligning with internal governance. With clear communication and efficient administration, we seamlessly integrate with your team, on-site or remotely, and can use your company email when needed.

    Bid writing

    Our bid writers create innovative proposals that meet customer requirements and excel in qualitative assessments. We collaborate with your team to improve proposals, showcasing your solution’s value to stay ahead of the competition. From content creation to compelling framework responses, we drive high-scoring submissions that set you apart, helping you work smarter and win more.

    Cost planning

    Our estimating and cost planning associates provide cost estimates and budgets aligned with market conditions and project needs. Working with you throughout the bid lifecycle, we manage costs, identify value engineering opportunities, and mitigate risks. From feasibility studies to tender submissions, we ensure your proposals are competitive and realistic.

    Design management

    Our bid design management associates handle consultant appointments, ensuring aligned deliverables, schedules, and scopes. We manage selection, scheduling, and quality execution while conducting design reviews for compliance, buildability, and risks. Supporting your team or managing complex appointments, we deliver coordinated, risk-mitigated design programmes that minimise
    delays and cost.

    Infographics and DTP

    Our infographics and desktop publishing service transforms complex bid content into engaging visuals. We craft impactful graphics that highlight key data and win themes, ensuring your proposal stands out. From refining documents to interactive presentations, we ensure consistency with brand guidelines, enhancing visual appeal and increasing your bid’s success chances.

    Interview preparation

    We help clients prepare for interviews with mock panels and coaching, ensuring confident presentations. Our service simulates real scenarios, providing feedback on performance, messaging, and presentation. We focus on handling tough questions, highlighting strengths, and aligning responses with client priorities.

    Planning and methodology

    We provide construction planning support through logistics, planning, and project management specialists. Working with your team, we develop detailed plans, timelines, and methodologies for efficient delivery. Combining logistics and construction expertise, we create realistic schedules, identify key milestones, and mitigate risks, ensuring a clear and achievable execution plan.

    Reviews and audits

    Our critical friend audits and reviews offer an objective perspective to enhance your bid’s effectiveness. We assess content, structure, and strategy against client qualitative scoring regime, providing constructive feedback and mock score. This collaborative approach ensures your proposal is compelling and tailored to maximise scoring potential.

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    Delivery

    Ensuring a smooth transition from bid to delivery is key to a successful contract launch. We leverage our sister companies to support clients through every phase, ensuring efficient handover. From workforce resourcing and payroll to logistics coordination and access control, we tap into the Munnelly Group’s services to help enhance your value proposition.

    Access control and guarding

    Guardior offers comprehensive UK security solutions, including manned guarding, tech-based security, remote monitoring, risk assessments, emergency response, training, cybersecurity, and integrated services.

    MacRail specialises in site access systems for rail projects, providing labour resources, track maintenance, project management, safety, training, consultancy, emergency response and equipment hire.

    Bespoke IT solutions

    Weston Analytics offers advanced software solutions tailored to the built environment, enhancing efficiency, safety, and compliance through innovative technology.

    Geospatial surveys

    Severn Partnership, Chartered Land Surveyors, provides land and topographical surveys, measured building surveys, 3D laser scanning, BIM, rail surveys, utility surveys, drone surveys, monitoring, and geospatial data management.

    Logistics solutions

    The Munnelly Group name is synonymous with comprehensive site logistics, covering labour, waste management, traffic management, health & safety compliance, and more, all to ensure streamlined operations with complete regulatory compliance.

    Payroll

    Bishopsgate offers the UK market specialist outsourced payroll administration, employment and contractor support services. We can pay anyone you engage within your business removing the administrative and compliance headaches you may currently endure.

    Project resourcing

    City Calling connects clients with skilled construction industry staff through tailored recruitment solutions. Services include temporary and permanent placements, candidate screening, job matching, industry expertise, and CV and interview support.

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    Learning

    Continuous improvement and lessons learnt drive ongoing efficiency and effectiveness in every project. By analysing past successes and challenges, organisations can adapt, refine, and optimise their processes to deliver better outcomes with each new contract.

    Continual improvement

    This commitment to learning ensures resilient, proactive approaches that boost client satisfaction, minimise risks, and position the organisation as a leader in quality and innovation.

    Most companies capture data, but too rarely use it to inform decision making. We work with clients to understand meaningful metrics that can drive efficiency, from marketing and social media impact, through bid / no bid decision making to post completion satisfaction.

    Analysis and data capture

    We provide comprehensive analysis and data capture services to elevate your bid proposal process. We focus in helping you gather crucial market insights, competitor data, identify client requirements to inform and refine your bid strategy. Our team leverages advanced tools and techniques to capture relevant information, analyse trends, and identify emerging opportunities, ensuring your bids are both competitive and aligned with client expectations. By transforming raw data into actionable intelligence, we help you select the right opportunities and then craft targeted proposals that stand out. Whether you need market analysis, competitor benchmarking, or in-depth data collection, our services support your goal of securing more contracts and achieving bid success.

    Customer service feedback

    The most informative feedback you are likely to get is from clients who have awarded you contracts. This is when the feedback will generally be at its most honest, as the client has nothing to hide. By asking the right probing questions you will get to find out why they selected your bid won, and generally get honesty about where your bid was weaker than others, and what elements made it compelling. Win or lose, we will help you develop a focussed process, that avoids you becoming defensive in a feedback session. We offer an independent customer service feedback analysis to enhance your proposals and strategies. We gather valuable insights from client feedback, reviews, and surveys to assess satisfaction, identify areas for improvement, and address client concerns. Our team will analyse this data to help refine your approach, ensuring that your bids are aligned with client expectations and demonstrate a commitment to quality service. By leveraging customer insights, we help you tailor your proposals to address specific needs, improve client relationships, and increase your chances of success in winning contracts.

    Lessons learnt

    We offer a structured lessons learnt process to help refine your bid decisions and strategies. We capture and analyse feedback and outcomes from past projects, identifying key successes and areas for improvement. Our team evaluates both the strengths and challenges of previous bids, clients, sectors and geographies to provide actionable insights that inform future bid / no bid decisions and bid strategies. By applying lessons learned, we help you avoid common pitfalls, optimise your approach, and enhance your bid submissions for better outcomes. With our expertise, you can leverage past experiences to continuously improve your bidding process, increase efficiency, and boost your chances of winning contracts. Let us guide you in turning lessons into lasting success.

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