The Right People, Right Time, Right Place

With more and more customers engaging their procurement team and issuing formal tenders, IKON radically required expansion of the existing tender team, offering professional skills, writing persuasive, compelling documents with articulate flair and innovation. With time of the essence and due to a reorganisation, IKON required four new recruits to take the Bid Team forward under the guidance and direction of Laurence Greenhow, and sponsorship from the UK IKON Board.

Laurence Greenhow (Commercial Business / Bid Team Manager) of IKON said:

Reviewing the marketplace, Bid Solutions was quickly identified as a trustworthy professional company with a clear understanding of our requirements and after submitting CVs to match the skill sets of Bid Managers, all within salary budgets; interviews were scheduled and the results proved successful. The professional Bid Solutions team worked tirelessly outside of normal hours providing CVs and scheduling interviews to fulfil the requirements. The result has provided an outstanding professional team with skill sets and commitment, meeting and exceeding expectations, and we would recommend and use Bid Solutions again.

The Right People, Right Time, Right Place,

Carillion urgently needed to recruit a Graphic Designer and Senior Proposal Manager to handle the strong pipeline of new opportunities. It was imperative that the new personnel could hit the ground running. Using the McQuaig Job Survey we rapidly profiled the behaviours and traits needed for success in this role with the hiring manager. This dramatically reduced wasted interview time and allowed Carillion to get back to business as usual, with minimum disruption.

Ken Erskine (Senior Proposals Manager) of Carillion said:

The candidates presented by Bid Solutions were of the highest quality and organisational fit. They excelled in their promise to provide me with the best people for the job.




The Right People, Right Place, Right Time

Dell had a global project to build and maintain a database of pre-written content. They needed a specialist team of people to write, edit and manage the content. They also needed a technical team to build and manage the specialist databases that manage the content. With aggressive deadlines the team needed to be mobilised very quickly. Based on our specialist knowledge of content management and proposal software we provided a team of 6 experts comprising Document Writers, Database Consultants, Project Managers and VB / SQL Programmers. The project delivered significant global efficiencies for the sales force, particularly around proposal development.

Andy Barker (Head of Solutions Design Centre) of Dell said:

Utilising Bid Solutions’ skills, resources and knowledge, Dell has developed an industry leading content management solution. The entire sales force can rapidly generate professional proposals and customer documentation with minimal effort and maximum impact.


The Right People, Right Time, Right Place

Experian had an urgent business need to expand their UK bid capability. With three senior vacancies to fill they needed access to the very best people in the market. Using Bid Solutions extensive network and its expertise in the McQuaig Psychometric and Profiling system, Experian were able to rapidly recruit top performing bid personnel that had a strong cultural and behavioural fit.

Kelli Stephenson (Sales Force Support) of Experian said:

"I was very impressed with Bid Solutions’ ability to provide the right people for the right roles in the shortest time possible. Their comprehensive approach and use of McQuaig profiling tools gave us confidence that our time, resource and energy were invested well."




The Right People, Right Time, Right Place

T-Systems were responding to a large tender and needed to build a team of proposal writers that had specific industry knowledge and could be onsite within a week. We presented a team of three experienced proposal writers within two days that had the necessary skills, experience and flexibility to service this high profile requirement.

Bob Mountford (Sales Proposal Asset Manager) of T-Systems said:

We needed a specific mix of expertise there and then, so it was even more impressive that Bid Solutions could react so quickly and provide the resources needed to help us produce the high quality response.

The Right People, Right Time, Right Place

Verizon needed to deploy, with minimal delay, a team of highly experienced and skilled individuals capable of working on complex legacy billing system. Using our extensive network and conscious of the cost constraints, we conducted a European-wide search to find the specialist skills required to deliver this project. We successfully deployed a team of high-skilled architects on long term contracts.

Gary Hamilton (Senior Technical Manager) of Verizon said:

The speedy response and specialist knowledge that Bid Solutions’ technical staff brought to the legacy integration project is exactly what we needed.