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We specialise in bids for civil, infrastructure, and commercial construction sectors across Australia. Our core expertise spans public and private sector including:Civil & Transport Infrastructure: Major road duplications, bridge replacements, structural concrete, and smart motorway upgrades involving state transport authorities (e.g., TfNSW, Sydney Metro).
Social Infrastructure: Schools, universities, sporting stadiums and major health/hospital facilities requiring strict live-environment (inc. SINSW, HINSW, Homes NSW, TripleZero, Development Victoria, Sydney Airport, QBCC).Defence Infrastructure (DISP): procurement panels, base upgrades, training centres.
While a major infrastructure or institutional building tender ideally requires a 4 to 6 week lead time to develop top tier bespoke methodology and staging imagery, as we have a complete team to focus on your submission, we often maintain an emergency response capacity for tight deadlines.
If you are facing a critical crunch, or a major addendum has completely rewritten your project scope mid bid, we can step in immediately with our team of copywriters, construction professionals graphic designers. We rapidly mobilise to audit your current returnable schedules, fill critical content gaps, coordinate engineering inputs, and ensure a compliant, polished submission. In the case where we have been engaged too late to complete full scope we can look at completing critical scope only for your team.
We focus on a gap analysis of where your company is currently and what work it takes to get to a standard to stand out and win. To us, it isn’t worth our effort or your time unless we make the effort to get us to a ‘wow’ stage. This is achieved both through key strategy but also through the 1% - that is answering every single section better than competition - clear, concise and with purpose.
We provide a detailed commercial proposal upfront before any work begins with an indication of cots before proceeding.
Yes. We act as strategic advisors, not just ‘tick boxers’. Chasing the wrong construction tender is an expensive way to lose money and burn staff. We assist our clients by assessing how you got the lead, how suited you are to this bid, your competition and whether you have any competitive advantage available. If the data shows you have a low probability of winning, we will tell you straight up. I sometimes say ‘I’m magic, but not that magic’ when clients are hoping for us to win unrealistic bids. Though we have helped companies win a single contract equal to/slightly greater than their current annual turnover and so sometimes we can do some pretty wild things with the right contractor (they were an absolute specialist at what they do and made the AFR Fast100 with our help!).
Absolutely. Landing a spot on national pre-qualification frameworks (like the National Prequalification System for Civil Road and Bridge Construction Contracts) or getting onto state panels (such as TfNSW or Sydney Airports) can be the holy grail for pipeline security.
We can assist with the registration and application process. We audit your corporate past performance, look at your capacity evidence, review your engineering credentials, and format your systems data to meet the exact thresholds required to get your business certified and registered.
Successful qualifications/panels include:
- OFSC
- TfNSW Prequalification
- Sydney Airport Panel
- University Panels such as Griffith University, TAFE, QUT for
builders/subcontractors
- Sydney Airport Panel
- Defence Panel
At this stage we work with our clients after they have found the correct tender to pursue (e.g., eTendering, VendorPanel, EstimateOne, Cordell Connect, Felix, NSW eTendering, AusTender, local councils). We can work with our clients when submitting on portals to ensure that filesize and type are correct according to principals requirements.