We are recruiting a Bid manager to join a national contractor based from their regional hub in Cambridge to work on a number of specific schemes with future opportunities in the wider Northern Home Counties patch.
They have exceeded all their targets and budgets for 2024/5 and have secured pipelines of work for 2025/26 and due to the volume of opportunities are looking to increase their preconstruction team and focus on specific bids.
They target both framework opportunities and are secured on several including DFE, SCF, MOD and local authority frameworks and also work with repeat business clients and negotiate directly on bids in the commercial education, health, care, and leisure marketplaces but do not do single stage high risk developments and target projects valued between £30 and £120 million
They have an excellent preconstruction team consisting of bid managers, estimators, design team, building services and commercial experts who form a team for each bid and work as a team to achieve the best possible results.
Duties as a Bid Manager include Develop strategy and decide if compliant tender is feasible If desirable, produce non-compliant tender or alternative proposal in parallel. Produce & monitor Bid Programme, Response Tracker and Budget Communicate requirements to bid team, Ensure timely submission in required format, Provide technical and operational input to the proposed technical solution. Identify all project risks and mitiga...