Shifting business goals from an award-winning sales career to becoming a bid consultant, bid manager, bid writer, and certified APMP Bid Professional was the springboard for Rick to become one of the UK’s highly reputable bid experts.

Winning bids had been at the core of Rick’s 20-year background in sales, account management and business development. It was a numbers game, and he achieved over £40M in complex solutions sales with major computer vendors, and £50M in international business unit sales with Logica, over a two year period as Head of Business Development.

Rare opportunity led to specialist bid training
It’s quite rare for any bid manager to have the chance to analyse a complex bid prior to submission. But that’s exactly what Rick did. In 2011, in Lynchburg, Virginia, Rick spent six weeks editing the final version of a bid worth £500m+ for a secure radio network for three Canadian provinces.

 

Art has been Helen’s passion since she was a child, which led to her career in graphic design. Combining her perfectionist streak, with a talent for creating beautiful visuals, Helen’s expertise lies in delivering graphic design solutions in her unique, artistic style.

From logos and canvas, to bid graphics
Most of Helen’s earlier design career was filled with creating logos, branding, brochures, audio-visual conferences and speaker support for product launches.

So how did she get into bid graphics? Working alongside her husband, Helen became proficient in editing all the complex bids he was working on.

During that process, she discovered the need for these bids to have clear, effective graphics. Many of them were laden with tired-looking, ineffective graphics.