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Scoping & Kick-off
We review the tender documents, agree the scope and give you a fixed quote.
A kick-off call then confirms owners, deadlines and the evidence we need from your team.
Business Funding & Planning
Work out what you need, what kind of money suits it, and what a funder will want to see.
Finance & TransactionsFixed fee, agreed in writing before any work starts
What Makes Our Business Funding & Planning Different
Before approaching anyone for money it helps to know how much, for what, over what term and on what security. We model the requirement, set out the realistic funding options and their true cost, and prepare the plan and figures behind the application. We are not regulated financial advisers, so we prepare you and introduce you rather than recommending a specific product.
Senior Writers
Experienced writers who already know how your market buys.
Fixed Fees
A written price before we start, with no hourly meter running.
On-Time Delivery
Planned back from the portal date, with time left for review.
Who it is for
Businesses planning an investment, an acquisition or a growth phase that needs external money.
What you gain
- A funding requirement based on cash flow rather than a round number
- Understanding of what each route costs in control and in interest
- Documentation ready before you start approaching funders
- Fewer wasted applications and fewer credit searches
Why Our Business Funding & Planning Service Matters
Smaller suppliers often lose on the page, not on delivery. Our business funding & planning service turns your real experience into clear, evidenced answers that score, so evaluators can see what your customers already know. You stay in control of every draft, and nothing leaves without a final compliance check.
What You Receive
Fixed fee, agreed in writing before any work starts
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Funding requirement analysis
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Business plan and financial forecasts
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Funding options summary
Why Work With Us For Business Funding & Planning?
Get In TouchWe write for the evaluator. Every answer is structured around the published criteria, built on your own evidence and edited to read clearly under time pressure, because that is how marks are awarded.
You deal directly with the writers doing the work, not an account manager passing messages along, and a director reads every submission before it goes out.
Our Business Funding & Planning Process
A clear, repeatable process keeps every bid on schedule and every answer on target. You stay informed at each stage and approve everything before it is submitted.
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Business Funding & Planning In Practice
Before approaching anyone for money it helps to know how much, for what, over what term and on what security. We model the requirement, set out the realistic funding options and their true cost, and prepare the plan and figures behind the application. We are not regulated financial advisers, so we prepare you and introduce you rather than recommending a specific product.
What is included: funding requirement modelling and timing, overview of available funding routes and their trade-offs, business plan and forecast preparation, lender and investor expectation briefing, introductions to brokers, lenders and regulated advisers.
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Quality Review
A senior reviewer scores the draft the way an evaluation panel would and flags where marks could be lost.
We refine it with your feedback until you are fully happy with every answer.
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Submission & Debrief
We run final compliance checks and can handle the portal upload for you.
After the result, we review the feedback together so the next bid is even stronger.
Important: Gautam Group is not authorised or regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. We provide funding readiness, preparation and introductions, not regulated financial advice, and we do not recommend or arrange specific financial products.
Funding & Planning Questions
No. We are not authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority and do not give regulated financial advice or recommend specific products. We prepare your case and introduce you to regulated brokers and lenders who do.
What Clients Say After The Award
Feedback from suppliers we supported on live tenders, shared anonymously at their request.
They rebuilt our quality responses from the ground up and we were shortlisted on a framework we had failed twice before. What changed was the evidence. Every claim was backed by a contract, a date or a measured result, and the evaluators noticed. The team asked sharper questions about our delivery than we had ever asked ourselves. They were honest about which lots we could realistically win, turned our site managers' notes into clear method statements, and kept everything calm when the portal deadline moved forward by a week. We now use them on every framework renewal and recommend them to other SMEs in our supply chain.
We had four days left and a half-finished submission. Their team took it over, ran the clarification questions and filed it with time to spare. We won the lot, and the debrief scores were the highest we have ever had on quality.
The bid library alone has saved us weeks a year. Our team now starts every tender with most of the groundwork already done instead of a blank page, and our answers are more consistent across every portal we submit to.
Honest advice from day one. They told us not to bid on two opportunities that looked tempting but did not suit us, which cost them fees and earned our trust straight away. The ones we did bid on, we won.
Our social value scores went from the bottom of the table to full marks across three consecutive submissions. They showed us how to tie commitments to the actual contract instead of listing everything we do in the community.
Responsive, calm and genuinely good writers. They made a small firm look exactly as capable as it is, and we now have a framework place that has changed the shape of our pipeline.
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Tell us the deadline or the problem. You will get an honest view of whether we can help and a fixed quote before you commit anything.
What You Can Count On
Built Around You
Every bid is planned around your services, your evidence and your capacity, never a template.
More Than Words
We find the operational detail that proves your quality, then make it easy to score.
Focused On Results
We measure ourselves by shortlists and awards, and review every outcome with you.
A Real Partnership
We work as part of your team, with honest advice even when that means not bidding.
Frequently Asked Questions
Straight answers to the questions suppliers ask us most before their first tender.
Fees depend on the number of questions, the word counts and how much usable content you already have. We quote a fixed price before any work starts, and for many clients we offer a reduced base fee paired with a success bonus on award, so our incentives sit with yours.
A short quality submission can be turned around in a few days. A large framework with several lots usually needs three to four weeks. Tell us the deadline and we will say honestly whether it is achievable.
A director reads every submission, and the person who scopes your bid is the person who writes it. You deal with the writers directly, not an account manager passing messages along.
Yes. Most of our work is public procurement, but we also write private sector proposals, PQQs, RFPs and renewal submissions. Writing to a scoring framework transfers directly.
Ready To Take On Bigger Contracts?
Talk to a senior bid writer about your next tender. We will give you an honest view of your chances and a fixed quote for the work.