Supporting Tools, Templates and Guides

These supporting tools, templates and guides are available to you to review and embed, as you wish, into your bidding practices.

How to structure your responses.

You can gain evaluation points from how you structure each response. The structure is determined by whether it is a pass/fail or quality response and if you are wanting to show compliance or promoting a different approach.

Alchemy Content Toolkit

A Excel tool that enables you to identify the sections, subsections and ownerships for your proposal document and link these to he review dates.

Alchemy RED Team guides and templates

Some people think that the RED event is a time-consuming activity that you cannot afford for their bids. I have found that, on average, I gain 3 must change factors from each RED event. If you are not doing a RED event, then you risk putting three major errors in front of your customer.

Below are good practices, tools and templates that you are welcome to use for your RED events, or you may wish to merge into your bidding systems.

If you would like to undertake formal RED events for your bids, I am always happy to facilitate and be an independent reviewer.

How to perform a RED Event

RED Reviewer

Selection Tool

RED Reviewer

Comments Form

RED Reviewer

Information Template

Alchemy Final Edit Toolkit

Right at the end of you proposal development, when you are undertaking a final edit and review, use this toolkit to ensure that you do not miss any of the small editing actions that can make a big difference tpo the bid outcome.

Alchemy Writer's Guide

Provide all your bid team with a writer's guide to enable them to easily identify the elements of your brand identity and writing best practices that they need to deploy in their responses.

Alchemy Discriminator's Toolkit

Use this toolkit to identify the strength of your possible discriminators and assertively decide which ones to focus on and which ones need improving.