STOP LOSING THE £1m+ TENDERS YOU SHOULD BE WINNING
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STOP LOSING THE £1m+ TENDERS YOU SHOULD BE WINNING
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Most firms lose bids they were qualified to win because the panel never believed in the team behind the submission.
Rise is the only firm in the UK that wins tenders by putting your credibility on film, built into the bid as evidence the evaluator scores.
Send us your tender or jump on a short call. We will look at one bid you lost or one you are about to enter. If it is not a fit, we will tell you straight.
We tie our fee to the outcome
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We tie our fee to the outcome 〰️
From word of mouth to a £3m tender invitation in eight weeks
Greenheart had twenty-five years of reputation in sustainable building and almost no way to make a decision-maker feel it before the meeting. We put their real credibility on film and put it in front of the architects and specifiers who decide who gets invited to bid. What happened in eight weeks:
A pipeline of warmer, better-fit prospects who arrived already understanding how Greenheart works
Multiple tender invitations as a direct result of the films
Support securing a £3 million tender opportunity, credited directly to the work
“The films have given prospects a real sense of our company culture before we even speak. Since launching, we have seen a growing network of clients and prospects, multiple tender invitations as a direct result, and support in securing opportunities including a £3 million tender.”
Richard Hatfield, Greenheart
The bids you should have won that you did not
You can name them. The tenders lost in the last eighteen months that you were qualified to deliver. The capability was real. The track record was there. The submission ticked every box they asked for. And the contract still went to a firm you know you are better than.
In person, on site, in the relationship, you are clearly as good as anyone you compete against. Then the bid goes in as a written document that reads like every other submission in the pile, and you cannot see exactly where in the process it fails to land.
You have a board conversation about win rate coming, and “we were too expensive” is no longer an answer anyone in the room accepts.
Who we are great for
You are most likely an MD, business development director, or part of the senior team at a firm that wins serious revenue through formal tender. Construction and the built environment, engineering and technical consultancies, facilities management, specialist contractors. You bid regularly for contracts in the £1m to £5m range.
Your day-to-day reality:
Bid volume is steady or up. Win rate is flat or sliding.
You make the final three often, and do not get picked often enough.
The debriefs come back vague, and confirm what you already suspected: the work was not the problem.
You have been tempted to blame price and discount the next bid to compensate.
A framework renewal, a new head of BD, or a growth target has made the current win rate a board-level problem.
You are too stretched to rebuild the bid function internally, and too established to keep writing the losses off.
The panel backs the firm it believes in
The instinct is to hire a better bid writer or trim the price. A sharper writer only makes a compliant bid more compliant, when the panel already believed you could tick the boxes. Cutting the price wins the work you least want at the margin you can least afford. Both leave the actual problem untouched.
A tender is decided by a panel, and the panel backs the firm it believes in. The criteria where strong firms lose are the judgement calls: can this team deliver, have they really done this before, do we trust them. A written submission can claim all three. Making a panel feel them is a different job, and it is the one your bid keeps losing.
While that gap stays open, the cost compounds quietly:
The bids you stop entering because the win rate no longer justifies the effort
The senior people who quietly lose faith in the firm's ability to grow
The pipeline gap each lost contract leaves in next year's numbers
Every quarter another board conversation about why work you should be winning keeps going elsewhere
Buyers are more than halfway through their decision before the tender even lands. The firms that win without being the incumbent are the ones who went the extra mile before the bid was opened. The proof that wins you contracts in a meeting is the exact thing a written submission cannot carry onto the page.
This is where Rise Pictures comes in
Rise Pictures installs the Tender Film Method: the only bid film system built around how evaluators actually score.
A bid consultancy sharpens the words. A video studio makes you look polished. Rise sits in the gap between them, with one job: making your firm's credibility undeniable in the room where the contract is decided. We will not hand you a corporate brand film, because a brand film is decoration and an evaluator does not get influenced by it.
Our Process:
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We read the tender the way the panel scores it. We identify the criteria where the contract is actually decided on trust rather than compliance - the questions your written submission answers but never makes them feel.
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We put your real capability on camera as evidence the panel can score: the team delivering the work, the projects that make your competence undeniable.
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We place short, targeted films at the points where the criteria carry the highest scores, so each one reads as evidence the panel weighs rather than decoration they skip.
The goal is simple. You stop losing tenders you should be winning, because the panel believes in your firm before they open the submission.
TENDER WINNING FILM CHANGES EVERYTHING
Your win rate climbs on the contracts that matter
The bids you should be landing start landing. The board conversation shifts from why you keep coming second to how you keep winning. Not one lucky bid. A pattern that holds, quarter on quarter, in your target tier.
You walk into every bid with the same proven asset working for you
No more starting from a blank document and hoping this one lands. One foundation built around how your firm wins, used across every tender that follows.
The panel believes in you before they read a word
Your real credibility reaches the evaluators early, so the submission lands on a panel that already trusts the team behind it. The advantage you have always had in the room finally shows up on the page.
What it is silently costing you
Incumbents and firms the buyer already trusts win between 60-90% of the time. Everyone else wins as little as 15%. The bid does not create that belief. It arrives too late. Here is what a flat win rate costs at each contract size:
£1m–£2m contracts: the bread and butter, and where most firms lose to bad presenting rather than bad work. One avoidable loss is a year of revenue plus the cost of bidding it.
£2m–£5m contracts: the bids that reshape a quarter. Losing one you were qualified to win is the single largest invisible line on next year's pipeline.
£5m+ framework-defining contracts: these come around once or twice a year. Losing one means waiting two quarters for the next equivalent opportunity, if it comes at all.
The question is not whether to invest in how you win tenders. It is how much the current win rate is costing the firm every quarter that nothing changes.
We tie our fee to the outcome
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We tie our fee to the outcome 〰️
What you are actually buying
You are buying a higher win rate on the contracts that matter to the firm. Rise delivers that through:
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the core asset, built with the Tender Film Method and designed to work across every bid you enter. One build, used across every tender that follows.
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for a named contract on the table now. We run the Evaluator Audit on that specific tender and build a film targeted to win it, plugged straight into the submission.
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You do not write the script, direct the shoot, or learn a new skill.
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From signed to submission-ready in weeks, not months.
We tie our fee to the outcome. A fixed amount to begin, and the rest only once the work has done its job. We carry the risk of getting you there, because we do not believe you should pay in full for a film until it is winning.
If you are losing tenders you should win…
every quarter it stays that way is the largest invoice on the pipeline.
What changes the result is someone who understands how a tender is scored, who puts the real proof of your firm in front of the panel, and who ties their fee to whether you win.
On the call, we will look at:
The named tender you are preparing for, or the recent loss you are still working through
Where in the submission the panel stops believing you, in our read of the scoring
Which two or three criteria the next contract will actually be decided on
Whether the Foundation Tender Film or a single Tender Winner is the right entry point