United Infrastructure Ltd
Bid Writer
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United Infrastructure is a dynamic and rapidly expanding business, focused on delivering critical infrastructure projects, across the utility and social infrastructure sectors.
Our team of highly skilled and hardworking specialists deliver innovative solutions to the complex challenges our clients face.
Our company is split into two business areas:
Utility Infrastructure
Our team of Utility Infrastructure specialists design, build and maintain critical water, energy (gas), power and telecoms infrastructure, for the UK’s largest network owners and operators.
Social Infrastructure
Our team of Social Infrastructure specialists revitalise homes and communities by carrying out a wide range of work, from retrofit to refurbishment, and maintenance.
Equal Opportunities Statement - At United Infrastructure, we are committed to making every interaction a positive and inclusive experience. If there is anything we can do to support you, remove barriers, or make the process more accessible, please let us know — we want this to be the best possible experience for you.
Job Description – Bid Writer
Job Title: Bid Writer
Department: Work Winning / Bids – Water
Reports To: Bid Manager / Head of Bids
Location: Clearwater
Role Purpose
The Bid Writer will support the successful identification, management and submission of tender opportunities across the Water business, with particular responsibility for opportunities arising through existing framework contracts.
The role combines high-quality proposal writing with the coordination and management of lower-complexity bids and framework opportunities. The Bid Writer will work closely with operational, commercial, estimating and technical teams to ensure opportunities are appropriately assessed, developed, recorded and progressed through the business's work-winning process.
A key part of the role will be supporting the effective management of existing Water frameworks, maintaining accurate opportunity and pipeline information within the CRM, monitoring upcoming framework activity and ensuring the business is prepared to respond to client opportunities.
This is a developing role designed to provide increasing exposure to bid management, client frameworks, commercial decision-making and wider work-winning activities, creating a clear progression route towards Bid Manager.
Key Responsibilities
Bid Writing and Proposal Development
- Draft clear, compelling and client-focused tender responses for Water sector opportunities.
- Interpret tender questions, evaluation criteria and client requirements to establish what must be demonstrated within each response.
- Develop structured responses that clearly communicate our proposed approach, relevant experience, capability, benefits and differentiators.
- Work with subject matter experts to gather technical, operational, commercial, SHEQ, environmental, sustainability and social value information.
- Translate technical information into clear and persuasive written responses.
- Develop and maintain project case studies and supporting evidence for use within submissions.
- Ensure responses are tailored specifically to the client, framework and opportunity rather than relying on generic content.
- Proofread and quality-check submissions for accuracy, consistency, grammar and presentation.
- Incorporate review comments and lessons learned into final tender responses.
Framework Contract Management
The Bid Writer will have particular responsibility for supporting the management of opportunities generated through the Water business's existing framework contracts. Responsibilities will include:
- Maintain visibility of upcoming opportunities across allocated Water frameworks.
- Monitor framework portals, client communications and internal intelligence to identify new and upcoming opportunities.
- Maintain a clear forward look of expected tenders, mini-competitions, work packages and call-off opportunities.
- Coordinate with Framework Managers, Operations Leads and Commercial teams to understand likely workload and client priorities.
- Ensure new opportunities are captured within the CRM promptly and accurately.
- Support initial opportunity qualification and Bid / No Bid discussions.
- Coordinate the early mobilisation of bid teams when opportunities are released.
- Establish key tender dates, deliverables, responsibilities and review requirements.
- Manage lower-value and lower-complexity framework submissions under the direction of the Bid Manager / Head of Bids.
- Track outstanding actions and inputs from contributors to maintain progress against submission deadlines.
- Maintain awareness of framework performance, upcoming workload and potential pipeline gaps.
- Support the preparation of framework opportunity reviews and pipeline updates for the Water leadership team.
- Develop an understanding of individual framework requirements, client expectations, contractual mechanisms and procurement processes.
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The Bid Writer will become a key point of contact within the Work Winning team for allocated Water frameworks, ensuring opportunities are actively managed rather than simply responded to when tenders are released.
Bid Management
As capability develops, the Bid Writer will take increasing responsibility for managing appropriate opportunities from receipt through to submission. This will include:
- Review tender documentation and identify key submission requirements.
- Develop bid programmes and submission schedules.
- Coordinate inputs from operational, technical, commercial and support functions.
- Arrange and participate in bid kick-off meetings and response workshops.
- Allocate actions and monitor completion against agreed deadlines.
- Maintain tender trackers and action logs.
- Identify missing information, evidence or resource requirements and escalate these where necessary.
- Coordinate review stages and ensure comments are incorporated ahead of submission.
- Support the completion of internal governance and approval requirements.
- Ensure all tender documentation is correctly controlled and stored.
- Coordinate final submission requirements and portal uploads where required.
- Support post-tender clarifications, presentations and interviews.
Larger, strategically important or higher-risk opportunities will continue to be led by a Bid Manager, with the Bid Writer supporting proposal development and coordination.
CRM and Pipeline Management
The Bid Writer will play an active role in maintaining the quality and accuracy of Water work-winning information within the CRM. Responsibilities will include:
- Create and maintain CRM records for allocated Water framework opportunities.
- Ensure opportunities are recorded at the earliest appropriate stage.
- Maintain accurate information relating to:
- Client and framework
- Opportunity / project name
- Scope
- Estimated value
- Tender release date
- Submission date
- Expected award date
- Programme / delivery dates
- Probability and opportunity status
- Bid / No Bid decision
- Bid owner
- Operational and commercial leads
- Key partners or supply chain requirements
- Tender outcome
- Update opportunity stages as bids progress through the work-winning process.
- Ensure CRM information reflects the latest intelligence from Framework Managers and operational teams.
- Support regular reconciliation of framework pipelines against CRM records.
- Identify missing, duplicated, outdated or inaccurate CRM information and coordinate its correction.
- Ensure submitted, won, lost and withdrawn opportunities are correctly updated.
- Capture reasons for tender outcomes and client feedback where available.
- Support reporting of secured, submitted and pipeline opportunities.
- Contribute to regular Water pipeline and work-winning reviews.
- Promote consistent CRM usage across the Water Work Winning and operational teams.
The Bid Writer will be expected to understand that CRM accuracy is a core part of effective work winning, resource planning and business forecasting rather than an administrative exercise.
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Opportunity and Pipeline Management
Maintain an up-to-date understanding of the Water framework pipeline. Support the Head of Bids and Bid Managers in developing a forward view of workload. Identify periods of increased tender activity and highlight potential resource constraints. Track opportunities from early intelligence through qualification, tender, award and mobilisation. Liaise with operational teams to understand expected framework opportunities before formal tender release. Support prioritisation of opportunities where multiple tenders are being developed concurrently. Provide regular updates on bid status, upcoming deadlines and outstanding actions. Highlight risks to submission deadlines or bid quality at an early stage. Support reporting to the Water Senior Leadership Team on work-winning activity.
Working with Operational and Technical Teams
The role requires regular engagement with the people responsible for delivering our Water projects. The Bid Writer will:
- Build effective relationships with Framework Managers, Operations Directors, Project Managers, Engineers, Commercial teams and other specialists.
- Attend project and site visits to improve understanding of construction methodologies and project delivery.
- Interview subject matter experts to develop tender content.
- Challenge contributors constructively where information does not fully answer the client's question.
- Identify measurable evidence and project examples that strengthen submissions.
- Develop an understanding of how projects are planned, priced, delivered and commercially managed.
- Capture lessons learned and delivery innovations for use in future tenders.
Client and Framework Knowledge
The Bid Writer will develop detailed knowledge of the clients and frameworks allocated to them, including:
- Client priorities and strategic objectives.
- Framework procurement processes.
- Tender and mini-competition requirements.
- Client terminology and scoring methodologies.
- Key operational and commercial requirements.
- Previous tender feedback.
- Existing relationships and delivery performance.
- Competitor landscape.
- Upcoming investment programmes and pipeline.
This knowledge should be actively used to improve the quality and relevance of future submissions.
Bid Governance
Support compliance with the business's Bid / No Bid and Delegation of Authority processes. Ensure required governance information is available at appropriate decision points. Support preparation of bid approval information including scope, value, margin, key risks and contractual considerations where required. Maintain appropriate records of bid decisions and approvals. Escalate material commercial, contractual, programme or delivery risks to the Bid Manager. Ensure submissions are not issued without the appropriate internal approvals.
Knowledge Management and Continuous Improvement
Maintain and develop the Water bid content library. Capture strong responses, case studies and evidence from completed submissions. Maintain project case studies containing measurable outcomes and client benefits. Capture tender feedback and incorporate lessons learned into future submissions. Identify recurring weaknesses or gaps in tender evidence. Support continuous improvement of bid templates, processes and standard content. Maintain awareness of developments across the Water sector and individual client investment programmes.
Skills and Experience
Essential
- Strong written communication skills with excellent grammar and attention to detail.
- Ability to produce clear, structured and persuasive written content.
- Strong organisational skills and ability to coordinate multiple activities.
- Ability to work effectively to fixed tender deadlines.
- Confidence communicating with operational, technical and commercial colleagues.
- Ability to gather information proactively rather than relying solely on written inputs.
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Teams.
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