Craft people

When deals are won by teams of people, you need the right teammates by your side who take pride in their craft and hate losing just as much as you do.

Bid like you mean it
Our Promise:

We commit to being…

Experts in our field,
there’s no drop-off from sales to delivery

Hands on,
not hands in pockets

Responsive,
not complacent

Legacy builders,
not one-hit wonders

Empathetic,
not lecturing

Innovators,
not followers

Pragmatic,
not overwhelming

Networkers,
because communities work better

Coaches,
not mercenaries

Leaders of the bid and proposal profession, not passengers

Crafters

The BidCraft crew

We’re a team of bidding artisans that takes pride in its craft, loves to go beyond the bland, always sweats the details, and never settles.

Mission. Ethos. Culture

Less talk. More action.

Based in the UK and Australia, we are an award-winning* firm of consultants with expertise in large public sector and defence deals, and leading deal functions.

Deliberately compact, we carry impact beyond our headcount. In 2023 we saw a gap in the industry and acted on it by instigating and authoring BSI PAS 360:2023, the international code of best practice for bid and proposal management.

We also launched an annual International Day for Bids and Proposals to recognise and celebrate the contribution bid and proposal professionals make to economic growth through their commitment and expertise.

* Winners of APMP UK’s Industry Innovation award in 2020 as judged by industry experts.

Our ethos
As a team of bidding artisans our ethos is to make a sustainable contribution to your business growth. We see bidding as an art form. It’s about blending a mix of ingredients into something crafted, tailored, and amazing.
Our culture

We are a company with a social conscience. Kindness, empathy and sharing are fundamental characteristics that not only feel good, but they make a big impact on the people we work with.

Our contributions

Supporting trusted climate projects

We care about doing the right thing, so we’re proud to work with Ecologi to help fund carbon offset projects and responsible tree planting around the world. We’re offsetting our carbon emissions and becoming a carbon positive workforce by growing the BidCraft company forest.

Every time someone becomes a Crafter, we enrol them into Ecologi, which funds climate solutions around the world. And whenever someone buys one of our APMP certification courses, we fund even more tree planting.

If you want to sign up, then use this link and Ecologi will plant an extra 30 trees as a thank you.

We plant trees with Ecologi      

Supporting the armed forces community

We are proud signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant. In being so we recognise the value Serving Personnel, both regular and reservists, Veterans and military families contribute to our business and our country. Our commitment involves:

  • Promoting the Armed Forces
  • Supporting the employment of veterans, Service spouses and partners
  • Supporting our employees who are members of the Reserve Forces or are volunteer leaders in military cadet organisation
  • Supporting Armed Forces Day, Reserves Day, the Poppy Appeal Day and Remembrance activities
  • Supporting Armed Forces charities
  • Offering discounts to members of the Armed Forces community.

 

FAQs

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Who do you partner with and why? expand

As a micro-sized business, we work with other amazing companies who excel at their craft. This lets us scale flexibly to deliver a broader range of specialist services. You can either engage them through us as one-team, or we can introduce you and step back, whichever gives the best outcomes.

Here they are in alphabetical order. Take a bow.

EllisJames
Help brands stand out and their people stand together. A tightly collaborative creative team, delivering strategically effective brand engagement solutions for complex organisations and SMEs. In fact, they designed this website.

Net Zero International
Passionate about enabling businesses to measure, analyse and improve their carbon emissions and join the UN Race to Zero.

transformacy
transformacy is a specialist management consultancy whose purpose is to help its clients create long-term stakeholder value through the implementation of business growth strategies that focus on the ethical, social, environmental, cultural, and economic dimensions of doing business.

Write Arm
Write Arm is a multilingual copywriting and bid writing agency that works cross-sector with everyone from scale ups to global corporations.

What’s it like being a Crafter? expand

If you’ve ever dreamed of being part of something that does things differently, then that’s what it feels like.

Crafters innovate, test themselves, learn new skills, and never settle.

It’s hard work and everyone puts a shift in, but the rewards are amazing. We treat people as professional adults who don’t need micro-managing. In fact, we want people with a diversity of experience and thought who keep us on our toes. Echo chambers are a dangerous thing.

We innovate because we’re curious and want to deliver better outcomes for our clients. 

If something doesn’t exist, create it. If something doesn’t work, fix it. If something works, share it.

 

How do I join the crew? expand

We’re always looking for quality crew — whether that’s as a permanent Crafter or as a partner company.

We’re very approachable so get in touch and let’s talk.

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Looking to join our team?
We’re always looking for like-minded Crafters.