Who we are

Mike

A graduate of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and Royal Military College of Science Mike specialises in building, training and leading bid teams. He ran the Group SRCL and ERS Medical bidding effort before leading the operational growth of HealthBid. As HealthBid acquired new businesses and became Bidding Limited, he became the Group COO and led on harmonisation.

Mike’s passion is people and the values, solutions and confidence that can be generated through servant leadership. He also knows his way around a great bid.

Tom

A graduate of Leeds University and the NHS Graduate Management Training Scheme, Tom has a detailed knowledge of the health sector. As Managing Director of HealthBid he led the development of the business from an idea at the kitchen table to a team that won billions of pounds worth of work. He has a passion for people – building teams, making them as effective as possible, and delivering business goals.

Tom has lived experience of building a business where a key tenet for success was a highly effective and trusted culture. His team of teams approach to integrating operations and sales teams has led to teams that not only worked efficiently, but enjoyed their work.

What we do

We provide accelerated and trusted support to your commercial system enabling you to prepare, win and then thrive. We use a tailored bundle of services, tools and experiences formed from 12 years of:

  • Building teams

  • Managing and winning bids

  • Leading and inspiring great culture

  • Growing businesses

Together we have worked with a diverse range of organisations with differing needs, speeds and set-ups. Growing your business and retaining customers requires an integrated collective effort and we see that most commercial organisations has at least one systemic deficiency that erodes collective output. Often this output is reflected in a disappointing tender proposal. This might happen because a process is not working, there is a resourcing gap, culturally the team are not unified, or you can never match the methodology to the timeline.

Big Week Consulting use a methodology gained from years of adapting bid management processes to deliver maximum quality against short timelines. We immerse ourselves into your business plan, culture and process plugging the gap or fixing the issue that is impeding commercial progress. We break our services into three groups - Prepare, Win and Thrive.

In summary we offer:

  • Prepare

    • Expanding market reach and building pipelines

    • Build brilliant teams

    • Capture planning to help target opportunities

    • Bidding win strategies

  • Win

    • Process and methodology development

    • Solution design

    • Content libraries and application of AI

    • Content reviews

  • Thrive

    • Cultural health checks and audits

    • Metrics and impact planning

    • Social value

    • Leadership

Why us?

Big Week have a diverse bank of commercial experiences. As collaborative leaders working in three fast paced organisations together, Mike and Tom have experienced the drama and pain of slow sales, poor commercial preparation, disappointing bids and ineffective teams. We overcame those hurdles by generating an integrated methodology; a people first mentality with trust, confidence and empowerment at its core.