Commercial & Financial Modelling
Delivering robust, dynamic and competitive financial models to ensure bid success
Navigating bid complexities requires precise financial modelling to ensure competitive pricing, service sustainability and contract profitability. Our Financial Modelling services offer an in-depth tender review, aligning the solution with baseline costing.
These baselines are developed throughout the bid cycle, applying appropriate stress-testing and scenario analysis alongside the relevant governance timelines. During the process we look at market-aligned pricing strategies, and price vs quality analysis to develop the best possible combination of price, solution and tender score.
We deliver robust models that support every type of bid, ensuring they are accurate, competitive, profitable, and sustainable.
Our approach
The financial model is crucial to bid success, especially for public sector contracts where value for money is key. We work collaboratively with client bid teams to create thoroughly audited, credible, and accurate bid models. Our models are dynamic, flexible, and easily updated to reflect negotiated commercial positions.
Our services
We produce ‘price to win’ financial models under tight deadlines, clearly identifying assumptions, inputs, options, scenarios, risks, and opportunities. Our rigorous standards ensure reliability and precision, providing a competitive edge and ensuring value for money in every bid.
Making financial models simple: Communicating information in a way that ‘non-finance’ people can understand.
Customised financial models: Delivering highly complex, personalised financial models, tailored to specific tender requirements.
Scenario analysis: Advanced scenario analysis capabilities to evaluate various bid/no-bid situations and their potential impacts.
Multiple lot bidding: Developing models that enable multiple ‘lot views’ of tender specifications i.e. if there are twelve lot regions, these can all be modelled and viewed in one document.
Expert documentation review: Expertise in reviewing and reflecting documentation provided by commissioners within our models, ensuring accuracy and compliance when submitting a tender i.e. TUPE review and mapping into solutions/pricing, indexation/inflation application, service credits, performance requirements and more.
“Creating a financial model involves numerous considerations such as payment terms, performance-related payments, TUPE, supply chain, contractual agreements, IT requirements, ISO standards, indexation, VAT, multiple lots, price/quality split, and evaluation criteria… the list goes on.
“It's not about inputting some numbers into a spreadsheet and thinking ‘yes that’s good job well done’. We have to then put the solution through appropriate due diligence, assessing risks and deliverables beyond the client’s control.
“We stress-test every commercial model with multiple 'what if?' scenarios, assessing impacts on cash requirements and profitability, and reviewing strategies covering risk mitigation. Clients receive a fully costed tender solution, adaptable in the real world, alongside a comprehensive assumption pack and risk and opportunities register… adding true value.“
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