Strategic work-winning. Redefined.

With over 40 years of experience securing £30bn in contracts, our proven work winning, marketing and technical specialists offer a flexible, agile approach.

Positioning
Solutioning
Pitching
Delivering
Learning

Positioning

Bid library
Capture planning
Governance and process
Opportunity sourcing
PR, marketing and comms

Solutioning

Commercial strategy
Construction management planning
Consultant appointments
Risk assessments
Technical strategy

Pitching

Bid management
Bid writing
Cost planning / estimating
Design management
Infographics and DTP
Interview preparation
Planning and methodology
Reviews and audits

Delivering

Access control and guarding
Bespoke IT solutions
Geospatial surveys
Logistics solutions
Payroll
Project resourcing

Learning

Analysis and data capture
Continual improvement
Customer service feedback
Lessons learnt

We’ve moved

Bridgehead Consultancy is now based at
The Dock
Station Road
Kings Langley
WD4 8LZ

About us

Our team brings unmatched expertise in market positioning and work-winning strategies.

There is no shortage of work winning consultancies in the built environment market, so why choose Bridgehead?

Our services

Whether providing early positioning strategy, managing an entire bid or helping with specific pre-construction workstreams we enhance your team’s capabilities.

Drawing on Munnelly Group’s expertise, we support everything from strategic proposals to innovative logistics and controlled access solutions. Our varied expertise, skills and personalities help us provide a full spectrum of services through the bid lifecycle that is, we believe, truly unique in the construction sector.

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Positioning

Capture planning and early positioning boost win chances by establishing you as the supplier of choice. A structured approach builds key relationships, uncovers client needs, and shapes the buying process. We provide tailored strategies to match client and stakeholder complexity.

Bid library

Exceptional bid libraries are crucial as AI helps competitors create more polished responses. The edge comes from organised, compelling collateral. We help you build a robust bid library that equips your team to adapt content, ensuring proposals are differentiating and persuasive.

Capture planning

An effective capture plan is vital for strategic bids, developed well before the ITT arrives. It helps you position yourself as the preferred partner. We help refine your approach, challenge assumptions, identify decision-makers, and build relationships to guide informed decisions throughout the bid lifecycle.

Governance and process

Securing profitable projects on favourable terms is key to sustainable growth. We’ll help you develop a tailored governance process, seamlessly integrated into your operations, ensuring clear decision-making with approvals aligned to authority and contractual boundaries. PAS 360 best practices support an efficient, cost-effective approach to prioritising opportunities.

Opportunity sourcing

Finding the right opportunities is key to growth at any stage. Our sourcing and portal management service streamlines lead generation across platforms like Constructionline, Builders Profile, and Contracts Finder. We set up filters, alerts, and checks to match projects with your capabilities and reach, while identifying frameworks for a steady pipeline. We also assist with prequalification, ensuring you’re well-positioned for success in every pursuit.

Public relations, marketing and communications

Reputation, awareness, perception and branding are crucial to your positioning. Our team of strategists, brand specialists, marketers, and designers work together to craft messaging that resonates and drives growth. We offer innovative solutions in branding, campaigns, social media, web design, and PR to make your brand stand out. With data-driven insights and clear strategies, we align with your goals for measurable success.

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Solutioning

A strong commercial strategy is vital for securing projects that align with your goals and deliver long-term value. This involves understanding client needs, financial objectives, risk appetite, and capabilities. Our strategist develops an approach that balances competitive pricing with value-added offerings, ensuring profitability without compromising quality. We evaluate contract terms, market trends, and other factors to position your bid for success with a sustainable margin.

Commercial strategy

A strong commercial strategy is vital for securing projects that align with your goals and deliver long-term value. This involves understanding client needs, financial objectives, risk appetite,
and capabilities.

Our strategist develops an approach that balances competitive pricing with value-added offerings, ensuring profitability without compromising quality. We evaluate contract terms, market
trends, and other factors to position your bid for success with a sustainable margin.

Consultant appointments

Securing the right consultants on the right terms is crucial for successful design and build projects. We help you select expertise aligned with your project’s needs and goals.

From scoping to negotiating terms and carrying out hackathons, we ensure consultant appointments add value, mitigate risks, and support your team, strengthening your proposal to meet
client expectations and operational objectives.

Risk assessments

Comprehensive risk assessments are essential for identifying challenges and mitigating uncertainties. We evaluate financial, operational, legal, reputational, and safety risks, considering external factors like market volatility and internal ones like resource availability.

By addressing risks proactively, we strengthen bid credibility, minimise impacts, and support informed decisions.

Supply chain alignment

Securing supply chain alignment before a bid lands is crucial to positioning your proposal as reliable and well-prepared. We optimise work packaging and engage the right partners from your approved lists, ensuring early commitment to your project goals.

With our support, your supply chain focuses on you, not your competitors, demonstrating your strategic vision and solid partnerships for a competitive, credible bid.

Technical strategy

A strong technical strategy is crucial for a winning bid, and we help you develop one that aligns with client goals and highlights your strengths. Through design and compliance reviews, we ensure regulatory standards while incorporating buildability and value engineering.

Our assessment refines technical elements to meet client expectations for performance and sustainability, positioning you as the ideal partner with practical, value-driven solutions.

Construction management planning

A well-structured construction management plan is key to project success. We develop plans that optimise logistics with time slices and swept path analysis, ensuring clear timelines, resource allocation, and risk management.

By refining workflows and enhancing coordination, we minimise delays and ensure compliance and safety. This plan demonstrates your ability to manage complex projects, meeting client expectations for quality, budget, and timely delivery.

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Pitching

Risk assessments identify challenges and mitigate uncertainties. We evaluate financial, operational, legal, reputational, and safety risks, factoring in market volatility and resource availability. Proactively addressing risks strengthens bid credibility, minimises impacts, and supports informed decisions.

Bid management

We support you throughout the bidding process, from strategy and win themes to compliance, proofreading, and submission. Our transparent approach ensures a well-structured bid that highlights your value while aligning with internal governance. With clear communication and efficient administration, we seamlessly integrate with your team, on-site or remotely, and can use your company email when needed.

Bid writing

Our bid writers create innovative proposals that meet customer requirements and excel in qualitative assessments. We collaborate with your team to improve proposals, showcasing your solution’s value to stay ahead of the competition. From content creation to compelling framework responses, we drive high-scoring submissions that set you apart, helping you work smarter and win more.

Cost planning

Our estimating and cost planning associates provide cost estimates and budgets aligned with market conditions and project needs. Working with you throughout the bid lifecycle, we manage costs, identify value engineering opportunities, and mitigate risks. From feasibility studies to tender submissions, we ensure your proposals are competitive and realistic.

Design management

Our bid design management associates handle consultant appointments, ensuring aligned deliverables, schedules, and scopes. We manage selection, scheduling, and quality execution while conducting design reviews for compliance, buildability, and risks. Supporting your team or managing complex appointments, we deliver coordinated, risk-mitigated design programmes that minimise
delays and cost.

Infographics and DTP

Our infographics and desktop publishing service transforms complex bid content into engaging visuals. We craft impactful graphics that highlight key data and win themes, ensuring your proposal stands out. From refining documents to interactive presentations, we ensure consistency with brand guidelines, enhancing visual appeal and increasing your bid’s success chances.

Interview preparation

We help clients prepare for interviews with mock panels and coaching, ensuring confident presentations. Our service simulates real scenarios, providing feedback on performance, messaging, and presentation. We focus on handling tough questions, highlighting strengths, and aligning responses with client priorities.

Planning and methodology

We provide construction planning support through logistics, planning, and project management specialists. Working with your team, we develop detailed plans, timelines, and methodologies for efficient delivery. Combining logistics and construction expertise, we create realistic schedules, identify key milestones, and mitigate risks, ensuring a clear and achievable execution plan.

Reviews and audits

Our critical friend audits and reviews offer an objective perspective to enhance your bid’s effectiveness. We assess content, structure, and strategy against client qualitative scoring regime, providing constructive feedback and mock score. This collaborative approach ensures your proposal is compelling and tailored to maximise scoring potential.

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Delivery

Ensuring a smooth transition from bid to delivery is key to a successful contract launch. We leverage our sister companies to support clients through every phase, ensuring efficient handover. From workforce resourcing and payroll to logistics coordination and access control, we tap into the Munnelly Group’s services to help enhance your value proposition.

Access control and guarding

Bespoke IT solutions

Weston Analytics offers advanced software solutions tailored to the built environment, enhancing efficiency, safety, and compliance through innovative technology.

Geospatial surveys

Severn Partnership, Chartered Land Surveyors, provides land and topographical surveys, measured building surveys, 3D laser scanning, BIM, rail surveys, utility surveys, drone surveys, monitoring, and geospatial data management.

Logistics solutions

The Munnelly Group name is synonymous with comprehensive site logistics, covering labour, waste management, traffic management, health & safety compliance, and more, all to ensure streamlined operations with complete regulatory compliance.

Payroll

Bishopsgate offers the UK market specialist outsourced payroll administration, employment and contractor support services. We can pay anyone you engage within your business removing the administrative and compliance headaches you may currently endure.

Project resourcing

City Calling connects clients with skilled construction industry staff through tailored recruitment solutions. Services include temporary and permanent placements, candidate screening, job matching, industry expertise, and CV and interview support.

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Learning

Continuous improvement and lessons learnt drive ongoing efficiency and effectiveness in every project. By analysing past successes and challenges, organisations can adapt, refine, and optimise their processes to deliver better outcomes with each new contract.

Continual improvement

This commitment to learning ensures resilient, proactive approaches that boost client satisfaction, minimise risks, and position the organisation as a leader in quality and innovation.

Most companies capture data, but too rarely use it to inform decision making. We work with clients to understand meaningful metrics that can drive efficiency, from marketing and social media impact, through bid / no bid decision making to post completion satisfaction.

Analysis and data capture

Customer service feedback

Lessons learnt

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