strategic advisory

Make a clearer bid or no-bid with an advisory team backed by science

Stay ahead of market shifts with practical, evidence-based advice and analysis delivered by experts who understand your commercial goals and act as an extension of your team.

Trusted by operators who bid for a living

Gain a competitive edge with solutions tailored to your unique challenges

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Bid writing strategy

Translate your bid quality strategy into a clear tender round approach. We help you decide what to buy and when, balancing spot purchases against forward and offtake agreements, so your procurement secures supply, manages price risk, and holds up against your delivery targets.

Bid round planner with scored lots and delivery against the bid window.

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Social value

Identify and invest in high-impact EAC and live contracts within your value chain to meaningfully address your Scope 3 requirements with the help of our supply chain experts and geospatial capabilities.

Social value desk mapping local jobs, apprenticeships, and SME spend.

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framework

Cut through framework complexity and build a scalable strategy to meet your aviation compliance obligations with the help of our in-house framework experts with first-hand experience of the scheme.

Framework fit showing eligible lots and call-off checklist.

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Pricing and portfolio valuation

Assess the true quality and financial value of your bid pipeline with rigorous scientific and financial analysis, backed by real market data and Aries Tender’s proprietary models.

Price and portfolio mix across lots against live benchmarks.

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Technical strategy support

Tap into deep technical expertise across the project lifecycle, whether you are buying responses or supplying them. We advise developers on which methodologies to use, how to structure projects, raise capital, and access the market, and we give buyers the same rigour when assessing project quality and delivery risk.

Technical scoring for method, mobilisation, and delivery risk.

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Reporting support

Turn your tender delivery into a credible story, with expert-backed claims, narratives and disclosure support that holds up with consumers, regulators, and internal stakeholders.

Bid report pack with narrative, evidence annex, and stakeholder outputs.

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Our expert team

Aries Tender's advisory team pairs deep public tender expertise with proprietary tools and unique public tender data. The team has published research alongside the City of London, the ASEAN Alliance on Tender Markets, and the International Service for Social value, and actively helps shape how integrity, pricing, and quality are understood across the public sector.

Hannah Reid, Managing Partner at Aries Tender

Hannah leads Aries Tender. She previously ran bid programmes for major UK contractors and now oversees strategy, client delivery, and how we staff live tenders.

Hannah Reid
Managing Partner
Marcus Bell, Director of Bid Strategy at Aries Tender

Marcus designs win themes and bid architecture for complex public contracts. He spent a decade leading bid teams in construction and health, and now shapes how Aries Tender qualifies and scores opportunities.

Marcus Bell
Director of Bid Strategy
Owen Fraser, Head of Compliance at Aries Tender

Owen leads compliance review across method statements, pricing schedules, and social value evidence. He previously worked in public procurement assurance and now makes sure every submission would stand up to evaluation.

Owen Fraser
Head of Compliance
Chloe Grant, Delivery Strategy Manager at Aries Tender

Chloe writes and edits scored responses for live tenders. She specialises in quality narratives, case studies, and turning delivery evidence into answers evaluators can mark quickly.

Chloe Grant
Delivery Strategy Manager
Nathan Cole, Head of Intelligence at Aries Tender

Nathan runs the notice watch and bid library. He tracks portals, lots, and past scores so writers start from evidence rather than a blank page, and keeps pipeline data current for the team.

Nathan Cole
Head of Intelligence
Yasmin Ali, Social Value Lead at Aries Tender

Yasmin builds social value responses that match the specification, not generic pledges. She works with clients on jobs, skills, SME spend, and measurable local outcomes that survive evaluation.

Yasmin Ali
Social Value Lead
Roberto Vale, Framework Lead at Aries Tender

Roberto supports framework and DPS submissions, from lot selection through call-off. He helps clients stay eligible, keep rate cards coherent, and mobilise quickly when a further-competition lands.

Roberto Vale
Framework Lead

Why Aries Tender

Rigorous guidance your leadership can defend

We translate complex market dynamics into clear, commercial steps. From portfolio design to stakeholder reporting, our team gives you the analysis and the narrative to make confident decisions and hold them up to scrutiny.

Benefit from unmatched market expertise

Our multidisciplinary team understands public tenders from every angle, with 70+ years combined experience across policy, regulation, finance, advisory, data, and technical analysis.

Rely on truly independent, conflict-free advice

Our advisory team works alongside you, for you, so our recommendations serve your interests alone. We have no commercial stake in any projects, responses or partners.

Act on practical, commercial advice

Secure a clear, defensible pathway to your delivery commitments. We translate complex market data into practical, commercial steps that hold up to financial and public scrutiny.

Base your decisions on real market data

We ground every recommendation in proprietary pricing, transaction, and project data drawn from our notice watch and direct relationships with developers. You act on what the market is actually doing, not on estimates or pre-packaged benchmarks.

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Combined years of public tender experience

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Research and media contributions

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Customer story

Assessing CCS viability for a leading UK energy generator

Aries Tender was commissioned to assess the viability of deploying CCS technology on landfill gas sites for a UK regional energy generator.‍

We produced a future-proofed tender round certification pathway, forward pricing benchmarks and a three-phased deployment roadmap from a proof-of-concept pilot development to portfolio expansion.

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Services provided

  • Technology landscape assessment
  • Value chain analysis
  • Certification and methodology review
  • Funding landscape mapping
  • Strategic deployment recommendations
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Find out how we can support your strategic goals

Featured insights

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What to expect from the next procurement round

Blog
27.10.2026
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Introducing the notice desk: a faster route from your record to live tenders

Blog
26.10.2026
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Inside the notice watch – who is buying, which lots are moving, and where the work is going

Blog
5.10.2026
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The new landscape for social value

Blog
28.9.2026

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