Senior Tender Advisor ðŸŽ
at devroomLocation: Fully Remote, UK-based 🧑💻 Pay: £500/day 💷 Employment Type: Contract, ongoing About Us 👋 We're a small UK software studio building systems for clients who can't afford them to break. We recently won a multi-year public sector contract against considerably bigger competitors, and we won it on the strength of the bid itself rather than the size of our team. We don't have a bid department. We have two directors and a deadline. We're looking for someone to change that. Role overview 🥁 As our Senior Tender Advisor, you'll own how we find, choose and win public sector work. This isn't a form-filling role. Some of the most valuable work you'll do is telling us which tenders to walk away from. You'll work directly with the directors, with nobody sitting between you and the decision. Responsibilities 🔨
- Identify and qualify opportunities across Find a Tender, Contracts Finder and the major framework portals.
- Own bid responses end to end: SQ/PQQ, ITT, method statements, social value, pricing narrative.
- Keep us compliant and current under the Procurement Act 2023.
- Build a reusable bid library so we stop answering the same questions from scratch.
- Run debriefs and post-award feedback, and feed what we learn into the next bid.
- Advise on go/no-go honestly, including when the honest answer is no. What we're looking for 🔍
- A real track record of winning UK public sector tenders, with the scars to prove it.
- Sharp, plain writing that an evaluator understands on the first read.
- Working knowledge of the Procurement Act 2023 and what actually changed under it.
- Comfort in a small team, where the process is whatever you build.
- Tech sector experience is a bonus, not a requirement. We can teach you what we do; we can't teach you fifteen years of knowing how buyers think. Benefits of working at devroom 🧠
- Fully remote with a flexible schedule.
- A direct line to the founders. No bid committee, no sign-off chain.
- Ongoing work rather than one-off bids. We'd rather find one person to grow with than a different freelancer every time.
- Genuine influence over which markets we go after.
- A results-oriented team that moves fast and won't drown you in process. How to apply 📩 We're not seeing applications in the the LinkedIn apply button. We'd rather read fifteen real applications than four hundred auto-generated ones. Email your CV to info@devroom.uk with "Senior Tender Advisor" in the subject line, and follow the devroom page here so we can cross-check that a human sent it. All other applications will be ignored.
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