Work Winning

Hollin use behavioural expertise to write compelling bids and coach teams for assessments, interviews, presentations and site visits.

Hollin’s bid/win rate is 92%

We have supported over £100bn worth of tenders over the last 20 years across Rail, Water, Defence, Aviation, Power, Highways and Construction.

Pre-tender strategic support and partnering preparation

Hollin deliver workshops supporting the development of work-winning and delivery strategies.

Maximise collaboration as a win theme: We offer support selecting partners, and completing pre-work for collaboration, aligned with ISO 44001. Early collaboration and team-building sessions develop content for the submission and set the team up for successful delivery post-award.

Tendering support: Score all the available marks

Write compelling and thorough tenders: Hollin provide a suite of quality submission support including storyboarding, copywriting, editing and reviews. We provide a straightforward and flexible support service, from leading bids to reviewing a single response and inserting the game-changing USPs that maximise scores.

Interview, Presentation and Behavioural Assessment Support

Set your team up for success: We design and deliver Behavioural / Collaboration Assessment preparation. We coach individuals and teams from Executives to Operatives for interviews, assessments, presentations and site visits using records of assessments and assessors from the past two decades.

"We were very well prepared for the assessment today as a result of the training by Hollin. The tuition and practice we had in the workshops paid dividends."

Paul White, Technical Director, Infrastructure - Atkins

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“I have worked with Hollin on a number of bid opportunities. From the moment the engagement commences you notice a very bespoke personal service. The Hollin team spend time in understanding the commission, ensuring that they understand the client drivers and preparing the team. Our teams always comment after the training how excited they are to present to the client. Thanks Hollin, you really make a difference, applying both the obvious and more subtle nuances of behavioural science and preparing us for success.”

Graham Keegan, Water Sector AMP7 Bid Director, Costain Group

“Everyone was very happy with the assistance and excellent suggestions on the documentation from Lynn Dunlop. The changes recommended by the Hollin engineers and safety experts really did improve the quality of our submission.”

Craig Reade, Bid Manager - Taylor Woodrow (Craig Reade is now Water Sector Director (Interim) at Costain Group PLC)

"Hollin provided professional support to the Balfour Beatty VINCI JV team bidding for HS2 works in the U.K. Howard, Joanne and Lynn provided expert guidance, training and tuition with immediate and candid feedback to help both our team and individuals perform at their best during the bid and the critical behavioural assessments. I would not hesitate to recommend Hollin for this work."

Peter Anderson, Managing Director – Balfour Beatty

“Thanks for your support with the collaboration workshops for the recent Network Rail tender that helped us to win a place within the Southern Integrated Delivery Team. I know our people really valued the preparation that you gave them and also took some personal and team development from them too.”

John Dowsett, CEO, Octavius Infrastructure