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This Black Friday, unlock unmatched quality and creativity with up to 50% off our expert proposal and bid design services!

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This paper explores how you can create a competitive advantage using branding strategies and how to efficiently manage them in your capture process.

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Uncover the secrets to crafting executive summaries and brochures that captivate and convince your audience.

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In an era where artificial intelligence is transforming industries, we are unlocking its untapped potential in the realm of bids and proposals.

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Unlock the secrets of winning bids by mastering the art of connecting every dot in the bid lifecycle.

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We recently received an RFI from a prospect that raised some eyebrows. Here's why...

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Calling in expert resources to support your proposal can fill a gap in your team's capabilities and, crucially, give you an edge over your competitors.

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Strategic Proposals offers an expert team with a proven tool and tailored training courses to help you navigate competitive landscapes.

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Strategic Proposals brings in expert proposal managers with extensive industry experience to lead the bid and proposal process.

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Strategic Proposals offers expert training, coaching, and creative support to ensure your presenters effectively convey your strategy and solution.

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Strategic Proposals provides independent expert reviewers who assess proposals to ensure it creates empathy with the customer and tells a compelling story.

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Strategic Proposals crafts concise, engaging proposal and collateral content that tells a compelling story and resonates with evaluators.

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Strategic Proposals attracts the best designers to create amazingly designed content that elevates your proposal and collateral.

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Strategic Proposals provides courses that provide hands-on training in the latest techniques and competencies to win and retain work in competitive markets.

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We help teams develop winning habits by benchmarking existing capabilities, identifying improvement opportunities, and running transformation programs.

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Personal development has never been so important. But how do you know where you need to sharpen your skills? That's why we developed My Proposal Coach™.

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Taking a more active approach to active qualification helps improve qualification effectiveness and this paper will show you how.

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Watch our video where Tim and Graham talk about the value of keeping the written proposal conversational, and how to avoid nominalisation.

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Strategic Proposals is committed to staying ahead of innovation in proposal development, so we're exploring applications of AI in our process.

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There's always a lot going on, isn't there? Too much to keep track of, it seems. Here's what we've been up to over the past few months

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This white paper discusses that all-important step in the capture process from business development to proposal.

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Increase your probability of winning with capture tactics that work! To win business in today's highly competitive world, you must stand out from the crowd.

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Strategic Proposals have contributed 5 articles to the latest edition of Bid Solution's award-winning Bidding Quarterly.

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We were delighted to be diamond sponsors and were the official sponsor of the BPC Certification Day on Sunday 2 June.

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Watch our video where we discuss why so many people in the bid and proposal profession fall back on the same baffling words and phrases?

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Our new Procurement Act readiness workshop is essential if you want to bid for public contracts in the UK and stay ahead of the competition.

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From defining objectives, to maintaining customer confidentiality, here'd eight valuable principles to follow if you're considering using generative AI in bids.

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​Directors Lorraine and Jon are contributors to issue 18 of Bid Solutions' Bidding Quarterly

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Our latest white paper unveils the results of our third iteration of primary research about bidders' view of buying.

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BJ Lownie, Strategic Proposals' founder has started to move towards his well-earned retirement in early 2025.

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We are pleased to announce that one of our designers is now APMP graphic certified.

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So pleased to announce that Debbie Mullen has joined our expanding SP family, with 20 years' experience in proposal writing and management.

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We're delighted to welcome Regina Ellis as the latest star signing of our SP family. We are constantly growing as a business, which is great!

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Strategic Proposals have recently presented at the APMP Consultant Showcase. Helping businesses win work and retain contracts.

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Our very own Jon Williams and Graham Ablett feature in the latest BQ, the award-winning publication produced by our friends at Bid Solutions.

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24 ideas for 2024. Inspirational things you can do in the New Year. 

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We were interested to read the first release of the new BSI "PAS 360" code of practice for bid and proposal management, launched last week

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We're so proud of Graham Ablett who won Contribution to the profession at the recent UK APMP awards dinner.

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We are excited to announce we are finalists in the four categories we entered for the UK APMP awards,. Fingers crossed to find out at the awards dinner.

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We are so proud to be the only organisation to sponsor every APMP UK conference since the first. We are all #proudtobeapmp

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This new paper is the third iteration of our popular research report into how buyers view the proposals they receive from their suppliers.

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We're so proud of our award-winning training team. Our APMP training courses have received net promoter scores (NPS) of 94%.

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We put our own Jon Williams up against the might of Artificial Intelligence to see whether people could distinguish between his answer and AI.

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How AI performs against our own Strategic Proposals expert, Jon Williams. We test the power of AI, comparing to real experts.

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We were delighted to sponsor Twickenham Rugby Football Club's (TRFC) recent under-14 tour of Dublin.

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In this informative and engaging session, founding member and advocate of proposals as a profession and APMP and a 40+ year veteran of proposal development,.

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We look at where AI can help and where the human touch remains necessary. We'll discuss the pitfalls of AI and how advanced prompting can get the best results.

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This webinar is all about tips to make your presentation stand out. Whether you present or help presenters to prepare, you'll find these tips to be invaluable.

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Strategic Proposals, have created an environment that is inclusive and we ensure that the proposals industry comes from diverse backgrounds.

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Kicked off our summer 2023 webinar series at Strategic Proposals, with information on our proposal coordinator apprenticeship role.

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BCP Global in Orlando. We are there in force running an APMP Foundation course on the accreditation day, being silver sponsors, and we've got 5 presenters!

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We were proud to sponsor the WIBAP 2023 event this year. There was a touching personal presentation from the lovely Kat and SP were there in force.

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​Strategic Proposals attended the Loopio partner kick-off in May 2023, Strategic Proposals where we won the MASTERY award during the Loopio Partner Awards.

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The aim of the course is to share the key parts of the syllabus with you and maximise your chances of passing the micro-certification.

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We are really pleased to welcome Christine Johnson to the SP family as our office manager.

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We are delighted to announce that we won the top prize - for "Best Integration of Thought Leadership into the Sales Process" worldwide in the 17th Stevie® Awards.

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Run, Mark, Run! We're proud to sponsor one of our writers in this year's London Marathon, supporting Phab Kids.

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Delighted to be a finalist in the Stevie® Awards for Sales & Customer Service, in the category "Best Integration of Thought Leadership into the Sales Process".

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We're really pleased to announce that our training has now been endorsed by the Institute of Sales Professionals (ISP).

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Supplier of the Year is presented to "the organisation that reflects the highest standards that can be achieved by suppliers in the bid and proposal industry".

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The APMP UK Conference (11-12 Oct 2022) was epic! We were the headline sponsors and had a busy few days! We had a brilliant stand and video.

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We've got a great offer for anyone looking to book our APMP Practitioner and Capture Practitioner courses in October and November!

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We're hosting a special event at Hilton Heathrow Terminal 5,  10 October 2022 0830-1800.

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SP directors Jon and Graham show you how the very latest findings from this industry-leading benchmarking model can drive change in your organisation.  

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Watch SP designers Cíara and Marian to see how to create and compile an editable, animated movie using PPT. 

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We're delighted that our colleague Graham Ablett has been elected as a Fellow of the Association of Proposal Management Professionals. 


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SP directors Lorraine and Kat talk about how to create more customer focused proposals to win more deals.

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In November 2021, BQ magazine - the bid & proposal industry's premier magazine worldwide – presented Jon with their inaugural Outstanding Achievement Award for his writing in the publication.

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We're delighted to announce Strategic Proposals won the the top prize at the 17th Annual International Business Awards®.

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It's time for the annual strategic Proposals spring webinar series! Three fantastic sessions to join.  All are advertised on our LinkedIn page and mean you can sign up :)

If you can't attend one or more, they will be recorded and put on here when they are complete - so you can always watch it later!

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Mairi is an industry bid and proposal professional for us at Strategic Proposals and is chair of the APMP UK chapter for 2022. Wonderful news!

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Our team of specialists continues to grow, and we're excited to welcome Tim Syme as the latest member. 

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Win a year of free training and development from SP with our Rising Stars awards 2022.

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​An interactive "podcast" type event with bite-sized hints, tips and tricks that our Proposal Managers learnt in lockdown. This looks at lessons through 2 lenses; work and personal.

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Check out the upcoming dates for all our award-winning APMP certification courses: Foundation, Practitioner & Capture Practitioner. <NOSHOW>

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Our annual December round-up this year looks back on a year where we all faced unprecedented challenges.

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Recognising those who have demonstrated extraordinary commitment to proposal management best practice.

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Our new SP Bursary Scheme will help job seekers, apprentices and those working for charities or social enterprises. 

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Strategic Proposals scoop top prize as world's best "Corporate & Community - Customer Engagement Event"



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Three months into the first lockdown, we wondered how the coronavirus crisis was affecting UK bid and proposal professionals. 

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