Welcome to Bids Design.

My goal is to help you grow your business through winning tenders.

Since 2022, I’ve been helping businesses like yours construct core messages and themes in a simplified manner. A bit about me:

  • I am a creative writerand I have been doing this for 15 years.
  • I have a visual arts background in filmmaking, photography, and graphic design.
  • I am adept at project managing teams of people from the brief to the finished product.
  • I have a BA in Creative Writing from RMIT, and Foundation Certification from APMP.

I look forward to Bid Design helping you win your next tender.

Declan Veale
0413 020 685

writer@declanveale.com  |  Download my CV

Experience

I have had exposure to markets across every state/territory of Australia, as well as tenders from leading global brands. My experience is in writing tenders for the following sectors:

  • Accommodation: Apartments, Student Villages

  • Commercial: High rise, low rise

  • Community: Disability Services, Employment Services

  • Construction: Retail fitouts

  • Education: Universities, Private Schools, Outside School Hours Care

  • Facilities Management: Cleaning and maintenance

  • Government: LGAs , WOAG

  • Health: Hospitals, Clinics

  • Industrial: Warehouse, food processing

  • Transport: Airports, Trams, Trains

  • Utilities: Water

Skills

Attention to detail: Never had a non-compliant tender. I am dedicated to ensuring I answer everything correctly, in a manner that satisfies the prospect and gets shortlisted.

Concise writing: I will extract the core message for each topic, and can write to any word length. My preference is to keep each topic to a page for better flow and less bulk.

CVs: I have written short form bios and 1 page CVs for over 50 client-facing employees directly from interviews and questionnaires. These can be personalised for each client.

Desktop Publishing: I am an advanced user of the Microsoft Office suite, and can improve your document design, from layout, formatting paragraphs and text, introducing styles guides and colour palettes, and troubleshooting.

Graphic Design: Can drastically improve the flow of information and draw in the reader. Examples include Org Charts, Transition Plans, Complaints Procedures made to look sleek through Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign.

Interviewing: The best source of information is often from the SMEs themselves. Rather than dredging through old tenders, my investigative journalism and personable ability to talk to anyone has landed the best tender responses and future content.

Knowledgebase building: I have built HTML content libraries for companies which streamlines the tender process via improved availability of information and search functions. It has dramatically improved tender quality by scrutinising the components of every question  rather than the tender as a whole.

Maps coverage: Nothing demonstrates your capacity better than it visualised. I can create maps of your coverage, with featured information to impress the client.

Proofreading: I’m the kind of editor that will always request changes. Everything can always do with revision from another set of eyes.