“I am pleased to advise you that Refugee Action has just been awarded the Home Office Assisted Voluntary Return contract for which your company provided bid writing training and consultancy services.

As I am sure you are aware, the award of this £18 million contract, in a financially challenging climate, is a significant achievement for the organisation. I am writing to thank you for the part that your organisation played in making this a reality.

It is clear that the outcome-focused pragmatic approach brought by you and your team, both in terms of training provision and consultancy, ensured that our bid reflected the client’s needs as clearly and directly as possible.

The training helped to provide the bid writing team with a wide range of tools that I am confident ensured we were able to present our proposal in the very best light possible. The support provided through consultancy enabled Refugee Action to further refine both the content and the presentation of our bid.”

This was a thoroughly worthwhile day.

It is telling that the next time a tender discussion took place, the whole management team had their course literature with them and were able to talk in the same language.

This has given us a template to follow, and I am sure will add to the value and success of our organisation.

“We needed to evaluate our effectiveness in respect of responding to major ITTs. Were we applying best practice? Did we qualify tenders so as to identify likely winners? How certain were we that we understood the needs and requirements of the funding body? Were we demonstrating value for money?

These and many other questions were in my mind when we sought external professional advice.

After assessing three potential consultancies, Carrley Business Consulting were by far the most impressive. An immediate rapport was established with them, together with an understanding of our business needs. The evaluation process was quick and effective, and the workshops and best practice checklists were of immediate benefit and applicability.

A first-rate job!”

“Carrley Business Consulting has advised and undertaken a significant project relating to ECITB’s procurement activities and processes.

The project has been very successful, and ECITB is pleased with the outcome. The new system will ensure that ECITB approaches the complicated area of public procurement in a manner which ensures the organisation achieves value for money and complies with the relevant governmental and legal requirements.

I have no hesitation in recommending Carrley Business Consulting, in view of its expertise and high quality of work.”

Carrley Business Consulting has really helped our organisation move forward in what has been an incredibly difficult market.

Their consultant was extremely professional and personable and his hands on style was greatly appreciated by our whole team.

It has been just three months since our Planning Workshop, and we are already beginning to see significant positive changes taking place in our business.

“Steve Carroll of Carrley Business Consulting Ltd undertook a consulting assignment to help me prepare a bid document and proposal to raise a significant amount of public business support funding to help the SME manufacturing sector.

His strategic input, guidance and expertise really helped me accelerate the whole process and get real clarity around my core objectives. His attentive personality, his methodology, and his professional manner means that Steve is a pleasure to work with. He quickly got me to exactly where I needed to be, with an excellent outcome.

Needless to say, I would highly recommend his professional consulting services.” 

“I wanted to thank you for providing The Children’s Society business development unit with a well-developed and supportive training programme.

I was particularly pleased with the way you conducted a thorough needs analysis before planning the content. This meant the day was both targeted and efficient use of the time available.

Your facilitator was professional and engaging and provided a fast-paced and enjoyable day for the whole team and delivered the content very effectively. It is to his credit that every participant commented positively about the day and it has acted as a defining moment in our team development.

Thank you. I look forward to working with you in the future.”

“We have been very impressed with the service received from Carrley Business Consulting and in the professional manner with which they conducted themselves.

We have had substantial benefit from their input, and this has paid off with us being selected number 1 and 2 out of 197 contractors on the scoring system used by our client.

In each case  they drove the project to ensure we kept to timescales and were very proactive in this critical area. I would have no hesitation recommending them to other clients and we most certainly will be using them in the very near future.”

“I am writing to thank you and your colleagues for supporting NKS to win its recent competitive tender. The latter has, we are delighted to say, been successful with a published upper Framework Agreement value of £4.8 million over the next five years.

We were particularly impressed here with your ability to analyse our business, its core processes, strengths, and unique factors and reflect these throughout the tender. All of this was, of course, done remotely and with minimum impact on our essential day-to-day work.

We also appreciate the professional advice provided throughout the tender writing process and your subsequent support in handling further documentation issued by the Housing Association.

Many thanks again and we will certainly use the services of Carrley Business in the future.”

“We are pleased to inform you that our company has been successful in our recent tendering process. Thank you to you and your team for the professional and efficient service that Carrley Business has provided.

You offered sound, clear advice in a way that enabled us to understand the procedures required. It was very helpful and supportive to be able to talk to you directly and have questions and queries answered quickly and knowledgeably. You guided us through the process so that deadlines were met with the minimum of anxiety.

Your whole approach enabled us to have ownership of the documentation so that it was fully reflective of our company style and ethos. This is something that is very important to us.”