Large deal · what if

What if you were in the room eighteen months before the tender?

A fifty-million deal is shaped long before anyone writes a tender. Five things that put you in the room.

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The countdown. One line from eighteen months out to tender day, with the chair at the end. Each what-if plants you earlier on the line.

Month eighteen

What if you knew which tender was coming, eighteen months before it was written?

The client says it in plain sight: a strategy day, an annual report, a hire with a telling title. Someone has to be reading.

TodayThe pursuit starts when the document arrives.

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Three in the room

What if three of your people were in the room while the requirements were shaped?

Your CEO, your industry head, your pursuit lead. Three people, a year early. Not fifty.

TodayFifty people arrive at month nine.

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Four conversations

What if your CEO and their CEO had spoken four times before procurement opened the file?

A conference, a dinner, a note after results, a call after an appointment. None of them a pitch.

TodayThe first conversation is the bid presentation.

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The shape already set

What if the bid team arrived to find the shape already set?

Scope, success criteria, the price logic: settled in the rooms above, months before. The fifty confirm. They do not guess.

TodayThe bid team guesses the shape from the tender.

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What the three learned

What if the hundred people on your bid knew what the three had learned?

A year of conversations on one page. The hundred write to what the client said, not to what the document asks.

TodayThe bid team writes from the tender.

And thenThe chair is filled before the tender is issued.

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How it works

Agents watch and prepare. Your people decide.

When something happens in the account, one of your people gets one thing ready to say, to one person. They write it or they do not. Nothing is sent that a person did not choose to send.

Three questions sit on every prepared line: will this help them, are the facts right, is this the right time.

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Watch

Their results days, their appointments, their announcements, and what your own people inside report.

Prepare

One line, one name, one reason, ready for the right person on your side.

Decide

Your people write it or they do not. Most days the answer is nothing today.

Five minutes a day for you. Most days, nothing today.

One question for Monday

On our biggest live pursuit, who was in the room before the requirements were written?

Ask the pursuit lead. If the answer is the bid manager, that is the answer.