BIRMINGHAM CHILDREN'S TRUST COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY

How to win their contracts

Measured from BIRMINGHAM CHILDREN'S TRUST COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY's own published record — no estimates, no generic advice.

• Plan for about 22 days to prepare a bid — that is the median gap between publication and deadline across 8 of their tenders.
• They publish about 3.0 tenders a month, measured over 7 months of history.
• Half of the tenders where they publish a value are estimated at £540k or less.
• Most of their buying falls in health and social work services, education and training services, business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing, security.
• Their most frequent suppliers are Barnardo's (2) — expect to bid against incumbents who already know this buyer.