Write a better bid
with Dorothy Walker
Dorothy Walker brings award-winning journalism skills to her role as a bid editor and writer.
She has helped winning bidders to secure some of Europe's largest infrastructure contracts.
When every word counts, Dorothy adds an extra dimension to a skilled bid team - an experienced journalist who can focus on developing clear, concise messages and convincing copy, on time.
The national Press is the most testing of training grounds, and Dorothy knows how to come up to speed quickly on new projects, rapidly mastering the important details and capturing the essence of products and ideas.
Bylines and business experience
Dorothy Walker has been a professional writer for 29 years. She was voted National Newspaper Technology Journalist of the Year and has contributed to The Times, The Sunday Times, The Independent, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, The Scotsman, Evening Standard and Mail on Sunday. She has been a regular columnist for the Times Educational Supplement and wrote a science and technology column for Saga Magazine.
Dorothy is author of Education in the Digital Age, a front-line report on the impact of IT in education. She is a member of The Society of Authors.
Her early career was in financial IT in the City of London, in business development and marketing. She is a founder and Director of the consultancy Boston Morgan.
Dorothy is Prime Warden of the Worshipful Company of Basketmakers and a Trustee of the Basketmakers Charitable Trust. She is a Director and Under Warden Elect of the Guild of Freemen of the City of London and Chair of the Guild's Membership Committee. She is Chair Elect of the Scottish Castles Association and has served as Deacon of the Incorporation of Wrights, heading the Glasgow-based charity.
Practical help every step of the way
Interviews and workshops
Dorothy’s incisive working sessions capture the facts, draw out competitive differences and develop ideas. They make best use of limited bid time – a productive way to agree messages and map out written responses.
Writing
Dorothy writes fluent responses from scratch, in collaboration with a wide range of contributors. She is skilled at working with joint bidders, blending their complementary strengths into a compelling narrative.
Reviewing and editing
Dorothy is a constructive reviewer, demonstrating in detail how to improve drafts to earn more marks. She considers readability, subject matter and style, and her brief can include redrafting with the authors.
Editorial desk
Dorothy provides editorial guidance on how to produce a polished, highly professional submission that tells a winning story. As Editor-in-Chief she has led the writing team on successful joint venture bids.
Compliments from clients ...
A fantastic bid writer, who usually performs a manager type role in the sense that you can give her a section to manage, write and organise and she is extremely capable of extracting the right information from individuals while integrating win themes and differentiators.
Having worked on numerous projects with Dorothy, I can highly recommend the quality of bid writing and the added value that she provides.
Now that the storm is over, I wanted to express a huge thanks for all your help. It is thanks to your hard, good and proactive work that we managed to get our text in order, in time, and that our designs 'read' as attractively as they look.
My comments are simply that this is excellent. I wish I could have written it myself.
A key strength for this submission was Dorothy Walker, who took on a far bigger role than bid editor in working long hours to gather the individual responses into a structured and integrated answer to the questions.
I always find working with you to be very inspiring, rewarding and good fun.
You turned my responses into a fantastic story.
Can I say how impressed I am with your grasp of such a complex issue in so short a time. Well done.
I am immensely grateful for your hard work and firm direction in keeping us on a straight pair of tracks.