Decision Analysis Services

A management and technical consultancy operating principally in the defence sector for government and industry. The company provides high value support to clients engaged in the procurement of defence equipment, facilities and services, together with working for a number of major blue-chip commercial companies.

Bid Support

Bid support is a core company capability and describes our ability to provide clients with support when bidding for equipment and non-equipment programmes.

DAS personnel bring a depth of experience from working on a wide range of successful bids over the past thirty years. DAS personnel have a significant range of experience of the UK defence market providing them with an insight and understanding into bidding for equipment and non- equipment programmes.

Through the capability and experience of our core staff and associates DAS can provide clients with a range of services to those who are bidding for defence equipment programmes.

The DAS bid support capability covers:

• Requirement evaluation – provision of support to clients in the evaluation of the technical and programme requirements. DAS is able to deploy staff with specific domain knowledge to support clients.
  
  
• Bid/ No Bid Decisions – to support the client senior management to decide on whether to bid or no-bid a requirement.
  
  
• Story Boarding – to support clients in the development of story boards.
  
  
  
• Bid Documentation – preparation of bid documentation. Through the use of core staff and associates DAS can strengthen a client’s bid team.
  
  
• Bid Review Panels – provision of staff to be members of Black Hat and Red Team review panels. DAS can deploy staff with a range of skills and we work with our clients to match individual staff to the project requirements.
  

• Business Case – DAS personnel are able to support clients in the development of business cases which form a key part of MoD bid evaluation process.
  
  
• Independent Assessments - the evaluation of bid requirements, assessment of UK MoD bid documentation and independent assessment of bid material, using personnel who have taken part in MoD bid evaluation teams.
  

Track Record of Success

DAS personnel have successfully completed a variety of bid support tasks for major clients.

These have included:

• The provision of Black Hat and RED team members for a major AFV equipment programme.
  
  
• The provision of a RED team member for a major project management support contract.
  
  
• Evaluation of documentation for a client in support of a significant acquisition programme.
  
  
• Evaluation of trends in UK defence expenditure and advice on future equipment programmes for non UK companies bidding into the UK.
  
  
• Advice to clients on the UK MoD bidding and bid review process.