Staff & Associates

FIONA BRUNTON
Performance and outcomes focused, Fiona is a specialist in providing customised tender writing services to the recruitment industry, specifically:

  • 19 years' operational and business development experience in recruitment agencies with specific responsibility for winning new business through constructing successful proposals, tenders and presentations and participating in e-auctions.
  • 6 years working freelance, helping smaller recruitment businesses to compete with the "big boys".
  • Preferred supplier of tender writing services to the Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC) and Service Provider to the Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo) and The Employment Agents Movement (TEAM).
  • Extensive track record of winning new business at all levels from operational to executive, temporary, contract and permanent in the public, private and third sectors.
  • Demonstrable experience of developing policies and other supporting documentation / templates required for successful tendering.

ARLEEN HULL
Arleen has in excess of 25 years' experience in the recruitment industry of which 18 have been spent in business development (primarily bid and tender writing).  She has managed all stages of the bid process including obtaining the client brief; writing PQQs, tenders and presentations; contract negotiation and implementation of new service delivery mechanisms including Master Vendor, RPO, Vendor Neutral and PSLs.

In the last few years, Arleen has focused primarily on writing public sector tenders with huge success, winning business with values from £500k - £17 million for permanent, contract and temporary PSLs and Master Vendor contracts.  Arleen also has hands-on operational experience which is invaluable when putting together bids that are actually deliverable in reality!

JOHN AKAM
John has 18 years recruitment experience (both operational and sales) across numerous market sectors - Industrial, Commercial, Call Centre, Construction, M&E, Technical, Engineering, Education and Health.  His focus for the last 10 years has been on national sales, bid management and completion of tender documents for recruitment agencies, including:

  • Production of quality RFP, RFI, PQQ, and ITT documentation to meet challenging client deadlines.
  • Strong understanding of recruitment pricing methodologies.
  • Extensive knowledge of business implementation and account management.
  • Demonstrable experience of working with Vendor Neutral, Master Vendor, Managed Service, Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) organisations.
  • Track record of winning profitable and deliverable new business through the tender process within the recruitment sector.

Testimonials

  • Following a highly complex and technical tender exercise, we have now been awarded a contract with our local ...

    Robert Thompson Robert Thompson - Acting Managing ...

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  • For the last 20 years, we have supplied niche legal recruitment services to law firms in London and have become experts ...

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  • Having worked with Brunton Bid Writing regularly over the last 6 months, we have found Fiona and her team to ...

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  • Fiona Brunton's tender writing service has added key value to the expansion strategy of our company.  The business ...

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  • Having used an outside company to help in in the tendering porocess in the past and repeatedly failed to get through ...

    Stephen Nickson Stephen Nickson - Managing Director, ...

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  • Active Solutions has utilised the experience and skills of Fiona and Arleen during the last two years to enable us to ...

    Anton Muller Anton Muller - Managing Director, ...

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  • Fiona is the leading tender writer for the recruitment sector.  Working to a very short deadline, Fiona put ...

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  • Thank you for your help in preparing our tender response - it proved totally invaluable and we would not have won the ...

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  • We have tried a number of external resources to assist in our tendering with little success, so we are absolutely ...

    Judy Freeman Judy Freeman - Director, Monarch ...

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  • Fiona has worked with Equal Approach in the successful preparation of a number of high profile bids and ...

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  • We are a specialist niche provider of Sales, Marketing, Advertising Operations and Research professionals in the niche ...

    Vivek Nath Vivek Nath - Managing Director, ...

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  • When SGL Solutions was formally invited to tender for one of the largest Building Societies in the UK, we were ...

    Lewis Greene Lewis Greene - Managing Director, ...

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  • We have used Brunton Consultancy to assist us in writing tender documents and presentations on a regular basis since ...

    Mark Bettridge Mark Bettridge - Managing Director ...

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  • We discovered the service of Fiona Brunton with only a week to go to the deadline of a tender for a major national ...

    Sally Lelliott Sally Lelliott - Managing Director, ...

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  • I just wanted to say thank you for your assistance with our recent PSL pitch and to let you know that we have been ...

    Gillon Tadman Gillon Tadman - Director, ...

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  • Morgan Hunt is an award winning recruitment consultancy that provides specialist staff into the public sector.  We ...

    Helen Stokes Helen Stokes - Director, Morgan ...

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  • From our first contact with Fiona we were impressed with her quick response in providing us with support on our tender ...

    Peter Mukono Peter Mukono - Managing Director, ...

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  • We regularly use Brunton Consultancy for tender writing support.  Bid writing is incredibly time consuming for us, ...

    Ken Wood Ken Wood - Director, Network ...

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  • We recently used the services of Brunton Consultancy to produce a recruitment tender for a prestigious, high value ...

    Claire  Haggar Claire Haggar - Director, Ambitions ...

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  • When one of our most valuable clients announced that they were going to go through a formal tender process to review ...

    Sheila O'Driscoll Sheila O'Driscoll - Managing Director, ...

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  • I have worked with Fiona whenever we have had a tender opportunity since January 2010 with excellent results.  We ...

    Danny Corr Danny Corr - Managing Director, ...

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  • It was a pleasure to work with Brunton Bid Writing.  I found Fiona’s bid writing skills, pure ...

    Marc Harding Marc Harding - Director, Driving ...

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