Crown Partners was created to help businesses do more than simply bid for public sector contracts.
We identify where the genuine opportunities exist, determine the routes businesses need to access them, prepare organisations to compete and support them through the process of winning.
Our results demonstrate what that looks like in practice.
Framework applications can represent months of preparation and, for many traditional frameworks, an unsuccessful submission can mean waiting several years for another opportunity to apply.
Over the last 12 months, 100% of the framework submissions managed by Crown Partners have successfully secured a place on the relevant framework.
We don't believe that success starts when somebody begins writing the tender.
It starts much earlier: understanding the opportunity, assessing whether an organisation is genuinely capable of competing, identifying potential barriers and ensuring the business is ready before the procurement begins.
100% success rate. No unsuccessful framework submissions during the period.
Based on completed framework award decisions for submissions managed by Crown Partners during the preceding 12 months.
Finding tenders isn't difficult.
Finding the right opportunities for a particular business is considerably more valuable.
Our research identifies more than £200 million of genuine live public sector opportunity for our clients every quarter.
These aren't generic procurement alerts sent indiscriminately to hundreds of businesses.
We research the market against the capabilities, geography, capacity and commercial objectives of the organisations we represent to identify opportunities that warrant serious consideration.
Crown Partners' research has covered more than £1 trillion of advertised public sector framework opportunity since 2020.
Our research spans major procurement organisations including:
This gives us extensive visibility of the procurement routes through which public bodies purchase technology, professional services, construction, healthcare, recruitment, facilities management and numerous other goods and services.
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Though Crown Partners itself is a new brand, our experience in public sector business development collectively spans more than 20 years.
During that time, we have worked across the public sector market and represented organisations ranging from SMEs to consultancy businesses approaching £1 billion in scale.
We possess deep understanding of buyers, commercial strategy, frameworks, competition, compliance, market positioning, business development, and bidding.
Crown Partners brings those disciplines together and seeks to do what others do not: take ANY UK business and develop them into a public sector supplier.
In fact, Crown Partners was born from a frustration of experience at other consultancies. Everywhere we went, we found organisations would choose to maximise their own growth and profit sometimes at the expense of clients; promoting frameworks that may not have been the right fit, though they may have still had relevance, but taking a commodity view on frameworks as a whole and thus selling a service to whoever fit the profile, even if in the smallest sense.
We found that almost no client was given a proper review ahead of bidding a framework, there was little to no understanding of that businesses growth plan, or their current state of compliance except to check whether they possessed the most basic of mandatory requirements. Other than that no such assessment exisited. Similarly, almost no post-framework-award support was ever provided in any structured way. The best we had experienced was some nominal guidance from one individual to another, with no actual investment in that businesses long term success.
This frankly made it impossible for us (the people behind Crown Partners) to carry on. And the only way we felt we could deliver a full end-to-end service where we would take a supplier from never having considered public sector to winning deals, was to start something on our own, and here we are.
There are excellent bid writers and bid consultancies in the UK.
But a perfectly written bid for the wrong opportunity is still the wrong opportunity.
Crown Partners was built around a broader question:
That means looking beyond the tender itself.
We help businesses understand the market available to them, identify where they can realistically compete, establish the right routes to market, prepare for future procurements, identify live opportunities and then compete effectively when the right opportunity arrives.
Our objective is to win more of the right business.
100%
Framework success rate over the last 12 months
£200m+
Live public sector opportunity identified for our clients every quarter
£1tn+
Advertised framework opportunity researched since 2020
20+ years
Public sector experience
£1bn
Scale of consultancy organisations represented during our careers
The UK public sector represents an enormous commercial market.
But knowing how much government spends isn't enough.
You need to know what it buys that you can provide, who buys it, how they buy it, when opportunities will arise and what your organisation needs to do to win them.
That's where Crown Partners comes in.
Talk to us about your public sector growth ambitions.
We believe commercial claims should be capable of being substantiated.
The 100% framework success rate relates to completed framework submissions managed by Crown Partners during the preceding 12 months for which an award decision has been received.
The £200m+ figure represents the value of genuine live public sector contract and procurement opportunities identified through Crown Partners' research for clients during a typical quarter.
The £1tn+ figure represents a rounded estimate of cumulative advertised framework opportunity researched since 2020. Further information on its calculation and the underlying public procurement market is available on our UK Public Sector Procurement Statistics page.
References to 20+ years of experience and organisations approaching £1bn in scale relate to the professional experience of the Crown Partners team and its leadership, including experience prior to the establishment of Crown Partners.