Career: Alison has been a bid specialist since 2009, successfully leading deals from £50k to over £2bn across both public and private sectors. Alison has worked within a global and then national property firm and quickly became a Director and Head of Bid Team, taking the business from a 45% to 75%-win rate and generating additional revenue by charging out the bid function to struggling clients. It was a short time later that Alison set up Mozer.

Bid highlights: Some of Alison’s favourite projects include winning the redevelopment of a £2.5bn high profile redevelopment in her home town of York, securing the CAT B Fit Out of Google KGX, and leading the Turkish Football Federation’s dossier submission to UEFA to host EURO 2024.

Interests: Alison can often be found with her head in a business book or listening to a personal growth podcast. She loves to exercise, socialise, and see the world afresh through the eyes of her young son.

Social value: Alison is a volunteer litter picker for her local council. Since 2012, she has also been a regular volunteer with the Salvation Army where she serves hot meals to those in need, sells snacks at festivals to raise funds for community projects, and helps to whip up 40 meals on Christmas Day each year for those who would otherwise have spent the day alone.

Career: Charlotte has over 15 years of experience as a bid professional, successfully writing and managing highly complex private and public sector bids within the built environment. Over her career, Charlotte has secured contracts ranging from £50k up to £350 million within sectors such as local authorities, rail, utilities, nuclear and MoD.

Charlotte adopts a structured and methodical approach to every tender, with a meticulous eye for detail, her excellent proofreading and editing skills ensure that bids are professionally presented and in line with the tender requirements.

Bid highlights: Charlotte’s favourite bid was for the Houses of Parliament Restoration and Renewal Framework covering disciplines such as civil and structural engineering, geotechnical, archaeology in addition to asbestos removal. A technically challenging and highly complex bid, Charlotte coordinated and planned early to help secure a successful result.

Interests: Charlotte loves spending time with her family and friends. A keen traveller, she is always looking for new places to explore with her children. Her favourites include Australia, Cala D’or and Greece. To unwind, Charlotte enjoys cooking new dishes, particularly chinese and mexican food.

Social Value: Charlotte is an advocate for children’s mental health and regularly volunteers at events that raise money and awareness. In addition to working with mental health charities, Charlotte is currently training to complete the three peaks challenge to raise money for Alzheimers.

Career: Janine is a built environment professional with 16 years’ experience in land and development, business development, bid writing and management. Across roles with national housebuilders, Local Authorities and Registered Providers, Janine has led development projects with a GDV of up to £1bn and won over £500m in new business. An academic grounding in literature, urban regeneration and strategic planning underpins Janine’s ability to communicate effectively, build relationships understand stakeholder priorities and convey complex detail concisely and effectively.

Business development highlights: With a skill for growing commercial relationships and identifying new markets, Janine increased industry CPD for a London-division of a national placemaking developer by 300%, and personally delivered 5.5x her share of all industry attendees for the division’s two main 2022 London BD events. She also grew a northern-counties-focussed national housebuilder’s profile in London, building relationships with Future of London, London First and NLA, heightening industry exposure and increasing appeal to public sector partners.

Bid highlights: Among Janine’s top tender wins are a £400m, multi-phase, four-hectare brownfield site delivering 1,000+ new homes and 9,300 sq.ft of non-residential space in RB Kingston, won for Countryside Partnerships following a 10-month multi-stage competition including three other national developer finalists. Janine has also produced successful bid submissions securing multiple developers places on procurement frameworks for NHHG, Clarion and the GLA’s LDP2.

Interests: Janine’s love of design and the built environment means Janine can often be found photographing brutalist buildings, completing her LSoH landscaping course, and designing additions to her never-ending house renovation. She has lived in five countries across three continents, and when not covered in mud or paint, links her love of music and travel by booking tickets to gigs in cities yet to be visited.

Social value: Janine is a Board member for the Community Interest Company Women in Social Housing (WISH)and encourages female talent in the industry. As well as lecturing to MA Urban Regeneration students over a five-year period, she enjoys speaking at educational events. Janine’s interest in the intersectionality of physical, social, and economic development factors has led to volunteering for homelessness and research organisations in Oxford, Saint-Louis, and Yerevan, as well as community litter picking and placemaking initiatives in London.

Career: Kim is an experienced marketing communications professional who brings a strong background in bid writing and bid management for architecture and interior design. Since 2006, Kim has written and coordinated bids for significant projects up to $1bn (£700m). She also has an academic background in urban planning, rounding out a broad understanding of the intersections of policy, urban and town development, and the built environment.

Bid highlights: Among Kim’s favourite wins are a 600,000 sq ft high-rise biomedical research building for Northwestern University in Chicago, won after an eight-month multi-stage design competition, and a multi-million-dollar healthcare campus transformation project at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, IL, USA.

Interests: Kim is an avid traveller; her favourite destinations include South Korea, Norway, Malta, and Greece. When she’s not working or travelling, she spends as much time as possible going for hikes in the countryside, cooking, baking, reading, and listening to music.

Social value: Kim most recently served as an Associate Board member for Green Star Movement, a small non-profit that engages schools and communities to create public art in Chicago. She has also volunteered for Slow Food Chicago and the Centre on Halsted, an LGBT support organisation in Chicago.

Career: Andy has led the development and analysis of social value delivery and process effectiveness. He has guided a diverse range of property clients to evidence and manage their Impact programme from bid stage to delivery and monitoring. He leads Envoy’s work in regeneration and construction, community investment, operational strategies, health care and social prescribing, and procurement. He has sat on steering groups developing innovative models and sector-wide frameworks for Social Value delivery, including the UK Green Building Council, NHS West London Clinical Commissioning Group, and the Mayor of London. Clients have included Lendlease, Bellway, British Land, Hammerson Plc, Derwent London, Hill, Urban Splash, CBRE, Jones Lang LaSalle, and Great Portland Estates.

Bid highlights: Andy has supported property developers, REITs, and asset managers, to develop compelling social value programme delivery, towards securing new sites, contracts, and enhancement of book value. Three recent wins/site approvals total c.£900 million in long-term construction delivery, in Swansea, Birmingham, and East London, encompassing c.6,000 residential units, plus additional mixed-use, retail, and public realm amenities.

Interests: Andy enjoys swimming, offshore sailing, hiking mountains (preferably with a hip flask), heritage conservation skills, vintage posters/lithography c.1910s-1950s, and Eastern European poetry.

Social value: Andy is a trustee of PEDALL the disability cycling charity and is a British Red Cross Community Reserve Volunteer. He provides pro-bono impact measurement and management guidance to small charities supporting ethnic minority women’s health equality.

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