Graced Solutions Group partners with NSW builders, businesses and specialists to win government grants and tenders — then delivers the technical work that follows. One relationship, from application to outcome.
“The best businesses aren’t built on single wins — they’re built on relationships worth repeating.”
— Graced Solutions Group, founding principle
Graced Solutions Group was built on a simple idea: real success isn’t a single grant won or tender secured — it’s the relationship that keeps bringing builders, specialists and businesses back for the next opportunity, and the next. We close the gap between doing great work and winning the right to do more of it.
We work as a genuine partnership, from opportunity selection through to the delivery team that executes once the win is secured — backed by a vetted bench of grant writers, tender writers, and technical specialists across AI, data and digital delivery. Every engagement is built to be repeated, not just completed.
We help clients identify, qualify, pursue and deliver grant and tender opportunities — combining submission expertise with commercial strategy and project management, from the first scoping call to the last delivery milestone, through a single point of contact.
We monitor relevant grants and rebates and bring clients a prioritised shortlist — then apply a structured Readiness Assessment before a full submission is ever commissioned.
A Tender Readiness Assessment first — capability, compliance and competitiveness reviewed before you commit — then a bid built around the evaluation criteria, not around us.
AI, data and digital specialists delivering the pilot or platform once a grant or tender is secured.
Every opportunity is readiness-assessed before a client commissions a full submission — so effort only goes into applications with a genuine chance.
We bring sales, growth and go-to-market experience to every submission — strengthening the underlying business case, not just writing around it.
Grants and tenders through a single advisory relationship, backed by the same delivery bench once an opportunity is won.
Support continues after submission and after the outcome — mobilisation, reporting and delivery, not just a document handed over.
Government and corporate tenders are not grant applications with a different cover sheet. They are scored against published criteria, weighted on price and risk, and decided by evaluation panels who read dozens of submissions in a week.
WinTender is the arm of Graced Solutions Group built for exactly that work — from the bid/no-bid call through to contract mobilisation.
Capability without live opportunities is a brochure. A list of grants without the capability to win them is a bookmark. This is the capability — led by a writer with more than 13 years in government procurement and funding policy, including time as an assessor and panel member. That experience changes how the work is done: WinTender writes to what the criteria are really testing, not just what they literally say.
Criteria are written with intent, and the literal wording often masks the real question. A request for demonstrated community engagement is usually testing for evidence of ongoing partnership, not one-off consultation. We map each criterion to what the assessor is being asked to score, then answer both the stated and the implied question.
Large submissions draw on many contributors — program leads, engineers, finance, governance. Left alone, the result reads like a committee, and assessors detect it immediately. We extract content through structured interviews and consolidate everything into one voice, reviewed against the criteria before compilation.
For competitive rounds, description is not enough. We build the evidence base — white papers, policy briefs and needs analyses that make the case with government statistics, academic research and consultation data. One funding body has cited our white paper in its own annual report as an example of exceptional needs analysis.
Funders reward applicants who solve a visible government priority. We position each program as the answer to a policy problem the funder is accountable for, using language that mirrors the government’s own frameworks.
A winning tender is worthless if the contract erodes the margin. On tender engagements we review the draft contract clause by clause, identify obligations hidden in plain sight, and structure qualified responses and clarifications so they are resolved before signature.
Panels mix technical and non-technical assessors. We layer submissions so full technical detail is preserved in annexes for the specialists, while the scored narrative is written in plain language for everyone else.
142 applications competed for four funding rounds. The client had strong programs and a weak submission that described activity without proving need.
Awarded in the first round, ranked first on community need. Our supporting white paper was cited by the funding body in its annual report.
An innovation round weighted heavily toward novelty and scalability, which the client could not articulate for an established program.
Awarded. The program was subsequently adopted by the Department of Health as a model for regional aged care innovation.
The client’s compliant draft was ready to lodge. Our review found contract obligations not reflected in the pricing schedule, with margin erosion of up to 18 per cent.
Won the tender. Clause-by-clause review and qualified responses removed or capped $1.2 million in hidden exposure before signature — roughly eight times our fee.
Highly technical specifications, scored partly by non-technical evaluators. The client’s engineering content was incomprehensible to half the panel.
Shortlisted from 47 submissions and awarded. The panel singled out the clarity of the methodology at debrief.
A 12-person firm with strong credentials and no government procurement experience, whose draft was technically accurate but showed no value-add.
Awarded a government panel position. Within 18 months government work was 62 per cent of revenue, and the firm has been re-tendered and retained twice.
A community sports club that had never applied for government funding, with an informal draft at risk of desk rejection.
Awarded at first attempt, after we built the governance, program and financial management frameworks the application needed. The club has since secured two further grants.
| Cost factor | In-house senior writer | Engaging WinTender |
|---|---|---|
| Annual cost | $110,000–$160,000 plus superannuation | Project fee only |
| Utilisation | Typically 20–40%, because rounds are intermittent | You pay for output, not capacity |
| Peak load | One writer cannot cover simultaneous submissions | Team depth under one lead writer’s governance |
| Government experience | Must be hired, and is scarce | 13+ years of procurement and funding policy, built into every engagement |
| Research & white papers | Rarely within one person’s skill set | Standard for competitive rounds |
| Contract risk review | Rarely included | Standard on tender engagements |
A structured Readiness Assessment sits ahead of every full submission — so you decide to proceed, resolve a gap first, or hold for a better-fit round, before real cost is committed.
A complimentary conversation and a prioritised shortlist of live grant and tender opportunities that genuinely fit your business or project.
A fixed-fee Readiness Assessment against eligibility, evidence, delivery capability and competitiveness — ending in a clear proceed, resolve-first, or not-yet recommendation.
Our writing team prepares a complete, professional application or tender response, built against the funding body or evaluation panel’s own criteria — reviewed with you before submission.
We manage submission to deadline and keep you informed through assessment, right through to the outcome.
Once secured, our technical and fulfilment partners execute the work, with mobilisation, reporting and acquittal support — Graced Solutions Group accountable throughout.
Whether you’re a builder, specialist contractor, or business exploring a grant or tender opportunity — we’d love to hear from you.
Prefer email? Write to team@wintender.com.au directly.
We help clients pursue, compete for and manage grant and tender opportunities. Outcomes are determined by funding bodies and evaluation panels, not by us.