TENMANS.
Est. 2016 · Croatia
Renewables · Offshore wind · HV Cables · BESS

Tender and bid management experts.

TENMANS leads the bid — from opportunity to handover. We bring 20 years of senior tendering experience across offshore wind, subsea, oil & gas and battery storage, working closely alongside your team to shape, challenge and deliver stronger bids with clarity, focus and purpose.

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Clients
ReynardMundus PrimeRoyal Boskalis Westminster WTS EnergyFugro Survey
Track record in numbers
20+years in tendering
20offices served by one tender function
12+countries worked in
30largest tender team led
Why TENMANS

Tenders are often lost in the gaps between scope, pricing, commercial position and submission strategy.

TENMANS closes those gaps — working inside your team, on your systems, and taking ownership of the bid from strategy through submission.

Not advice from the sidelines. Hands-on bid leadership, focused on delivering a clear, competitive and complete offer.

Services

What TENMANS does on a tender.

01Opportunity
02Bid / no-bid
03Scope & strategy
04Pricing & BOQ
05Submission
06Award & handover

Tender & bid management

Ownership of the full bid lifecycle — opportunity to handover. Bid/no-bid, tender programme, clarification and deviation registers, pricing strategy, submission and handover to delivery.

Proposal writing & bid packages

The written submission itself: RFQ and ITT review, proposal drafting, bid package assembly, document control and the discipline that keeps a multi-party submission consistent under deadline.

Commercial & contract support

Scope and risk review, mark-ups against FIDIC and client-specific conditions, deviation positions and their commercial consequence, and support through clarification rounds to award.

Building the bid function

Standing up tendering as a capability, not a scramble: templates and bidding tools, tender process standardisation in CRM, team structure and governance. Delivered across a 20-office international organisation.

Track record

Selected assignments

Reynard · 2022 – present

Tender Manager — offshore wind cable termination & testing

Tender and bid management across multiple offshore wind farm cable termination and testing projects worldwide. Full bid process from opportunity to handover: proposal writing, bid package preparation, document management and project management support.

Sector Offshore windScope IAC & export cable T&TLocation Netherlands · worldwide
Mundus Prime DMCC · 2022 – present

Project & Proposal Engineer — offshore oil & gas

Bid management, project and contract document preparation, project planning and project engineering across international offshore projects. Comparable scope delivered for Maritime Construction Services B.V. (2020–2022).

Sector Oil & gas · OffshoreLocation UAE · Croatia · UK
Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. · 2016 – 2018

Project & Proposal Engineer — Offshore Subsea Rock Installation

Tender documents and proposals across the subsea rock installation business line, together with contract drafting and project procedure documents. Managed the bid process end to end.

Sector Offshore energy · SubseaLocation Netherlands
Battery energy storage developer, Netherlands · 2023 – 2024

Procurement & Tender Lead — BESS construction

Procurement process and tender preparation for the construction of a battery energy storage system: tender dossier, tender management, document control and project management support.

Sector Energy storageLocation Netherlands
EIB-financed infrastructure programme · 2018 – 2022

Key Expert — Procurement & Works Supervision

Key expert in a team of four on a €90m integrated environmental infrastructure programme financed by the European Investment Bank, responsible for procurement and construction supervision across new facilities, transfer stations, processing plants and a fleet of some 75 vehicles.

Programme value €90mFinancing European Investment Bank
WTS Energy B.V. · 2016 – 2022

Tender Manager & Consultant — global tendering across 20 offices

Responsible for the complete tendering process across an international organisation operating from 20 offices. Built the bidding tools and templates, standardised tender and quotation process in Salesforce, set up and led tender teams, and contributed to price calculations and T&C negotiation. Integration team leader during the company's acquisition.

Countries NL · RO · MX · USA · UAE · GA · NG · IQ · HR
Fugro Survey B.V. · 2014 – 2015

Tender Coordinator — offshore projects

Bid lifecycle management for offshore survey projects: tender documents and proposal writing, client communication, key account management, and project preparation and support.

Sector Offshore surveyLocation Netherlands
Capability

Sectors and specialisms

  • Offshore wind
  • HV cable termination & testing
  • Inter-array & export cable systems
  • Subsea rock installation
  • Offshore survey
  • Offshore oil & gas
  • Battery energy storage (BESS)
  • Marine & environmental infrastructure

How we engage

  • Embedded bid managerDay rate, on your systems, for the duration of the tender.
  • Fixed-fee bidAgreed scope, agreed price, one submission.
  • Bid review / red teamThree to five days on a submission you have already drafted.
  • RetainerContinuous tender and commercial support across a portfolio.
About
Robert Gorup, founder of TENMANS
Robert Gorup
Founder & Bid Manager

A tender is won or lost in the detail nobody wants to own.

TENMANS owns it. Twenty years of tendering, one person accountable from kick-off to award — professional engineer, FIDIC-certified, working independently since 2016 with contractors and developers in offshore energy, high-voltage cable systems and battery storage, with tender and proposal roles across Boskalis, Fugro and WTS Energy behind him.

The person who writes your bid is the one who answers for it. Not a junior. Not a template.

  • MSc Mining Engineering — University of Zagreb
  • FIDIC certified — 1999 conditions of contract & MDB harmonised construction contract
  • Tender teams led of up to 30 people, across projects in more than a dozen countries
  • English working language · Croatian native · Spanish working knowledge · native Dutch, German, Spanish and French speakers available through the TENMANS network
Contact

Let's talk about your next tender.

Tell me the scope and the submission date. That is usually enough to say whether it is one TENMANS should take on.

robert@tenmans.com
+385 99 399 1188
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Beli Manastir, Croatia
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Registered in the Croatian Trade Register, 07.02.2019