Tender writing, tender templates and tender toolkits for Australian businesses

Hi, I’m Kristine Daw. I’m a Melbourne tender writer who has spent 25 years helping Australian small and medium businesses win the tenders that matter to them. I’m here to support you, whether you want practical tender templates and tools you can use yourself, or one to one tender writing and tender strategy services delivered personally by me.

After hundreds of winning submissions and a 75 percent win and shortlisting rate, I’ve built Dawtek into a practical home for the tender templates, tender resources and tender writing services that put professional tender writing within reach of any Australian business owner.

Honest before we start, honest throughout

I won’t take on a tender I don’t believe in. If your business doesn’t have a real chance, I’ll tell you before we commit. If you do, I’ll give it everything I have. Fixed fees, quoted in writing before we start, every time.

Free download. Friendly Guide To Tendering

For Australian businesses, everything you need to know to start tendering. How to decide whether to bid, the 10 things every winning submission needs, the common mistakes that quietly cost contracts, and how to use AI safely along the way.

Browse the Tools and Templates

Plain English, industry-specific tender response templates for Australian industries. Around 50 pages each. Ready to download and customise.

Browse the Tender Toolkits

Toolkits to enhance your tenders. Three practical tender toolkits that cover the foundation work every tendering business has to do.

Tender Writing with Kristine

When a tender genuinely matters and a template alone isn’t the right answer. Tender writing services, tender strategy sessions, tender review, tender library, tender training and specialist not for profit tender writing. Directly delivered by me, every time.

Who I support

Most of the Dawtek templates and toolkits are built for Australian small and medium businesses. My one-to-one services scale from sole traders bidding on a first government tender, through mid-market firms growing into structured tendering, up to national corporations and government agencies running concurrent tender programmes. The discipline is the same at every scale. The standard is the same at every scale. The support is the same too.

Sole traders and small businesses tendering for the first time
Established Australian small businesses moving from word of mouth to procurement driven work
Mid market firms ready to build in house tender capability
Corporates and government agencies running complex, multi stage tender submissions
Not for profit and social enterprise organisations across every major Australian funding line

About Kristine

Twenty five years of tender writing for Australian businesses of every size. Every industry, from construction and infrastructure to aged care and not for profit. A senior Australian tender writer on every page from start to finish, plus the practical Dawtek templates and toolkits that bring the same discipline within reach of small business owners doing it themselves.

Australian industries I support

Construction and infrastructure. Health and aged care. Disability and community services. Facilities management. Cleaning and security. Not for profit and social enterprise. Recruitment. Professional services. Event management. Food and beverage. Education. Defence. IT and managed services. Landscaping and grounds maintenance. Allied health. Translation and interpreting. Electrical, plumbing and earthworks. And many more.

What our clients are saying

Working with Kristine was (and is) amazing. She ‘got’ us and our organisational context and our values so quickly, it was like she had known us for years! Kristine’s ability to very quickly ascertain the context of what we were writing about and the key points of difference that would help set us in front of competing panellists was insightful, fast, strategic and straight to the point.

Donna Cross | Director & General Manager,Culturally Directed Care Solutions (CDCS)

“Kristine was referred to us as the best in the business, and wow they were right! Her knowledge, professionalism and nothing is too much trouble attitude is outstanding. Kristine went above and beyond for us, successfully winning us our first ever tender. I cannot thank her enough for all she has done for our business in a short period of time!!”

Lisa Soliman | Sleek Print Management Pty Ltd

“Hi, just wanted to thank you for the amazing business proposal you prepared for us in such a short timeframe. We are so pleased that we decided to work with you. We had heard some pretty amazing things about you and your work and now know they are all true.”

Michelle McCall | Larrakia Nation Aboriginal Corporation

“I don’t need a tender writer.” If you had asked me a year ago, that’s what I would’ve told you. If you were to ask me now I would tell you, hands-down, that I don’t need just any tender writer; I need Kristine Daw from Dawtek. I talked to a number of companies when I made the foray into outsourcing. They were five to seven times more expensive than Kristine. They were clearly going to make me do all the work and then shove me to their junior intern to manage. By comparison, Kristine was a dream to work with. She was proactive and personable and she was our direct contact the whole way through. She went above and beyond and did much more than she was paid for. She made the process simple and easy. Most importantly, we have had 100% success rate with her and I’m excited to work with Kristine on many more tenders in future.”

Christine Clarke | Studio 55

“Big thanks to Kristine Daw for exceptional work on our application. Her expertise in government procurement was invaluable in helping us articulate our lived experience approach effectively. It fells like a lifetime ago that we worked on this together but we got there!”

Frontline Mental Health

Hi Kristine, just a quick note to say thank you so much for preparing our recent tender submission . We have been successful and works started Saturday.

Jenny

“I just wanted to update you and let you know that I have been approved as a preferred tenderer for Parks Victoria. They were supposed to get back to me in September last year but have just emailed me today. I wanted to thank you for all your help!"

Nadia

"As a small business owner the whole process was extremely daunting. The team at Dawtek gave my words meaning and structure, without losing the original tone. I am confident that my submission will be a success "

Worksite Solutions

"Thank you very much for your informative 1:1 tender writing training session this morning. Your professional advice, guidance, and support along with the detailed provision of tools and templates to prepare my own personalised tender document are so greatly appreciated"

Raine & Horne Keysborough