Award winning bid specialist AM Bid Services has increased turnover to £464,291 (73 per-cent up on last year) in its third year of trading, bolstering its workforce to seven including two key appointments to the senior management team.

Since the company was founded by Managing Director Andrew Morrison in 2014, AM Bid Services has increased its services from the core offering of bid and proposal writing to include masterclasses, training and bid strategy consultancy, expanding across over 20 sectors. Earlier this year, AM Bid Services was named High Growth Business of the Year 2017 and Small Business of the Year at the British Chambers of Commerce Awards regional finals.

The company has grown organically without any external support and is completely debt free, providing services to businesses across the UK, from FTSE 100 companies to SMEs and sole traders to help organisations deliver business growth.

Morrison appointed bidding and housing expert David Gray as Bid Development Director, and David Sole OBE as Non-Executive Chairman in March 2017 who brings with him a wealth of entrepreneurship experience.

Commenting on the company’s performance, Managing Director Andrew Morrison said: “The start-up scene is a crowded space in today’s business world, so it’s important to make your company stand out.

“I spotted a gap in the market in 2014 to help companies deliver business growth by creating winning bids and proposals. We have a strong workforce with a huge wealth of expertise which is expanding across the country, and I am committed to nurturing our younger members of staff to ensure they grow with the business.”

Non-Executive Chairman, David Sole added: “2017 has been another year of exceptional growth for AM Bid Services which is down to the hard work, dedication and expertise in the team that Andrew has put together. The business has an outstanding platform to build on for the coming year and is in a great position to capitalise on its place in the market as leading bid specialists.”

Office equipment specialist Capital Document Solutions has achieved record monthly sales of £2.4m.

Scotland’s largest independent supplier, Capital expects to record turnover of £24m for its March 2015 year-end. The business, which has operations in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee, Aberdeen, Inverness and Shetland, is targeting turnover of more than £30m by the end of 2016.

Capital has announced today it has achieved a record monthly sales figure of £2.4m – including new business worth £639,000.

These latest equipment contract wins will see Capital install 247 new multifunctional devices (MFDs) and print management software to businesses and organisations across the Scottish private and public sectors.

Additional service provision, including comprehensive national maintenance and training support, will add significantly to the value of these agreements over the next five years.

The business, which currently employs 205 staff across the country, is looking to add a further 20 people over the next 12 months to meet the growing demand for its products and services.

Tom Flockhart, founder and managing director of Capital Document Solutions, said: “The company has benefited from a high level of major contract wins for some time now which reflects the strength and depth of our product range and our reputation for delivering a very high level of customer service and support.

“We firmly believe that our knowledgeable and experienced team’s commitment to providing first-class customer service has been pivotal in the company’s ability to attract and retain leading businesses and public sector organisations.

“Our truly national sales and service cover and branch network across Scotland has enabled us to win many major public and commercial contracts and significantly grow our customer and machine base.

“The suite of products, combined with industry-leading print management software, offered by Capital can help clients significantly reduce the number of devices deployed for copy, print, scan and fax, control the output of their devices and achieve significant savings in operating costs, along with a reduction in their carbon footprint.”

The record monthly sales figures were for September. Capital provides photocopiers, printers, scanners and print management software with comprehensive national maintenance and training support.

It has won contracts with large organisations and businesses ranging from government bodies, local authorities, oil and gas companies, the voluntary sector and a wide spread of universities, colleges and independent schools.

In 2013, Capital acquired Inverness-based Highland Office Equipment and was re-appointed as a successful supplier on the Scottish Government’s National Framework Agreement for Office Equipment.

For further information visit: www.capital-solutions.co.uk