Meet the team.

The Tendup team is an energetic bunch, ever curious and looking for the best way to articulate a client’s capabilities in an engaging way.

Tendup Team

Kat Barter

Founder + Director

Jessica Fox

Proposal Manager + Writer

Sean Flannery

Proposal Producer + Microsoft Office specialist

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Tendup Team

Kat Barter

Founder + Director

Kat is a tender superhero, a guiding hand offering end-to-end support across any stage of a tender – from qualification through to contract signing. She established Tendup in 2018 with a vision to make tenders easy. With over a decade delivering high-quality tenders and proposals across government and private enterprises, Kat brings together the experience, creativity and smarts for winning tender management.

Coming from an arts and media background, Kat’s creative perspective and dynamic communication style bring a creative point of difference in the competitive world of tenders.

Her approach is collaborative and team-focused, incorporating agile elements to drive creativity and momentum within structure and process. She leads the Tendup team with purpose, overseeing cut-through content that gets clients to the negotiating table.

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Jessica Fox

Proposal Manager + Writer

Jess has over 10 years’ experience in tender management and communications. A specialised sales writer, Jess has particular experience compiling tender submissions for large corporate and government clients. She enjoys taking complicated concepts and articulating them in an interesting and approachable way. Jess considers research to be a core part of the bid writing process, and is passionate about understanding the challenges and idiosyncrasies of her clients’ industries while working together.

Sean Flannery

Proposal Producer + Microsoft Office specialist

Sean is a Microsoft Office support and desktop publishing specialist with over 38 years’ experience helping organisations produce professional, effective and user-friendly business documents. He has extensive experience working with graphic designers developing templates, presentations, reports, submissions and branded documents for corporate, government and engineering clients.

With a background in both corporate IT support and document production, Sean combines deep technical knowledge with a practical understanding of how people work. He has over seven years in full-time IT support roles, as a Microsoft Office support specialist within large corporate ITIL environments, helping users maximise productivity and solve complex document challenges.

Sean has contributed to numerous major bid submissions since 1998, providing template development, document control, editing, formatting, presentation support and production management. His attention to detail, technical expertise and ability to keep complex projects running smoothly make him a valuable member of any bid team.