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Bid and tender writing for health and social care

Care tender writing service for health and social care providers

Health and social care tender writing means writing the scored answers a care provider submits to win council, NHS and framework contracts: method statements on how you will deliver the service, social value commitments and the evidence behind them. We read your tender pack, send a fixed-fee quote from £1,500 + VAT within 24 hours, then plan, write and review every answer with you.

We only write for care providers: domiciliary care, supported living, residential, children's services and NHS community health. Because we also support CQC registration and compliance, your answers match your registration documents and policies.

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council framework, DPS and contract awards our clients have won with us, each published with its award letter.

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What it costs
From £1,500 plus VAT, as a fixed fee. We quote within 24 hours of reading your tender pack, so you know the price before you commit.
Who buys care
Councils buy social care under the Procurement Act 2023. The NHS arranges healthcare under the Provider Selection Regime.
How bids are scored
On the most advantageous tender: a mix of quality, price and social value that the buyer sets. In care, quality usually carries the most marks.
How long you get
Social care tenders have no legal minimum time under the light touch rules, so deadlines can be short. Send us the pack early.
What we need from you
The tender pack, your policies and statement of purpose, and a 60 to 90 minute briefing with your manager or a director.
Can anyone guarantee a win
No. The buyer scores every bid. We plan each answer against the scoring criteria and back it with evidence from your service.
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Contracts our clients have won

12awards for 4 care providers, from councils across England and Wales

Every result below comes from one of our published success stories, where you can read the award letter. Those pages also record the bids that did not succeed, because an honest record is more useful to you than a headline win rate.

What our tender and bid writing service includes

Use us for the whole bid, from finding the tender to the award, or just for the parts you need. Every part is written by people who work only in health and social care.

  • Finding the right tenders

    We watch Find a Tender, Contracts Finder, Sell2Wales, eTendersNI and council portals, and send you a weekly briefing of tenders that fit your services and areas.

  • Bid or no-bid check

    Before you spend time, we check the rating threshold, coverage, capacity and financial tests, and tell you plainly if a tender is not worth chasing.

  • Selection questionnaires

    Your organisation profile, finances, insurance, policies and case studies, prepared so you pass the first stage and reach the scored questions.

  • Quality answers and method statements

    Every scored question written to the buyer's descriptors and word limits, with evidence from your service rather than generic claims.

  • Social value

    Specific, measurable commitments tied to the area the contract serves, such as local jobs and partnerships, that you can deliver and report on.

  • Pricing support

    Sustainable pricing models that account for real costs, including travel time for home care, presented in the format the tender asks for.

  • Review and submission

    A second consultant reviews every answer against the scoring criteria, then we format it and support you through the portal upload.

  • Clarifications and presentations

    If the buyer asks clarification questions or invites you to present, we help you prepare your answers.

Some of the providers we have worked with

How care tendering works in 2026

The rules changed in 2024 and 2025, and many tender guides still describe the old ones. These are the four changes that affect how a care provider bids today.

  • Councils buy care under the Procurement Act 2023

    The Act came into force on 24 February 2025. Most social care contracts above £663,540 including VAT are light touch: the council designs its own process, there is no minimum time to respond and the standstill period is optional.

  • The NHS uses the Provider Selection Regime

    Since 1 January 2024, NHS bodies arrange healthcare under the PSR. They can keep an existing provider, choose the most suitable provider or run a competition, so some NHS work is never openly tendered.

  • Dynamic markets are replacing DPSs

    New open lists are set up as dynamic markets that you can join at any time you meet the conditions. Existing dynamic purchasing systems keep running until they expire, by 23 February 2029 at the latest.

  • You get your scores after the decision

    Before awarding, the buyer sends every bidder an assessment summary with their scores and the winning bid's. Win or lose, it tells you exactly where to gain marks next time.

Frameworks, dynamic markets and contracts compared

  • Framework

    How you join
    One competition, then closed until it is re-let
    The work
    Call-offs or mini competitions for named packages
    What it means
    A single window. Missing it can mean waiting years.

  • Dynamic market or DPS

    How you join
    Open the whole time you meet the conditions
    The work
    Packages offered to providers on the list
    What it means
    Join early and keep your documents up to date.

  • Single contract

    How you join
    One competition for one named contract
    The work
    The winner or winners deliver the whole contract
    What it means
    Winner takes the work, so every mark counts.

  • Spot purchase

    How you join
    No competition: the council buys package by package
    The work
    Individual care packages as they arise
    What it means
    Relationships and availability decide it.

How your bid is scored

Contracts are awarded to the most advantageous tender, which replaced the old most economically advantageous tender. The buyer decides the mix of quality, price and social value and publishes it in the tender pack. Each quality question carries its own weighting and is usually marked on a scale such as 0 to 5, so the questions worth most marks deserve most of your time.

Social value is rising

PPN 026, published in August 2026, sets a minimum 20% social value weighting for central government contracts of £5m or more, and 10% from £1m, from 1 January 2027. Councils are not bound by it, but the Social Value Act 2012 already asks them to consider it.

Social value guide for care providers

Sources: Procurement Act 2023 and Procurement Regulations 2024; procurement thresholds from 1 January 2026; NHS England, Provider Selection Regime; Cabinet Office, PPN 026. Checked 16 October 2026.

Step by step

The 7 stages of a care tender, and what we do at each

Every care tender runs through the same seven stages, from finding the opportunity to the award. Here is what happens at each one and how we help.

What working with us looks like

Our tender briefings to clients
Weekly
To get our fixed-fee quote
24 hours
Your briefing with us
60 to 90 minutes
Fixed fee for a tender, plus VAT
From £1,500
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Steps 1 to 2

Find and decide

  1. Find the opportunity

    Tender notices go on Find a Tender, the government's central platform. You will also see care work on Contracts Finder, Sell2Wales, eTendersNI and councils' own portals, where most council tenders are run. Watch for preliminary market engagement notices too: they show what is coming months ahead.

    We send clients a weekly briefing of tenders that fit their services and areas.

  2. Decide whether to bid

    Read the conditions before you write anything: the CQC rating threshold, the areas and volumes, staffing, insurance and financial tests. A bid you cannot pass on eligibility wastes the time you need for the ones you can win.

    We tell you plainly when a tender is not worth chasing.

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Step 3

Qualify

  1. Pass the selection stage

    The buyer checks you meet its conditions of participation: your organisation, finances, insurance, policies, experience and any exclusion grounds. Some tenders run this as a separate first stage, others in the same submission as the quality questions.

    Keep your core documents current so this stage takes hours, not days.

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Steps 4 to 5

Write

  1. Brief the writer

    We hold a 60 to 90 minute briefing with your registered manager or a director to gather how your service really works: visits, staffing, outcomes, quality checks and the stories that prove them.

    The best answers come from your service, not from a template.

  2. Write and price the answers

    Every scored question is planned against its weighting and descriptors, written within the word limit and backed by evidence. Social value commitments are tied to the area, and pricing is modelled on your real costs.

    The questions worth most marks get most of the time.

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Steps 6 to 7

Submit and award

  1. Review and submit

    A second consultant checks every answer against the scoring criteria, the word limits and the instructions. You sign it off, and we support the portal upload before the deadline.

    Portals close to the minute, so submit a day early.

  2. Clarifications, award and feedback

    The buyer may ask clarification questions or invite a presentation. Before the award, every bidder receives an assessment summary with their scores. Contracts follow, after a standstill period where one applies.

    Read the assessment summary even when you win: it shows where the next marks are.

Stages follow the Procurement Act 2023. Some tenders combine stages or add interviews and site visits.

Tender writing for every kind of care service

Commissioners score each kind of care on different things. We write in the language of your service, and we make sure every answer matches your CQC or Ofsted registration and your policies.

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Bidding for your first contract?

Without past contracts to cite, your bid rests on how you will deliver: your manager's experience, your staffing plan, policies and quality checks. Frameworks and dynamic markets that are open to new providers are often the best place to start.

  • Domiciliary care

    What commissioners score

    Geographic coverage, call scheduling and travel time, continuity of carers, medicines support and how you respond to missed or unplanned calls.

    Domiciliary care tenders

  • Supported living

    What commissioners score

    Independence and outcomes, positive behaviour support, keeping the tenancy separate from the support, and choice and control for each person.

    Supported living tenders

  • Residential and extra care

    What commissioners score

    Staffing and dependency, activities and wellbeing, the environment, and how care and housing work together in extra care schemes.

    Residential and extra care tenders

  • Reablement and hospital discharge

    What commissioners score

    Speed of starting care, short-term goals, working with therapists and discharge teams, and how many people regain independence.

    Reablement tenders

  • Children and young people

    What commissioners score

    Ofsted registration where it applies, safeguarding, education and health outcomes, and placement stability.

    Children and young people tenders

  • NHS community health

    What commissioners score

    Quality, integration with local services, access and value, which are the criteria NHS bodies weigh under the Provider Selection Regime.

    How NHS and council buying works

How much does tender writing cost?

Our care tender writing starts from £1,500 plus VAT, as a fixed fee. Send us the tender pack and we will quote within 24 hours, so you know the exact cost before you commit. Bid writers generally charge by the day, by the question or a fixed fee per tender; we use a fixed fee so there are no surprises.

A care tender

from£1,500

Plus VAT. A fixed fee, quoted within 24 hours of reading your tender pack.

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What affects the price

  • How many quality questions need a written answer
  • The word limits and any attachments the buyer asks for
  • How long there is until the deadline
  • Whether you need help with pricing or a selection questionnaire

What the fee includes

  • Your briefing session
  • All research and writing
  • A second consultant's quality review
  • Formatting to the buyer's submission rules
  • One round of amends based on your feedback

Bidding regularly? Our retained packages give a lower rate across several tenders a year, which suits providers bidding in more than one council area.

Client reviews

What care providers say about working with us

Care providers describe working with us, in their own words, on Trustpilot and Google.

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    3 October 2026

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Tender writing FAQs

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Tender writing is preparing the written response a business submits to win a public or private contract. In health and social care that usually means answering a council's or NHS body's questions about how you will deliver the service, with evidence, so the buyer can score your bid against published criteria.
A tender writer reads the tender pack, plans every answer against the scoring criteria and word limits, gathers evidence from your service, and writes clear answers that show how you will meet the specification. A good care tender writer also checks that the bid matches your CQC registration, policies and pricing.
Our care tender writing starts from £1,500 plus VAT, as a fixed fee we quote within 24 hours of reading your tender pack. The price depends on the number of quality questions, the word limits, the time until the deadline and whether you need help with pricing or a selection questionnaire.
Bid writers usually charge by the day, by the question or a fixed fee per tender, and some offer retained packages for regular bidders. We charge a fixed fee from £1,500 plus VAT per care tender, agreed before we start, and offer retained packages if you bid often.
For a care tender the stages are: find the opportunity, decide whether to bid, pass the selection stage, brief the writer, write and price the answers, review and submit, then clarifications, award and feedback. Under the Procurement Act 2023 every bidder receives an assessment summary with their scores before the contract is awarded.
Since 1 January 2024 most NHS healthcare has been arranged under the Provider Selection Regime. An NHS body can continue with an existing provider, choose the most suitable provider or run a competitive process, so watch Find a Tender for notices and make sure the commissioner knows your service. When there is a competition, bids are judged on quality, value, integration, access and social value.
Under the Procurement Act 2023 public buyers use an open procedure, where anyone can bid in one stage, or a competitive flexible procedure that the buyer designs, often with a selection stage first. Care work is then bought through frameworks, dynamic markets (which are replacing dynamic purchasing systems), single contracts or spot purchases.
The Act came into force on 24 February 2025. Most social care contracts are light touch, so councils design their own process and there is no minimum response time. Contracts go to the most advantageous tender, bidders receive assessment summaries before award, and dynamic markets are replacing dynamic purchasing systems, which must end by 23 February 2029.
Yes. Both mean writing a formal response to a contract opportunity that the buyer scores against published criteria. Bid management is the wider job of running the bid process, from the decision to bid through to submission.
Yes. We write bids for health and social care providers, including domiciliary care, supported living, residential and extra care, reablement, children's services and NHS-funded community services.
Often, yes, particularly on frameworks and dynamic markets that are open to new providers. Without past contracts to cite, your bid relies on how you will deliver: your policies, staffing plan, management experience and quality systems. We help you show that clearly and make sure it matches your CQC registration.
The tender pack, your policies, your statement of purpose, staffing and training information, any contract or quality data you hold, and a 60 to 90 minute briefing with your registered manager or a director.
No. Nobody can honestly guarantee a contract award, because the outcome depends on the buyer's scoring and on the other bids. What we can do is plan every answer against the scoring criteria and back it with evidence from your service. The contracts our clients have won are published on this page.
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