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Health and social care tenders

Health and Social Care Tender Sectors We Support

Specialist bid writing across every health and social care tender sector, from domiciliary care and supported living to children’s services and clinical care

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Care Sync Experts writes winning health and social care tenders across the whole sector. Whatever care you deliver, from home care and supported living to children’s services and clinical contracts, we help you find the right opportunities and write responses that score against the commissioner’s criteria. We are a specialist health and social care consultancy, so we understand the regulation behind every sector, not just the bid.
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WHO THIS IS FOR

Care providers across England, Wales and Northern Ireland bidding for local authority and NHS contracts. What we do: opportunity selection, selection questionnaires, quality method statements, pricing support and submission, through our tender writing service (/services/tender-writing).

What to do next: Choose your sector below, book a consultation, or send us a tender to review.

Why care tenders matter

Care is one of the largest publicly commissioned markets in the country. Local authorities in England spent around 29 billion pounds on adult social care in 2024 to 2025, according to the House of Commons Library, and Skills for Care reported that the CQC regulated more than 15,000 domiciliary care organisations as at March 2025. Most of that work is awarded through tenders, so a strong bidding strategy is the main route to sustainable, fundable contracts.

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What are health and social care tenders?
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Health and social care tenders are formal procurement processes where commissioners, usually local authorities or the NHS, invite providers to bid to deliver care services.

Providers submit written quality responses and prices, and successful bids secure a place on a framework, a dynamic purchasing system or a contract for a fixed term.

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Adult social care commissioned by councils is governed by the Procurement Act 2023, live since 24 February 2025, usually through its light touch regime. Health care commissioned by the NHS is arranged under the Provider Selection Regime, and children’s services are regulated by Ofsted. We write to the correct regime and regulator for every opportunity.

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Which regulator and procurement regime applies to your tender?

Knowing the regulator and the procurement regime for your sector shapes the whole bid. As a four-nations, all-sector consultancy, we cover them all.

The care tender sectors we cover ↗
Sector GroupMain RegulatorMain Procurement Regime
Adult CareCQC in England, CIW in Wales, RQIA in Northern IrelandProcurement Act 2023, usually the light touch regime
NHS-commissioned health careCare Quality CommissionProvider Selection Regime
Children and young people’s servicesOfstedProcurement Act 2023, light touch regime
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How our bid writing works

Read our guidance on the Procurement Act 2023 for care providers

Free consultation and bid or no-bid review, so you only chase the right opportunities.

Strategy: we map the specification, the scoring and the evidence you already hold.

Writing: sector-specific quality responses that name your systems, roles and outcomes

Quality review: compliance, word counts and a final evaluator-style check.

Submission support and, after the result, feedback analysis to improve the next bid.

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Read our guidance on the Procurement Act 2023 for care providers and social value in care tenders

Where to find health and social care tenders

Public care opportunities are published on the official GOV.UK portals, Find a Tender and Contracts Finder, as well as regional council portals. We also keep a live tenders hub so you can see current opportunities across the sectors above. Most contracts require CQC registration, and many require a rating of Good as a minimum.

Health and social care tender portals

Frequently asked questions

Health and social care tenders are formal procurement processes where commissioners, usually local authorities or the NHS, invite providers to bid to deliver care services. Providers submit written quality responses and prices.
We write tenders across adult social care, children and young people’s services, and NHS-commissioned health and clinical services, including the sectors listed on this page.
Most contracts require the relevant registration for the service and location. Adult care may require CQC, CIW or RQIA registration, while children’s services may require Ofsted registration.
Public opportunities are published on Find a Tender, Contracts Finder and regional council portals. Our live tenders hub also helps providers find current opportunities.
Both are procurement routes that allow commissioners to appoint providers, but a framework normally operates for a defined period while a dynamic purchasing system can remain open to new providers that meet its requirements.
Yes. A new provider must meet the opportunity’s regulatory, financial and service requirements and submit evidence-led quality responses that address the published scoring criteria.
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