Bid Writing Experts for APMS (Alternative Provider Medical Services) and GP (General Practitioner) Services NHS Contracts

Our bid and tender writers help Medical Practitioners and GPs write bids and secure contracts, tenders and frameworks with the NHS. Our writers work with GP practices to increase their chances of winning contract by employing best practice writing techniques and showcasing their expertise, experience and capabilities.

When writing bids in the healthcare sector, you need to demonstrate sector knowledge by focusing on patient outcomes and also social value outcomes. You also need to localise your bid and put forward a highly tailored and concise proposal. Our bid writing consultants specialise in the healthcare sector and have worked with many GP Service providers to submit winning proposals for frameworks and APMS contracts.

Recent testimonials demonstrating our bid writing success

“We can’t believe it. What a fantastic result. We have been offered a GP Practice – largely thanks to your bid writing team. Thank you so much.”

“Tsaks Consulting really know the healthcare sector and had experience writing GP Services contracts. This experience was critical to helping us win the bid. We thank and recommend the team.”

“Just a quick note to say we got the result for the bid and we have been awarded two lots. This is fantastic news for us – and we thank you so much. In particular, thank you to Jason who was our main contact and guided use through developing the bid.”

About the GP services sector and contract opportunities

General Practice (GP) services are critical to the proper functioning of the UK healthcare sector. GPs play a crucial project coordination role in the medical system and process and are more often than not the first contact patients have with the healthcare service or for a specific healthcare issue. GP Services are highly localised and are often small and medium enterprises who become an important part, along with pharmacies, of their local communities. As a result, GP practices are often tailored to the unique health needs of the communities in which they operate.

A GP Practices general comprises of a doctor, nurse and also admin staff.

How are GP services funded and how this flows through to winning contracts through bids and proposals

GP services and the operation of GPs is mostly funded by NHS budgets. The NHS has it’s own way of allocating funding and this is generally done through a commissioning process where services are planned and then purchased.

One of the key groups in the commissioning process are the Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs). These groups allocate the critical financial and other resources of the NHS. They have funding priorities which guide what they do. When writing a bid or tender, it is critical to align your bid to the funding prioritise and read between the lines of what they are looking for.

Bidding for and winning APMS (Alternative Provider and Medical Services) Tenders and Contracts

The APMS contract is commonly used by the NHS to procure the services of General Practitioners. It provides a lot of flexibility to the provision of primary medical services – generally by enabling different types of providers including privately companies to bid for and provide General Practitioner services.

Across the UK, there is a shortage of GPs and are often gaps in the number of GPs and their availability. The traditional method of procuring GP services works, however, when there are gaps, they need to be filled, sometimes on a temporary basis. Through APMS contracts alternative providers are able to bid for works and fill these gaps. They are often in regional areas.

Our team of consultants have experience helping bid writers have helped General Practitioners and other medical providers win NHS and other contracts for:

• APMS contracts
• The operation and provision of Walk in Centres
• The operation of Urgent Treatment Centres
• The establishment, and delivery of Out of Hours GP support services
• NHS 111 contracts.

Our bid writing consultants have worked on bids for hybrid GP services and services slightly outside GS support. These include:

• Contracts for healthcare and general practitioner medical services in prisons. In these bids, we help clients win by tailoring their medical services to the unique prison environment and talking about the prison specific services they will provide.
• Contracts for integrated sexual health services – we help our clients win these by demonstrating an understanding of the demographic.

How our consultants help General Practitioners and private companies win APMS and GP Services bids

Our team of bid writers help will help you write bids and tenders to secure a contract. Any NHS bid are generally very competitive, and APMS and GP services bids are no different. You need to tailor your bid to the opportunity and write concisely and effectively so you stand out from the crowd.

When you engage Tsaks Consulting to assist with your bid, we will work with you to:

Identify and convey your win themes

You need to assess and understand the NHS values and procurement protocols. After that, you need to understand and research the demographics of the local area and the driving forces behind the commissioner’s actions. When that is complete, the next step is to develop win themes that align with how you address these needs and interweave them into your research.

Writing and managing your bid submission

Our team of bid writers are experienced working with GPs and business owners and understand the terminology of the NHS bids. We will write your bid, with input from you, and showcase your expertise and experience with a focus on how it aligns to the bid requirements.

Develop a bid library for your GP Services Bids

As we create a bid, we also create a bid library. This will enable you to quickly and efficiently develop similar bids and response to contract opportunities. Of course, you still need to tailor your bid to win it, however, a bid library will help make the process more efficient.

Why engage Tsaks Consulting to help write your next APMS or GP Services bid?

• Our team have experience writing NHS bids. We will ensure you comply with the requirements and understand what it takes to win NHS bids
• Our writing consultants will tailor your bid and extract the information from you – and other sources – required to put together a compelling bid.
• We will take the stress out of the bid writing process for you. Because most of the times you will have other demands to focus on – and our team will give you the assurance that you submit a quality bid.

 Strategies and Tips to help you win APMS and GP Services bids

• Ensure you adhere to the specifications and requirements – and confirm you will comply with the quality standards. You need to demonstrate that you will be a reliable provider of services and that you are ‘low risk’ so to speak. Including evidence in your text is critical for this.
• Showcase your clinical governance experience and procedures as well as the experience of your team. Talk about how this experience will apply to the demographics and location outlined in the bid.
• Put forward a Social Value commitment which you can quantify and put a number on. Wishy washy social value commitments won’t win you a tender. You need an innovative Social Value commitment that will you can put a time and dollar value on and which directly impacts the local area in which you propose to operate.
• Delivering a high-quality care and driving patient outcomes is critical. You need to draw the link between patient outcomes and the experience and plan you put forward and how this will help achieve them.
• Write comprehensive responses to all questions. You need to score well in all questions in order to win a contract and achieve and excellent weighted score.
• Address each KPI and performance criteria specifically and directly.
• Provide evidence of your quality standards in your bid. This may include documentation from previous quality and compliance audits. Make sure you detail your quality standards and why they ensure your GP services are exemplary.
• Localise your bid and talk about how you will work with local stakeholders. Put in the work from the start, by networking with local businesses and organisations and leveraging on and including the results of that networking in your proposal.
• Cover off your clinical governance procedures from a medical, ACP (Advanced Clinical Practitioners) and ANP (Advanced Nursing Practitioner) angle. Ensure you cover of all three if they are relevant to your bid.
• Put forward a well-thought-out implementation plan. You need to include reasonable timelines and put forward a plan that demonstrates how you will engage with community stakeholders, NHS representatives and other key personnel.
• Demonstrate you have the depth of resources, capacity and capability to hire additional personnel should this be required. This is an important point. You need to put forward a quality team – and should that you have the processes in place to recruit additional personnel if required.
• Delivering a positive patient experience that is inclusive (including accessibility) and engaging. This is a combination of procedures and less easy to quantify initiatives and ‘soft skills’ to ensure a positive patient experience.

Writing winning APMS and GP Services Bids

Our bid and tender writers have helped GPs and private businesses across the UK win contracts with the NHS and be awarded to other frameworks. When creating a bid, you need to take the time to tailor the solution and write a highly localised bid.

Remember to tell a story about your ideas for the contract and what innovative and fresh ideas you will bring to delivering on the contract. For assistance, call our team. We have experience writing bids and tenders in all localities (as well as a speciality in healthcare tenders) including in London, Birmingham, Dublin, Manchester, Derby, York, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow and in rural and regional areas across the United Kingdom.

Contact our team today to talk to one of our bid experts about how we can assist with your next bid or tender.