Social Care
The Social care sector is one of the largest sectors in the UK with the UK’s ageing population being a driver of growth. An industry which mostly cares for older people, the Social Care sector spans across in home, residential care and community settings. A skilled tender writer with strong knowledge of the Social Care sector is critical to helping you address the criteria in Social Care tenders and bids. Our knowledgeable team is ready to help.
Do you need help with your Social Care bid or tender?
Our tender writers will help ensure you submit an exemplary bid. We will leverage on our industry insight and knowledge to introduce the latest in through leadership and proposal writing best practice. We will add value to your social care tenders by:
Integrating graphics and infographics
Incorporating our industry knowledge and insights
Adopting best practice writing techniques
Project managing and leading the response process from start to finish
Ensuring you comply with regulatory requirements
Writing winning Social Care Bids
Our team of writers has helped newly established social care companies and charities as well some of the largest, most established players in the social care sector. Our experience includes assisting clients across the UK including major cities such as London and Manchester as well as regional areas.
For example, we recently supported a well established social care provider with the London region. The provider was looking to retain their contract to service a number of areas, as well as grow and expand to two additional areas. Our team led the tender process and worked closely with key SMEs in the organisation to successfully retain and secure the additional contracts.
The result was significant for the client as the existing contracts formed over 25% of their revenue.
Our Social Care bid and tender writing specialists
We’re proud to state that two of our Tsaks Consulting specialist bid writers specialize only in Social Care tenders. They have a combined 25 years experience in writing and winning health and social care contracts. This experience includes writing bids and proposals to:
- Local authorities.
- Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs)
- Central government departments
- NHS
Our writers take a systematic and methodical approach to assisting clients with a strong focus on quality. We write to win and are thorough in our approach to complying the specifications and requirements. We systematically approach each question to ensure you score highly and meet and exceed the evaluation criteria.
Strategies to help you win social care tenders
- A comprehensive and detailed method statement. The quality and detailed method statement is critical to gaining the confidence of the reader and securing a contract. It is important to address each, specific requirement in the method statement that has been outlined in the specification document. You need to ensure your response reflects the general structure and method included in the questions and that you clearly and concisely answer each question.
- Directly respond to the question. This seems simple but can be hard to achieve. You need to directly answer each question. Incorporate the words of the question into your headings or responses is often helpful. In addition, comply with any word counts, and ensure your content roughly addresses each question where a word count is not provided.
- Always back up your statements with evidence. Hit the reader with facts and statistics. Testimonials are also helpful to support any statements you make in your text.
- Stay succinct. There is no need to ‘woffle’ on about any irrelevant experience. It will simply bore the reader. Make sure you demonstrate any supplementary value and identify any unique services or benefits your proposal offers.
- Make sure you are eligible. This is obviously best cone at the start of the process. With the amount of work involved in any tender, it s important that you ensure you are eligible. Firstly, generally speaking, the value of the tender should not exceed 40% of your annual turnover. Secondly, you need to ensure you are a member of the relevant commissions and have the memberships and insurances stipulated in any mandatory criteria.
- Focus on social value. When assisting with your bid, our health and social care bid and tender writers will ensure there is a strong focus on social value. This is generally now incorporated into most care tenders, and a strong social value response can sometimes be the difference between wining or losing a tender. Given the Public Services (Social Value) Act, which came into effect in 2013, there is a statutory responsibility for public service bodies to meet social value obligations and ensures the downstream benefits of contracts flow through to the local community. We will help you demonstrate the social, economic and environmental benefits of your proposal.
Addressing the Care Act 2014
Our health and social care tender and bid writing consultants understand how to navigate the Care Act 2014. This act was put in place to address stress points within the UK’s care industry and to alleviate strain. The act has driven a movement towards outcomes-led care. It is important to understand the impact and motivations of The Care Act when writing bids and tenders and ensuring your proposal supports the objectives of the act and helps enable service users live more independently.
Client testimonials
We are a social care services provider and we need to bid for frameworks and respond to ITTs in order to grow our organisation. It is always a highly competitive process and one which takes great time and focus to succeed in. We use Tsaks Consulting UK to review our bids at first draft, second draft and fianlisation stage. They always provide us with excellent feedback and constructive criticism that we can act on to help us win our bid. They also complete compliance checks for us and double check everything and review our writing so we know what to improve on to ensure we score well and give ourselves the best chance of winning. If you are looking for bid writing support with a social care bid or tender or even framework application I would definitely recommend Tsaks Consulting.
Peter J | Social Care Service | London
We are a social care services provider with an in-house bid writer. We operate across the UK including in London, Leeds and Manchester. We recently had our bid writer take leave for personal reasons and needed to fill the gap for a number of weeks. As luck would have it, two important contracts / frameworks were released and we needed them to be completed to a high standard to give ourselves the best chance of winning. We spoke with the team at Tsaks Consulting UK and quickly became confident that they knew how to win social care bids and were the right consultancy to help us out. The whole process was easy and they quickly got up to speed with our current documentation and content. They came up with great suggestions on what we could improve on to win and they wrote the first draft. We reviewed it and were happy with most of it, we provided further input and the bid was finalised after a second draft and additional iterations. The process was well organised which was great. In addition, they are highly transparent in their approach so we were confident about the progress of our bid. I would definitely recommend Tsaks Consulting to Social Care organisations who want help winning more bids and tenders.
Michael I | Social Care Services Provider | Manchester
Frequently asked questions
Can you help us write a bid for Social Care services frameworks?
Yes. Here at Tsaks Consulting, our team has strong experience writing Social Care services bids and tenders including ITT responses and framework applications. Our team has a track record of success, and have helped many small and medium businesses across the UK write framework applications and bids.
Do you provide review services or just write our social care bids and can you guarantee we will win?
Yes we can either review your bid and provide feedback on how to increase your chances of winning, or we can write your bid or tender for you. We can’t guarantee you will win, however, we will definitely do our best to help you win and succeed!
How we can help
Contact our team of bid writers today to talk about your next social care tender and how we can help you win. We offer a review and evaluate service as well as a comprehensive bid and tender writing service.