We help mental health service providers write winning submissions, win contracts and grow revenue
Mental health contracts are generally competitive – with numerous mental health service providers generally bidding for the same framework or contract. This applies to all areas of mental health such as counselling, acute psychiatric care and community-based therapy. In order to win, you need to demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of the Patient Pathway, deep clinical insight and robust and well-developed procedures and practice management processes.
At Tsaks Consulting UK, we:
- Specialise in writing methodologies that score well and clearly and concisely summarise complex clinical methodologies.
- Have an 80% track record in mental health tenders over the past three years.
- Specialise in the health care sector and understand NHS and other government requirements.
- Are passionate about helping mental health care professionals who provide excellent care translate this into writing a bid and winning frameworks and contracts.
A specialist approach to writing winning mental health tenders.
Mental health tenders have a strong focus on the long term and need to clearly detail how you will deal with risk and safeguarding. These are usually critical to scoring well and winning the bid. Our team will ensure you comprehensively cover:
- Clinical governance and safety: The key here is to be practical and provide a detailed description of how you will implement your policies. This should include your proposed clinical audit cycles, examples and detail on how you will approach ligature risk assessments, and any procedures (or previous experience and case studies) you have on managing high-intensity crises.
- Tailored and detailed methodologies: Your bid, tender or framework application needs to be tailored to the opportunity and specific demographic which you are bidding for. This is critical as you can’t simply cut and paste the same methodology in each bid. Instead, you should tailor your methodology to the specific demographic. For example, your methodology will be a lot different when bidding to provide CAMHS (Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services) that it would be for a contract to provide Older Adult Mental Health. Your processes and approach will be different when dealing with children and this needs to be integrated into and reflected in your methodology.
- Tailored CVs. Your bios are absolutely critical. The first point is that you need to show you’re A-team. You need to clearly demonstrate that you have the depth of resources to deliver on the services over the full term of the contract. In addition, you need to detail that you have the experience and qualifications required to deliver the services. I.e. specific expertise in CBT, EMDR or Psychiatric nursing. In addition, you need to include relevant cases and experience in your CV that reflects the requirements of the contract and the types of cases you will be working on.
We help you write and win bids for a range of services
We have helped clients secure contacts across a range of mental health services including:
- Talking Therapies & IAPT: These are mostly primary care counselling and psychological support.
- Crisis & Residential Care: We have helped clients secure contracts and win bids to manage inpatient units as well as operate and service crisis houses.
- Community Outreach: Our team has worked on bids that are to provide specialist services in substance misuse, homelessness mental health and dual diagnosis support.
- NHS Frameworks: We have worked on a number of NHS frameworks where we ensure you comply with ICB (Integrated Care Boards) requirements.
Developing win themes score well in mental health tenders
If you engage our team of expert writers to assist with your tender, we will work with you to identify win themes and develop a winning strategy. We will do this through:
- Gap and bid / no bid analysis: We will firstly review your expertise and experience and ensure the contract is worth bidding for. We will then identify potential gaps in your capability.
- Storyboarding: We will brainstorm and develop your proposed response.
- Social Value Alignment: We will work with you to develop tailored and measurable social value initiatives to ensure you score well in this critical area.
You need to ensure your proposed services align with the Mental Health Act 2025 reforms and the PSR. Our team will help you demonstrate your knowledge of Trauma-Informed Methodologies, the Severity Gap Solution (and how you will manage MDTs to ensure you minimise any referral bouncing), and how you will deliver real long-term recovery solutions and reduced emergency admissions.
Helping clients across the UK win mental health frameworks, DPS and NHS contracts
We help clients win mental health tenders across the UK including in/to:
- NHS England: Including Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) and the Mental Health Investment Standard (MHIS).
- NHS Scotland: Including bidding for Public Health Scotland initiatives and ensuring you include ‘realistic medicine’ as a key win theme so you align with the Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy (2026 – 2029).
- NHS Wales: We will help and ensure you demonstrate in your bid how you will align with the Care Inspectorate Wales (CIW) standards and the National Collaborative Framework for Adult Mental Health. To score well, we will ensure you cross reference the specific standards throughout your bid to demonstrate your knowledge.
- Northern Ireland: We will help you win by leveraging on our knowledge of the RQIA regulatory framework and the unique Integrated Care System NI model.
Ready to win your next mental health framework or contract?
Contact our team of specialist bid and tender writers, led by Director, Jason Cooney, to talk about how we can help you win.