General Practitioner Alternative Provider Medical Services (GP APMS) contracts are usually highly competitive with many GPs and other organisations looking to win contracts and secure a piece of the NHS contract and revenue pie. To be successfully, you need to understand the NHS procurement approach, write a compelling and persuasive tender which clearly articulates your service delivery model, and present a tailored and localised solution to the NHS.
At Tsaks Consulting, we provide expert bid and tender writing services to clients across the UK, from London to Manchester and all cities and regions, designed to help GPs and medical centre operators win GP APMS contracts. They key for most providers to expand their reach and business is to find, bid for and win Alternative Provider Medical Centre contracts. We will help you navigate the requirements in these ITTs and SSQs in a way that ensures you put your best foot forward as a business an provide a clear value proposition.
What are GP AMPS tenders and bids?
GP APMS Contracts are different to contracts for General Medical Services and Personal Medical Services. They offer more flexibility and opportunity around who can provide medical services and allow different types of organisations (not just GPs), such as social enterprises and private companies to provide services. From a tender and bidding perspective, this means additional competition or GPs as well as new opportunities for other entities where they can help address specific needs in local communities (such as homelessness issues).
Our bid writers have strong experience in helping organisations across the UK including in Bristol and Sheffield win contracts by writing highly localised solutions that will be looked on positively by Integrated Care Boards (ICBs).
Writing winning tenders and bids for GP APMS contracts
You need to be strategic and methodical to win a GP APMS bid or contract. Although the evaluation criteria differ slightly from bid to bid, there are certainly some themes that appear in all bids and questions that are similar and it’s important to know how to answer them in a way that scores well.
Here at Tsaks Consulting UK, we help clients write comprehensive responses to ITTs and SSQs for GP APMS bids. Key areas you need to cover to win a contract include:
- Quality and clinical governance: You will need to provide a detailed proposal and methodology as to how you will deliver high-quality and safe services. You do this by providing clinical governance frameworks and referencing (and including as attachments where required), your policies and procures for patient safety and continuous improvement. A template quality assurance plan is not good enough if you want to win APMS contracts. You need to provide tailored documentation and then potentially reference examples or detail your track record.
- Provide a robust and thorough service delivery model: Most ITTs require you to detail your service delivery model. Your service delivery model will need to cover off key points in the proposed operation, such as accessibility, opening hours, range of services and any use of technology. You need to demonstrates that you have thought through the specific challenges of the contract at a local level, and have designed a service that addresses these challenges. I.e. cut and pasting your response to service delivery from other GP operation tenders is generally not good enough even if they were successful. They need to be tailored. Our locally based bid writers here at Tsaks Consulting UK can help with this.
- Experience and capability: You need to demonstrate that you have the capability and experience to deliver the contract. The word demonstrate is key here. Because in your case studies and CVs, you need to clearly identify where your experience aligns with the project requirements.
- Show that you can work collaboratively with other health sector providers and partners. This is critical. You need to demonstrate that you have a plan to contact and build relationships with related partners. For example, social care providers and other stakeholders in the local healthcare system. This recognises a reality that you will need to work with a range of stakeholders in order to successfully operate a GP clinic and that you must have the systems and processes in place to manage these relationships.
- Provide achievable and measurable social value initiatives. This is a must for all NHS bids and just about any government contract or framework. For more information about how to write a compelling social value response, read our guide here.
Helping you win Alternative Provider Medical Services contracts
Our team of bid and tender writers have strong experience helping clients bid for and win GP APMS contracts. We have extensive experience and a track record of winning NHS contracts and know and understand what you need to do to win. Our team will help you write your bid, review your bid and project manage the submission of your bid.
Our services extend across the entire UK from London to Manchester and beyond. If you are looking for expert with your next bid contact us or email info@tsaksconsulting.com to talk about how our cost-effective writing and review service can help you achieve success.