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Most providers lose tenders on evidence, not on price

Local authorities and Integrated Care Boards are not only comparing rates. They are assessing governance, staffing resilience, safeguarding, financial sustainability and whether you can demonstrate outcomes.

A tender is a test of whether you can evidence what you already do

Providers who deliver excellent care routinely lose to providers who describe adequate care more convincingly, and it feels unjust because it is.

The gap is nearly always the same. The service has the substance and cannot produce it in the form the question asks for, under a deadline, while also running the service.

Deadlines are the constraint

Ring as soon as the tender is published, not the week it closes.

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What it is

Three things, and the first is the one a generic bid writer cannot do.

Sector-specific, not generic bid writing

The difference is knowing what a commissioner means by a question, which is often not what it says.

Built from your evidence

We do not write claims you cannot support. We find what you already have and put it in the right form.

Honest about fit

Some tenders are not worth bidding for, and we would rather tell you in week one.

What it covers, and what it does not

Support with the submission. We do not guarantee an award — no one can — and we will not write something the service cannot deliver if it wins.

Fees are quoted before any work starts. Nothing on this page is an offer.

Who it is for

Providers bidding for local authority or ICB contracts

Whether it is a first bid or a renewal of something you already hold.

Services applying to a framework

For the first time, where the format itself is unfamiliar.

Anyone who has lost a tender

And been told the quality response was the weakness.

Send us the tender, not a summary of it

The questions are the work. Once we have seen them we can tell you what evidence you need and whether the bid is worth making at all.

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If it is easier to write it down than say it out loud, send a message.

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The tender documents and the closing date are the two things to send.

Evidence, in the form the question asks for.

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