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Medical PPE Contracts and Tendering

Posted on by Olivia Backhouse

Medical PPE Contracts – Everything you Need to Know

Medical Personal Protective Equipment contracts (PPE) are essential to the functioning of our modern healthcare system. Without PPE, infections spread and care staff in a wide range of locations and establishments are put at risk. With this in mind, let’s look through the different aspects of PPE tenders, highlighting recent changes, alongside the tender process.

Where can I source PPE Tenders?

Wondering how you can easily source medical PPE contracts? Healthcare Tenders is a portal brought to you by Hudson Discover.

We don’t believe in CPV codes – we use real people, Opportunity Trackers, to find new contract opportunities every day. Our Opportunity Trackers scour multiple sources daily and collate a list of open contracts on our dedicated portal.

Clients use Healthcare Tenders as an essential time-saving tool. You can focus on what you do best, and we find opportunities to help expand your business.

As a Healthcare Tenders customer, you receive a daily bulletin directly to your inbox with contracts found that day.

Should I bid?

In the current climate, there has never been a greater need for PPE. If there is a framework or DPS seeking the provision of PPE, why not bid?

If you’re a PPE manufacturer/company with PPE providers, you could bid for Medical PPE Tenders right now.

An advantage of PPE tenders is that you do not have to be based locally to deliver the work. Fulfilling orders via post enables companies to be based anywhere and removes the problem of not being based locally.

Further Support

To enquire about Healthcare Tenders, click here. We can offer you a free demo to give you a taste of how the portal will help your business.

Below are previous medical PPE contracts sourced on our portal:

PQQ Single Party Framework for the Provision of PPE- Hand Sanitizer
Bus Eireann/Irish Bus- International- Budget: £1,600,000

Framework Agreement for the Supply of Disposable Gloves & Aprons

Supply Hertfordshire- Eastern- Budget: £20,000,000

Framework for the Supply of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

Liverpool City Council- North West- Budget: £106,000,000

Framework for Supply of Medical Face Masks to Housing & Other Bodies in Wales

Linc Cymru Housing Association- Wales- Budget: Undisclosed

Framework for the Supply & Delivery of Personal Protective Equipment PPE

Northern Ireland Housing Executive- Northern Irelands- Budget: Undisclosed

The Healthcare Tenders Portal also sources opportunities for sub-sectors including: 

Recent Changes

Covid-19 has raised many questions about the quantities of PPE available to key workers.

This has highlighted a larger problem in the scope of Medical PPE tenders and further emphasised their importance for tendering.

As the UK has left the EU, we will no longer be required to comply with their stipulated standards. The Brexit Health Alliance is one of the many bodies which will support the NHS and other healthcare providers.

It will be a matter of time before we are truly certain of what the future holds for the UK. This uncertainty will undoubtedly affect Medical PPE contracts and many other medical tenders.

It’s likely that most purchasing bodies will adhere to the existing EU regulations for ease and for quality assurance purposes.

It’s common knowledge that the UK has a public healthcare system. But what you may not know is that this means all contracts must be put out to tender. This includes Medical PPE contracts. Other large organisations may procure PPE via tenders for logistical ease and quality assurance.

Here are the different organisations who may seek to procure PPE:

  • NHS and associated bodies
  • Councils
  • Private healthcare bodies/providers
  • Large third sector organisations (such as UNICEF or Oxfam).

Medical PPE contracts, in a normal year, may appear periodically. However, our healthcare systems are under unusual pressure.

This means PPE tenders will continue to be published even once we are out of the Covid-19 pandemic.

It will be worth keeping an eye out for the foreseeable future. Many bodies, both public and private, continue to rely on PPE as a result of the pandemic.

This has never been a more essential time for PPE suppliers to step up.

PPE tenders will likely appear in the format of a DPS (Dynamic Purchasing System) register, or a framework agreement. These are similar yet different.

Both contracts result in multiple suppliers being successful. Framework agreements have a set deadline like a single-supplier contract. DPS registers run for years at a time, adding suppliers continuously.

If you are unsuccessful, you can tweak your response and reapply for a DPS. These formats are incredibly beneficial for buyers to ensure that they can fulfil demand.

A framework agreement or a DPS may divide the required provision into ‘Lots’ to facilitate bidding.

These lots may be geographical – providing NHS bodies or similar in certain areas of the country with all items stipulated.

Alternatively, it may be split into product types; but on a national scale.

An example of this option is as follows:

  • Medical and pharmaceutical masks (Lot 1)
  • Gloves (Lot 2)
  • Aprons, gowns and overshoes (Lot 3)
  • Eye protection and visors (Lot 4)
  • General Respiratory Protective Equipment (Lot 5).

You will usually be able to bid for any or all lots – whichever requirements you can fulfil.

The tender process

There will be no noticeable difference between tenders for PPE and the typical NHS tendering process. 

The process will, therefore, involve;

Selection Questionnaire – This is the first barrier for prospective suppliers to tackle, and it covers the minimum requirements for winning PPE tenders. They may also use a Pre-Qualification Questionnaire in some circumstances. Alongside this, a pricing document would need to be provided.

ITT/RFP – For the team writing the bid, this will be the heart of their process. An Invitation to Tender would include everything from timelines to requirements. Certain items of PPE will need to comply with specific legislation, for example. The exact requirements of each item will be outlined here and will need a scrutinous review from all potential suppliers. If the buyer is not looking for a good amount of detail, they may look into a Request For Proposal (RFP). This is more focused on providing the buyer with general information such as design considerations and budget.

Interview/presentation – Normally this stage in the process would be assigned to services, or products with services attached. However, PPE tenders may still facilitate the need for face-to-face presentations. In this case, you would need to prepare everything you’ve collated and present this to a Clinical Commissioning Board (CCG). Soon enough this board will be taken over by Integrated Health Systems, which performs the same role in health procurement.

Proposed products to fulfil criteria

You will need to thoroughly review the specification to ensure the products you are proposing meet the buyer’s criteria. For example, CE marking and relevant standards.

This may involve providing certificates/documents as proof. Buyers will be looking for you to explain how your products meet their needs.

If products are imported from outside of the European Union, then regulations take precedence. The manufacturer must have undergone a conformity assessment as per the PPE Regulations 2016. For example, for protective masks such as FFP2/FFP3, the conformity assessment requires the following:

  • An examination from a notified body – resulting in a certificate;
    • Production follows up from a notified body.

From this, CE marking can be awarded, along with the notified body’s registration number. The manufacturer (either yourself or your supply chain) must issue the following with the PPE item(s):

  • An EU Declaration of Conformity;
    • Instructions for use.
  • Quality assurance.

4 points to consider when it comes to PPE tenders

How do you ensure the quality of your products every time?

This will be a vital question to answer whether you are bidding as a manufacturer or a supplier.

If you are a manufacturer, how do you ensure that your products are fit for purpose and compliant every time? This may include describing internal method statements, staff training programmes, equipment maintenance and periodic testing.

If you are using a supply chain to provide the products, think about your supply chain management.

How do you check that your suppliers are compliant and execute best practice? Vetting, random audits and checking policies and procedures will be crucial here.

Delivery

Most likely, orders for PPE items on the contract will be fulfilled via couriers. Buyers may want to understand the methodology for delivery, minimum order information and delivery costs.

Also relevant here, could be the use of packaging. Most buyers are geared towards choosing suppliers who can demonstrate an environmentally conscious approach. Recyclable packaging, or even better, reusable that can be sent back to you, could win you points.

Invoicing

You may be asked to describe your invoicing processes. This may be a case of confirming your conformity to the buyer’s stipulated invoicing systems/procedure or describing your own. Efficiency, transparency, and consistency are key here. 

Pricing

This will usually be a separate document to the method statements. Demonstrating value for money is an incredibly important aspect of responding to any tender.

Prices should reflect the quality of the product and be sustainable for both your business and for the buyer.

Due to historic PPE shortages and current pressures, NHS bodies don’t have the funds to source expensive items. Prices should reflect the climate so that buyers can ensure the maximum number of suppliers to fulfil the ongoing shortage.

2 tips to help you win PPE tenders

Financial Threshold

Ensure that you’re choosing the right PPE tenders. For instance, if the contract value exceeds half of your annual revenue, it’s probably outside of your current capabilities. This advice is only given to avoid a failure to meet the contract should you win it. Too many suppliers overstretch and fall short of delivering the goods.

Time management

Always ensure that you’re keeping on top of PPE tenders. Your submission won’t be evaluated if it arrives after the deadline, no matter the quality. Produce some internal deadlines for yourself and the team. Organise progress meetings so that everyone is kept up to date. The more your bid is managed, the better the final product will be.

In summary

So, we’ve finished this blog on PPE tenders! Now you’re up to date with everything you need to know about winning PPE contracts.

We covered quite a bit in this blog, so you may be wondering if you could have a recap… Healthcare Tenders has you covered.

Where can I source PPE Tenders? –

Healthcare Tenders sources a wide range of PPE tenders from across the UK. Our manual tracking system helps you save time by ensuring relevancy in your search. Book a free live demo.

Recent Changes –

The impact of COVID-19 and Brexit on the supply and demand of PPE tenders. Where this leaves the healthcare procurement of further PPE. A clear outline of the organisations that procure PPE.

The tender process

Selection Questionnaire –

The initial step in some PPE tenders. Looking into the minimum requirements for the buyers.

ITT/RFP –

Either the Request for Proposal (RFP) and the Invitation to Tender (ITT) will be the heart of the tender process. Aspects such as budget, adherence to legislation, and design considerations would be considered.

Presentations/Interviews – 

The last stage of the PPE tender process. The commissioning board needs to know exactly who they’re working with.

Proposed products to fulfil criteria –

Exploring the regulations for products procured outside of the E.U.

4 points to consider when it comes to PPE tenders –

  1. How do you ensure the quality of your products every time? – Considering internal method statements, staff training programmes, equipment maintenance and periodic testing as a manufacturer. If you’re a supplier, looking into vetting, random audits, and checking policies and procedures.
  2. Delivery – Buyers may want to understand the methodology for delivery, minimum order information and delivery costs. Alongside this, they’ll want reassurances that you’re providing green, sustainable supply chains.
  3. Invoicing – Ensuring that you conform to the buyer’s invoicing process. Outlining your own.
  4. Pricing – Demonstrating value for money. Generally formed into a distinct document.

2 tips to steer your PPE tenders straight

  1. Financial threshold – Ensuring that your chosen contract doesn’t exceed half of your annual revenue.
  2. Bid management – Organising a crack team to focus on each aspect of the tender. Ensuring that your team has internal deadlines for both yourself and the larger team. Setting progress meetings.  

Need help writing your next tender?

If you don’t have the resources or time to write a winning bid, why not outsource it? Our sister company, Hudson Succeed, boasts an 87% success rate and have over 60 years of collective bidding experience. They offer four bid writing support packages to help you on the path to success. Whether you’re new to tendering, or simply need someone to proof your written response before you submit – we can help.

Tender Ready

Our Tender Ready programme is designed for those who have never tendered before. This 4-week programme works with you to ensure you have everything in place to tender successfully.

Tender Improvement

Tender Improvement can help if you’re already tendering but aren’t seeing success from your current efforts. Our Bid Writers will assess your previous submissions and supporting documents. They’ll give you feedback and guidance on how to improve, helping you to secure your next PPE tender.

Tender Mentor

If you’ve written a tender and need someone to proofread it – Tender Mentor is for you. A Bid Writer will double-check it’s in line with the specification and free of any grammar or spelling mistakes.

Tender Writing

If you’ve found the perfect tender but don’t know where to start – we can help. Send the specification over to us and our Bid Team will do the rest. They’ll let you know what they need from you and provide you with a full breakdown. They’ll even submit it on your behalf, leaving you more time to focus on your business.

Contact us for more information regarding our bid management consultancy services. 

Want to save even more time?

Upgrading to Discover Elite will ensure you never miss a tendering opportunity even when you’re busy!

The Ultimate Time-Saving Tool offers your business:

  • An annual subscription to a maximum of two Discover portals of your choice.
  • Up to five bid breakdowns per month to help you make your bid or no-bid decision
  • Weekly phone calls with your Account Manager to discuss viable leads and tendering opportunities.
  • Award and pre-market engagement notices monitored on your behalf.
  • Public and private buyer portal management including registering, password management, downloading documents and assessing viability based on your bid strategy.

Contact us for more information.

 

First Aid Tenders – A Guide to Public Sector First Aid Contracts

Posted on by Jonathan Worthy

First aid tenders: A complete guide

Hudson’s Healthcare Tenders portal brings you a huge variety of healthcare-related tenders, suitable for your organisation. Healthcare Tenders is a resource designed to help you source and secure new business opportunities via the public procurement process. 

Our dedicated in-house Opportunity Trackers manually search hundreds of opportunities daily. Through our Healthcare Tenders portal, we provide you with the latest, most relevant and current contract opportunities, including first aid tenders.  

Our intuitive keyword search tool removes the complex and often misleading issue of CPV codes. Meaning that you are only presented with the specific Healthcare Tenders (i.e, first aid tenders) that you want to see. Saving your business time, resource and, most importantly, money!

There is a wide variety of first aid tenders available to you through our Healthcare Tenders portal. These are suitable for organisations of all sizes, inclusive of small-to-medium-enterprises (SMEs), charitable organisations and national healthcare agencies. 

First aid tenders tend to fall into one of the following three categories:

  • The provision of first aid at an event of stated location, i.e at an organised event, such as a music festival, etc.
  • The provision of first aid/health & safety training within the workplace, schools, community groups, etc.
  • The supply of first aid equipment to NHS hospitals, coastguards, schools, etc. 

First aid tenders are available through a number of different contract types. This will give your organisation flexibility in the tendering process. For example, you can tender for: 

To be awarded a first aid contract, you must typically pass a number of stages as part of the NHS tendering process. These stages include: 

Initially, you must pass all sections within the SQ, demonstrating how your organisation meets the buyer’s requirements. This may include providing evidence of: 

  • Policies and procedures
  • Any certifications and qualifications
  • Insurance 
  • Your organisation’s finances.

All healthcare initiatives within the public sector are highly regulated. This is because care must meet particular standards. Additionally, the public sector is accountable for how it spends public money. Local authorities and councils will, therefore, tender through ‘public sector procurement’ routes. Suppliers will be required to provide the above documentation and evidence to prove their capability to undertake the work, in accordance with first aid regulation. 

First aid tenders are typically procured by local authorities who require the provision of first aid, training or equipment within their area. Tender opportunities will typically come in the form of a framework or DPS.

As suppliers are enlisted to provide the work over an extended period of time within the local authority area.

How can Healthcare Tenders help?

Let Healthcare Tenders help you – we will make sure you stay ahead of the game; notifying you of all current first aid tenders.

Your subscription to Healthcare Tenders includes:

  • Unlimited access to the portal containing all active first aid tenders, which you can filter according to budget size, location and keywords (including such terms like ‘first aid tenders’)
  • A daily bulletin sent straight to your inbox, containing all the new contract notices our Opportunity Trackers have found that day
  • A dedicated Account Manager who will deal with all queries relating to Healthcare Tenders or to tendering in general
  • A free 20-minute phone consultation with our bid writing experts from Hudson Succeed – who can answer specific questions and provide advice and guidance related to your tendering journey.

What makes Healthcare Tenders different?

Healthcare Tenders is a time-saving tool. Our Opportunity Trackers manually search numerous sites for the latest healthcare leads and opportunities. They upload a whole range of opportunities such as single-provider contracts, NHS frameworks and DPS’. Once they are uploaded to our portal, you can filter the results by budget, keyword, location and more.

Here are five examples of first aid tenders that we’ve previously sourced on the portal: 

Health & Safety Training

Wolverhampton City Council – West Midlands – Budget: £180,000

First Aid Training 

Moray Council – Scotland – Budget: £200,000

First Aid Materials 

Education Authority NI – Northern Ireland – Budget: £520,000

Single-Party Framework Agreement for the Supply of Individual First Aid Kits

Irish Defence Forces – Republic of Ireland – Budget: £550,000

Supply & Delivery of First Aid & Medical Supplies

Lancashire County Council – North West – Budget: £758,000

We also source opportunities to bid for the following:

Book a free, live demo today.

Want to save even more time?

Upgrading to Discover Elite can help optimise your tendering efforts, even when you’re busy!

The Ultimate Time-Saving Tool offers your business:

  • An annual subscription to a maximum of two Discover portals of your choice.
  • Up to five bid breakdowns per month to help you make your bid or no-bid
  • Weekly phone calls with your Account Manager to discuss viable first aid leads and tendering opportunities.
  • Award and pre-market engagement notice monitored on your behalf.
  • Public and private buyer portal management including registering, password management, downloading documents and assessing viability based on your bid strategy.

The Pre-Bid Master package can offer your business:

  • All of the above
  • Up to seven bid breakdowns per month
  • A bespoke bidding strategy, developed by our senior bidding professionals.

Need help writing your next first aid tender?

If you don’t have the resources or time to write a winning bid, why not outsource it? Our sister company, Hudson Succeed, boasts an 87% success rate and have over 60 years of collective bidding experience. We offer four bid writing support packages that can get you on the path to success. Whether you’re new to tendering, or simply need someone to proof your written response before you submit – we can help.

Tender Ready

Our Tender Ready programme is designed for those who have never tendered before. This 4-week programme works with you to ensure you have everything in place to tender successfully.

Tender Improvement

Tender Improvement can help if you’re already tendering but aren’t seeing success from your current efforts. Our Bid Writers will assess your previous submissions and supporting documents. They’ll give you feedback and guidance on how to improve, helping you to secure your next first aid contracts.

Tender Mentor

If you’ve written a home care tender response and need someone to proofread it – Tender Mentor is for you. A Bid Writer will double-check it’s in line with the specification and free of any grammar or spelling mistakes.

Tender Writing

If you’ve found the perfect tender but don’t know where to start – we can help. Send the specification over to us and our Bid Team will do the rest. They’ll let you know what they need from you and provide you with a full Tender Writing breakdown. They’ll even submit it on your behalf, leaving you more time to focus on your business.

Get in touch to find out more information.

Get in touch

Let us help you to help others. Get in touch with Healthcare Tenders today for a free trial/free demo of the portal!

Social Care Framework Agreements

Posted on by John Hudson

How to Become a Supplier on Social Care Framework Agreements 

Social Care Framework Agreements are in continuous demand throughout the UK and further afield. The public sector, including the NHS and Local Authorities are in need of high-quality social care services within their areas.

The range of social care framework agreements are vast. Hudson Discover now operates a new Healthcare Tenders portal that brings all of these opportunities together, in one place! Hudson understand the priorities of our clients who provide Social Care services. They must prioritise their time in order to best care for their patients. Leaving less time for them to find and consider opportunities to advance and enhance their businesses.

Our portals are updated with opportunities daily by our procurement team, ensuring that suitable social care framework agreement opportunities are readily available for your business to review and make quick, easy bid/no bid decisions. This is made possible by the fact that all the tender documentation is just a click away, saving the hassle of navigating through a seemingly never-ending series of links and pages.

To become a supplier on a social care framework agreement, you need to understand the NHS tendering process. Typically, social care framework agreements will follow the typical procurement process: first an initial selection questionnaire (SQ) or pre-qualification questionnaire (PQQ) and then an ITT for those passing the first section. As part of the open procedure, the SQ procedure can be eliminated altogether, instead jumping straight into the ITT. Social care tenders tend to evaluate you on your ability to:

  • Deliver a quality, consistent service;
  • Demonstrate a person-centred approach;
  • Showcase a comprehensive understanding of incident management and safeguarding;
  • Evidence previous examples of delivering Social Care. 

This list is non-exhaustive – indeed, buyers may ask you about any element of your service.

Opportunities are available through a variety of contracts. In general, there is more demand for public sector opportunities, than private. The public sector is accountable for spending public money, so the procurement process must be transparent and regulated. 

Types of Social Care Framework Agreements

The UK currently spends over £140bn a year on the public provision of Health and over £20bn on Social Care. The healthcare sector in the UK could not run efficiently without private sector suppliers. As a result, our Healthcare Tenders portal sees a constant stream of Healthcare contract opportunities, concerning a variety of disciplines, including Social Care frameworks crop up all across the UK. 

An estimated 1 in 3 NHS clinical services tenders are won by private sector contractors. The NHS is always looking for innovative new partners and they regularly award contracts worth many thousands of pounds to the successful bidders. Types of social care framework agreements readily available via the public procurement process include:

Supported Living 

Supported living is a blend of accommodation provision and bespoke support. It gives those living in the accommodation individual tenancies, to maximise their independence. Supported Living tenders are extremely varied, from budget, to scope, to types of service user; so, you can be sure that there is one that is right for your business. There are Supported Living tenders for many different demographics, which may specify and/or comprise one or more of the following groups:

  • Young people with learning disabilities;
  • Adults with learning disabilities;
  • Care leavers aged 16+;
  • Young asylum seekers aged 16+;
  • Homeless young people;
  • Young offenders.

Supported Living premises are often grouped into the following categories:

  • Floating/flexible support (those who require less or varied levels of support);
  • Standard;
  • Complex needs (those who display risk-taking/harmful behaviours of some sort).

The varied nature of the service users who may be housed in supported living premises means that providers should have experience in caring for specific needs. Differing levels of risk/support also influence the accommodation requirements and tender specifications. It is worth browsing all available tenders and their pertaining documents, because there’s bound to be one that dovetails perfectly with your service offering and your staff’s areas of expertise.

Mental Health 

Mental Health forms an ever growing part of the Social Care industry within the UK. This has resulted in the appearance of more Mental Health Tenders being released into the public domain. As the discussion on mental health within the UK has grown within recent years, more tendering opportunities have become available via the public procurement process. This is due to the fact that more people are attempting to access community mental health services.

The NHS and leading mental health charities predict that this trajectory will rocket in the fall out of the COVID-19 pandemic. As many suffer through economic and social hardships, the likes of Mind and Mental Health UK expect the need for mental health services to rise dramatically. Our in-house opportunity trackers are already beginning to see an increase in mental health tenders appear on our Healthcare Tenders portal.

Domiciliary Care

As the lifespan of the average UK resident continues to grow, as does the need for domiciliary care. Over recent years the issuing of domiciliary care tenders has risen drastically. The personal care of the elderly and the disadvantaged and vulnerable is consistently and continuously being outsourced to private organisations. Providing opportunities to care providers of all statures – from small start-ups to large agencies.

Securing a place on Social Care Framework Agreements

Increasingly in the sector, works are being contracted in the form of a greater number of smaller contracts, typically handled by local authorities. Hence, this provides small, even start-up health and social support providers with a golden opportunity to secure a place on social care framework agreements of all varieties. Based on our experience’s, we have found the main influences on success in tendering for social care opportunities are:

  • Past Experience 

As is a common theme in the process of tendering for work, your evidence is key. Contracting authorities want to see solid evidence of your experience and competency. It is especially important to show this regarding the challenges you might face on the contract for which you are bidding. Without firm evidence, including numbers, dates, figures and details of specific challenges, you may struggle. Indeed, building up a bank of case studies to draw on, is a key first step toward winning healthcare tenders.

  • Accreditation & Qualification 

To be awarded a place on Social Care frameworks, or to be in with a realistic chance thereof, you have to be able to display appropriate accreditations and qualifications. Otherwise, you will fall at the first hurdle. Tendering authorities need to know that you’re a safe bet. They need to know that you and your team are a safe, competent and respectful pair of hands. Displaying some basic, internationally recognised qualifications quality accreditations and information security standards for your organisation will help. Accreditations such as ISO 9001 and ISO 27001, as well as appropriate NVQs (usually level 3 or above), can typically help you make the first cut in evaluation procedures and help you to reform your business with national best practice.

  • Quality Responses 

Quality is almost always the most pressing aspect of any Social Care tender. Pricing, although important, is typically of secondary consideration to most tendering authorities within this sector. We at Hudson Succeed, recently submitted a bid on behalf of a healthcare provider, which was judged on 100% quality. Meaning price was not even considered! Tendering authorities are more interested in getting a good quality service that meets the needs of service users fully, rather than a cheap service.

Providing additional evidence as part of your submission, will back up your quality responses. For example, providing policies and/or risk assessments, among other items, will inspire further confidence in your organisations ability to provide a safe, quality service.

  • Corporate Social Responsibility 

Social value is becoming more and more prevalent in all tenders, across all business sectors. Buyers want to see you demonstrate how you will bring value to their communities. Typically, this value can be brought through commitments to environmental, social and economic initiatives. 

Authorities tendering Social Care services don’t just want to see your organisation’s commitment to your service users. They also want to see your commitment to the wider picture.

Nowadays, it is very likely that you will encounter at least one question about social value or community benefits.

A strong social value response can be the difference between a strong care tender and a weak one. 

How can we help? 

If you don’t see success first time around when bidding a place on Social Care framework agreements, don’t be disheartened.

Due to the sensitive and challenging nature of this type of work, Social Care framework agreements are often accompanied by strict evaluation criteria. A failure may well not be a reflection on your company, but simply the case that a contracting authority has found someone with more specific or niche experience.

Let Healthcare Tenders help you – we will make sure you stay ahead of the game; notifying you of all current social care framework agreements out to tender. 

Below are previous social care framework agreements sourced on our portal:

Children’s Residential Care Framework

Hampshire County Council- South East- Budget: Undisclosed

Framework for the Provision of Short Break Services for Disabled Children/Young People with Special Educational Needs and Disability

Darlington Borough Council- North East- Budget: Undisclosed

Flexible Framework Agreement for Education and Social Support Services (Children and Families)

Dundee City Council- Scotland- Budget: Undisclosed

Provider Engagement Event for the Framework Agreement for the Provision of Day Opportunities for Working Age Adults and Older People

Darlington Borough Council- North East- Budget: Undisclosed

WCC – Warwickshire Care at Home Services Lot 1 Spot Purchase – 2

Coventry – Solihull – Warwickshire- West Midlands- Budget: £450,000

We source healthcare business leads for sub-sectors including:

Your subscription to Healthcare Tenders includes:

  • Unlimited access to the portal containing all active Healthcare contracts, which you can filter according to budget size, location and keywords (including such terms like, social care, supported living and mental health tenders). 
  • A daily bulletin sent straight to your inbox, containing all the new contract notices our Opportunity Trackers have found that day;
  • A dedicated Account Manager who will deal with all queries relating to Healthcare Tenders or to tendering in general;
  • A free 20-minute phone consultation with our bid writing experts from Hudson Succeed – who can answer specific questions and provide advice and guidance related to your tendering journey.

Want to receive all the social care frameworks published daily direct to your inbox?

Get in touch with Hudson Discover today for a free trial / free demo. 

Let us help you to help others. 

Now is the time for Healthcare Tenders.