You spent three weeks on that tender. Your team pulled late nights gathering case studies. You answered every single question. Your pricing was competitive. Then the rejection email arrived with a score that made absolutely no sense. Here’s what nobody tells you about tender mistakes: most health and social care…

Are You Ready to Bid? The Essential Checklist for Health and Social Care Providers The excitement of discovering the perfect NHS contract or local authority framework can be intoxicating. The potential revenue, service expansion opportunities, and chance to make a genuine difference seem within reach through one successful tender submission.…

These avoidable tender mistakes are costing you contracts With NHS commissioning budgets tighter than ever and local authorities increasingly selective about their care partnerships, even experienced health and social care providers are finding themselves unsuccessful in tender processes they should be winning. Recent contract award notices reveal a concerning pattern.…

Bidding Compliance: Why Good Care Providers Keep Losing Contracts Too many excellent health and social care organisations lose contracts they should easily win. Not because their care isn’t good enough or because their prices are too high but because they make simple compliance mistakes that get their bids thrown out…

10 Reasons Why You Should Use AssuredBID as Your Tender Writing Consultants and Writers Choosing the right tender writing partner can make the difference between winning life-changing contracts and watching opportunities slip away to your competitors. After seeing too many good health and social care providers lose out because of…

Mastering Government Healthcare Tenders: The Ultimate Guide to Winning Bids in 2025 Government healthcare tenders have changed dramatically in the last two years. The approaches that worked in 2022 and 2023 are failing now. The providers who are still using old methods are losing out to those who understand what…

Organisations in the UK’s healthcare and social care sectors find it critically important to bid successfully for public sector contracts, yet it is immensely challenging. The stakes are high: more than £20 billion in NHS and local authority service contracts are completed every year. An appointed professional bid writer can…

The tendering for healthcare and social care contracts in the UK can be a complex and competitive process. If you are a small provider or part of a larger organisation, learning how to put together a convincing tender bid is essential to winning contracts that will help your business survive…