NHS London Procurement Partnership (LPP), hosted by Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, runs a Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) for Non-Emergency Patient Transport (NEPT) and other transport services. It’s a UK-wide DPS that’s been open since October 2019, with applications running continuously as suppliers can join at any point…

City of Doncaster Council has established a Flexible Procurement System (FPS) for the provision of Children’s Short Breaks Services. It’s an open framework designed to bring in a range of providers who can deliver personal support, unregulated support, group activities, overnight residential support and personal home care for children and…

Sheffield City Council has opened an Enhanced Care Framework worth £171.6 million for services supporting people over the age of 16 with learning disabilities and/or autism, particularly those who display behaviours that challenge and those with a mental health condition. This is an open framework procured under the Procurement Act,…

Hull City Council has opened a Pseudo-Dynamic Purchasing System (Pseudo-DPS) for the provision of Temporary Accommodation services. It’s administered through the YORtender e-procurement portal, and it’s an open DPS process, meaning providers can apply throughout the framework’s lifetime. The estimated contract value is £7,258,386, with the arrangement running under the…

Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council is running a Flexible Purchasing System (FPS) for Supported Living services for adults with learning disabilities and autism. Unlike a one-off framework, an FPS stays open for the life of the arrangement. Providers can apply at any point, and applications are evaluated in rounds at least…

Managing bids on email chains, shared folders, and last-minute spreadsheets simply doesn’t scale. As tender volumes grow and procurement rules tighten, more UK organisations are turning to bid management tools to bring order, visibility, and consistency to the process. But the market is crowded, and not every platform is built…

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…