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We receive numerous cries of help from clients about social value – what is it? How to respond to social value questions in tenders? What do service providers actually have to deliver? And so on.

NHS Supply Chain is the organisation which manages the sourcing, delivery and supply of healthcare products and food for NHS organisations across England and Wales.

Here’s a simple thing to improve the quality of your NHS tenders. A pre-submission tender review. And ideally, by someone from outside the bid team.

We are occasionally asked to explain the ins and outs of the NHS tendering process by organisations who are new to NHS procurements. Here is a brief overview for anyone who falls into this category.

Working with external bid writing provider can increase your chances of winning an NHS contract, especially when internal resources are stretched. But are you getting the most out of the relationship?

Contracts and SQQ’s are like buses. You wait interminably for your number to come along and then all of a sudden, several arrive at once. An example. One morning last week, Prior Information Notices for ten new offender healthcare contracts were issued by NHS England. This happens to be a core area for one of our clients.

Here’s a simple thing to improve the quality of your NHS tenders. A pre-submission tender review. And ideally, by someone from outside the bid team.

You need to respond to an invitation to tender (ITT). You’ve got some relevant content from previous bids but no internal resource available to pull it all together. And you didn’t win the last couple of contracts in this area. Time to get external copywriting help?