How to Align Your Domiciliary Care Tender Submissions with Commissioning Priorities
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Why Alignment Matters
Commissioners want confidence that your service understands and aligns with local strategies, pressures, and priorities. Strong alignment is key to writing high-scoring domiciliary care tenders — it demonstrates insight, credibility, and partnership potential.
How to Strengthen Alignment in Your Submissions
Here are practical ways to ensure your tenders reflect commissioning expectations:
- Reference Local Strategies — Name and align your service approach to relevant local authority or ICS strategies on ageing well, independence, and reablement.
- Use Local Data — Reference population trends, demographics, and known challenges in the area (e.g., rurality, workforce pressures).
- Show Partnership — Evidence how you work with health, voluntary, and community partners to achieve shared goals.
- Address Pressures — Reflect understanding of commissioner challenges, such as delayed discharges, recruitment, and value for money.
- Demonstrate Outcomes — Link your success measures to commissioner priorities, like reducing hospital admissions or improving quality of life at home.