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.

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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.

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Practical Resources to Strengthen Your Approach

Explore targeted resources to improve your domiciliary care tenders:

➡️ Domiciliary Care Method Statements Collection
➡️ Strategy Collection
➡️ Bid Strategy & Training for Social Care Providers

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Written by Mike Harrison, Founder of Impact Guru Ltd — specialists in bid writing and strategy for social care providers

Visit impact-guru.co.uk to browse downloadable strategies, method statements, or get in touch about tender support.