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How to Read a Social Care Tender Pipeline Strat...

A practical guide for adult social care providers on how to use tender pipelines strategically – to prioritise regions, time resourcing, and prepare for the 2026–2029 recommissioning wave.

Why So Many Adult Social Care Tenders Are Comin...

Many adult social care frameworks were let before or during Covid and then extended multiple times. Now, with the Procurement Act and delayed recommissioning cycles converging, 2026–2027 is shaping up...

Why Providers Will Lose Points in 2026 Without ...

From 2026, providers won’t lose tenders because of poor delivery — they’ll lose because they can’t prove what they deliver. With MAT scoring tightening under the Procurement Act 2023, KPI...

From Good Delivery to Defensible Evidence: Cont...

The Procurement Act 2023 makes contract retention a performance and evidence game. This article explains how NHS and social care providers can turn day-to-day delivery into MAT-ready evidence, how Contract...

Bid Libraries that Win Under MAT: How NHS and S...

As Procurement Act 2023 and Most Advantageous Tender (MAT) scoring bed in, recycled bid answers and messy libraries are becoming a real liability. This article explains how NHS and social...

The Tender Within the Tender: How Leadership To...

Commissioners don’t just read your bid for answers — they read it for confidence. This article explores how tone, phrasing and narrative voice reveal leadership quality, showing how to write...