Tendering for Support and Care Services
Course available: in-house only (on a date and location of your choice)
Duration: 1 day
The aim of this course is to give delegates a general introduction to local authority tendering processes, the law, regulations and practice that drives them, as well as offering a broad introduction to the most common processes and some approaches to successful tendering.
Course contains
- The background to changes in local authority procurement
- How to approach tendering with confidence
- Local Area Agreements, social care and support: the future
- Tendering and scoring processes - practice and pitfalls
- Defining quality
- Costing services
- Selling services
- Where to find further information and support.
Suitable for
This course is suitable for any staff working in housing related support and/or social care or allied voluntary sector services that may wish to develop the skills needed to tender for both new and existing contracts. It is particularly useful for any services currently funded by Supporting People or local authority grant funding.
