Planning for bid success

How does planning increase your chance of submitting a winning bid?

At HealthBid, we help our clients plan winning bids. As the UK’s leading specialist healthcare bid writing company, we know from experience that clients who build in appropriate planning time as part of their bid preparation increase the quality of their next submission.

Whether you have weeks or months until your next bid we can help you plan and prepare smarter. Through getting to know you and your team’s vision for the opportunity and sharing our key knowledge and insight into the healthcare sector, we can help you shape your approach using our bid readiness tools to increase your chances of success.

Download our bid planning white paper

Time spent on bid planning is never wasted and we know that well-planned bids have a greater probability of winning, save you time and strengthen your internal team’s approach.

Download our FREE HealthBid Insights white paper today to learn how to plan effectively for your next opportunity and find out how HealthBid can help you overcome your barriers to bid success.

Our Bid Planning Services

Our team work exclusively in the healthcare sector and have extensive knowledge, skills and experience planning and delivering winning healthcare bids. From first contact, our sales and senior bid team will work with you to establish where we can add the most value to your bid planning and preparation. Depending on your requirements we will provide you with the right team members, tools, and expertise to achieve your goals.

Capture Planning

Helping you drill down into the opportunity, examine your preparedness, explore your competitors and discuss your financial approach using a combination of tools and workshops. Our detailed report will enable you to make informed decisions about the next stage of the bidding process.

Gap Analysis

Helping you identify strengths and analyse gaps against our extensive experience of optimising responses to tender specifications and Commissioner scoring matrices. This process empowers you with a plan of action to develop your business before you undertake your next bid.

Solution Design

With our breadth of experience, technical expertise and subject matter experts we can support you to illustrate, iterate and refine your service model and solution design to give you the best chance of success in your bid.

Making Bid No-Bid Decisions

With our expertise and range of bid readiness planning activities, we can help you decide whether you’re ready to bid for a contract and inform your bid no-bid decision making.

Stakeholder Engagement

We are experienced in coordinating stakeholder engagement events and activities from patients to staff, to engaging diverse stakeholders in Integrated Care Systems.

Training & Developing

Based on our experience and success, we can support your team to develop and improve your bidding skills. From specific training on the bid and tender process to general team development, training and facilitation – we are flexible to meet your needs.

Meet our Plan team

Our Plan team are experienced in facilitation and managing complex projects with extensive experience in the NHS. Together, we have delivered a combined total of hundreds of projects worth billions of pounds to our clients.

Our specialist Plan team are here to ready you for your next opportunity and support you in your journey to bid success.

Tom

Managing Director

Tom is the Managing Director at HealthBid and with 17 years’ experience in healthcare and private sector roles, he brings a wealth of indispensable knowledge to the team.

Tom has a strong understanding of the healthcare landscape and the strategic context within which our clients operate. He specialises in commercial planning, helping you to establish your market positioning, develop your all-important win themes, and understand your commercial identity. Tom also helps clients to strengthen and focus their presentation skills for Commissioners.

David

Plan Associate & Director

David is a Director at HealthBid, with 14 years of experience in Bid Management and 10 years’ experience in Health and Social Care.

David has specialist experience in Stakeholder management and engagement and supporting organisations to build partnerships and develop working relationships, ensuring they're in the best position to grow.

David has a specialist interest in organisation dynamics and care models, including the emergence of Integrated Care Systems.

Alison

Plan Associate & Clinical Expert

Alison is a medical doctor and university lecturer with over 16 years’ experience in healthcare, she supports with the delivery of Plan activities at HealthBid.

Alison has specialist experience in designing clinical models and integrating solution design. She also supports teams with development, teamwork, and leadership skills to strengthen working relationships and improve output.

Mike

Director and Chief Operating Officer

Mike is a Director and the Chief Operating Officer at HealthBid, with 14 years of experience in healthcare bid management.

Mike has an in-depth knowledge of change management and has a wealth of experience in leading teams through change. Mike helps to shape and empower talented people and effective cultures, and builds teams, processes, and creates tools to achieve time sensitive goals.

Rebecca

Deputy Chief Operating Officer

Rebecca is the Deputy Chief Operating Officer at HealthBid, with 6 years of experience in healthcare bid management.

Rebecca works with Mike on operational and leadership duties, supporting on capacity planning and the strategic personal development of the wider team through internal mentorship programmes, and process learning, to ensure our clients are getting the best quality output as they begin planning for their next opportunity.

Plan case studies

Our happy clients

"I have really appreciated
your personal and
team's support

You’ve been amazing, particularly under tricky circumstances. Huge thank you”

Alison Armstrong, Senior Programme Lead for Emergency and Urgent Care at ESNEFT

“Slimming World has used the services of HealthBid and have always been satisfied with their performance.

We commissioned HealthBid to write bids, as well as to review a bid that our team had written. We found the HealthBid team to be knowledgeable and supportive. The answers that they wrote were to a high standard, and enabled us to make some significant wins in a competitive market. We would (and have!) recommended HealthBid to others.”

Paul Sharpe, Partnerships Manager, Slimming World

"We engaged with HealthBid as an emerging GP Federation starting to look at bidding for healthcare contracts.

HealthBid were great at applying their systematic methodology to guide us through the process of developing detailed and comprehensive bids for a number of healthcare tenders. Their knowledge of procurement processes really helped us to have a better understanding of what would be expected from us. HealthBid are personable and knowledgeable and make you feel at ease throughout the bid writing process.”

Kate Brentley, Managing Director, West Wakefield GP Federation

"HealthBid have helped us with building tender responses and we have been impressed by the dynamic approach to getting the job done.

The way they are able to pick up quickly what we need to build into our response has been great and has meant we can concentrate on what we are good at, and the pricing of tender.”

Tom Hulbert, Innova Care Concepts

"It’s been a pleasure working with the HealthBid team.

Their input, experience and dedication has helped to deliver a fantastic outcome in which we couldn’t have scored any higher.”

Director, Surgical Specialists

"HealthBid have
always been very
professional and
thorough in their work.

They always deliver on timelines and the knowledgable and talented bid writing team produce excellent work.

Nothing is too much trouble and they take complex information and turn it into comprehensive bid responses.”

Sarah Everest – Strategy Director, OneMedical Group

Where to start

Whether you know exactly what you are looking for or have no idea where to start to plan for your next winning bid, we can help.

Our fee for bid planning depends on a range of factors, including the size and complexity of the tender opportunity. For a free, no-obligation quote, contact our sales team today on 0113 479 0803, email info@healthbid.co.uk or fill out the below contact form and a member of our sales team will be happy to help.

Planning for bid success

How does planning increase your chance of submitting a winning bid?

Download our bid planning white paper