What you'll learn
How local authorities commission care services Frameworks, DPS, and spot contracts explained, Governance and compliance expectations,
Frameworks, DPS and spot contracts explained, understanding quality questions and method statements
How to find care tender opportunities, tender readiness and organisational credibiity
What commissioners look for in applications and how to position your service professionally, Common mistakes providers make when tendering
Meet the speaker
Linda Dube
Mentor | Care Business School
Linda Dube is a Registered Social Worker, Best Interests Assessor, and the Director of a CQC-registered care organisation, with over 20 years' experience across health and social care. Her background spans frontline practice, safeguarding, governance, compliance, and operational leadership and, crucially for this course, the real-world business of running and growing a regulated care service. What sets Linda apart as a mentor is that she has done what she teaches. She has built the governance and quality systems commissioners look for, written and submitted live local authority tenders, and secured places on council contracts and dynamic purchasing systems. She understands tendering from both sides of the desk: as a provider completing the applications, and as a professional who knows how commissioners think about risk, evidence, and value. Every lesson is grounded in real tenders, real scoring criteria, and the practical systems a provider actually needs. You're learning the process from someone who has navigated it successfully and can show you exactly what "tender-ready" looks like in practice.
Join the Masterclass!
The Care Tendering Blueprint is a live 90–120 minute masterclass that demystifies how local authority care tendering really works and shows you what it takes to become tender-ready as a care provider. Rather than abstract theory, the session is built around real tenders that have actually been submitted and won, so you see the process exactly as commissioners and evaluators do. Whether you're an aspiring care business owner, an existing domiciliary or supported living provider, a registered manager, or a healthcare professional moving into the sector, you'll come away understanding the landscape that so many providers find overwhelming at first. Across the session you'll learn how councils commission care and the different routes in frameworks, dynamic purchasing systems, pseudo-DPS arrangements, provider lists, and spot purchasing and how to recognise which one fits where your business is now. You'll see how tenders are actually scored, including the elimination rules that quietly remove most applicants before quality is even debated, and you'll learn the single most important skill in tendering: the difference between a generic claim and an evidenced answer that wins marks. The masterclass is structured to move from why public sector work matters, to how the system works, to a live walkthrough where a real tender question is rebuilt together using a simple, repeatable answer structure you can apply to almost any method statement. You'll leave with a clear understanding of how commissioners think, what they're really looking for, the most common mistakes that sink new providers, and what genuine tender-readiness looks like, the systems and evidence you should be building long before an opportunity ever goes live. It's a practical, grounded introduction designed to give you the confidence and clarity to approach local authority opportunities seriously, and to recognise exactly what stronger, more credible applications require. For any provider serious about growing through public sector work, this is the foundation that makes everything that follows possible.
Reserve My Place Now
If council tenders have ever left you feeling overwhelmed or unsure where to start, this is your chance to learn the process from someone who has actually built the systems and won the contracts, not from theory. In just 90 minutes, you'll gain the clarity and confidence most providers spend years trying to piece together, with no prior tendering experience needed. Places in the founding cohort are limited, so secure yours today before they're gone.
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