Care tender software that finds the right contracts and helps you bid with confidence
Care tender software helps providers find public contracts, decide which ones to bid for and prepare the response. ELSA does all three in one place: it pulls live care tenders in daily, scores each one against your organisation, shows which documents you are missing, and drafts answers from your own evidence.
Most bids are lost before anyone writes a word
Providers miss good contracts because nobody had time to check the portal. They spend a week on a bid that was never a fit. Or they find out two days before the deadline that the business continuity policy the tender asks for does not exist.
From notice to submitted bid
- Discover. Open UK care contracts from Contracts Finder, pulled in daily and filtered to care. You can also add a tender from Find a Tender or another portal by uploading its documents.
- Qualify. Each opportunity is scored on service match, geography, experience and financial capacity, with the reasoning shown so you can make a quick bid/no-bid decision.
- Prepare. ELSA checks the policies and documents the tender asks for against what you hold. Missing ones can be generated or assigned to someone in one click.
- Respond. Answers are drafted from your company profile, policies and evidence, never from invented figures. A built-in bank of 111 standard questions covers the PPN 03/24 selection questionnaire.
Social value, counted and evidenced
Log apprenticeships, local hiring, volunteering and spend with small suppliers. ELSA scores them against the UK Social Value Model and turns them into evidence you can attach to a bid, with delivered results kept separate from commitments.
Your best bid evidence is already in your compliance file
Commissioners score safeguarding, governance, workforce and quality. That evidence lives in your policies, audits and care records. Because ELSA holds both, a tender answer can cite the policy you reviewed last month, and a missing document found during a bid becomes a compliance action too. Tender-only tools start every bid from a blank library.
Fresh every day
New care opportunities are pulled in every day.
How ELSA is different
| Area | Tender portals and alerts | Bid consultants | ELSA |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finds opportunities | Yes | Sometimes | Yes, daily, filtered to care |
| Scores fit to your organisation | No | By hand | Yes, with reasons shown |
| Checks your documents against the tender | No | By hand | Yes |
| Drafts answers from your evidence | No | Yes, per bid | Yes, from your own documents |
| Connects to your compliance and social value records | No | No | Yes |
| CQC readiness, policies and care records in the same plan | No | No | Yes |
Frequently asked questions
Where do the tenders come from?
Open contracts are pulled from Contracts Finder and kept current, filtered to care services. You can also add any other tender by uploading its documents.
Can ELSA write the whole bid?
ELSA drafts answers from your own evidence. Where the evidence is missing, it does not invent a figure to fill the gap. Your team reviews, edits and submits.
Will ELSA help us win more tenders?
ELSA helps you bid for better-fit contracts and prepare stronger, evidence-based answers. We do not publish win-rate claims. Outcomes depend on the tender and your service.
Is it suitable if we have never bid before?
Yes. The fit scoring and document checks show what you need in place before you bid.
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See ELSA working on your own documents
Bring a policy, a care plan or a live tender to the demo. We will show you what ELSA finds, where the evidence comes from, and what it would suggest you do next. Book a demo or see pricing.