Northamptonshire Children's Trust

How to win their contracts

Measured from Northamptonshire Children's Trust's own published record — no estimates, no generic advice.

• Plan for about 33 days to prepare a bid — that is the median gap between publication and deadline across 5 of their tenders.
• They publish about 0.4 tenders a month, measured over 68 months of history.
• Half of their 13 awarded contracts are worth £24m or less — size your bid to that range.
• Most of their buying falls in health and social work services, business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing, security, education and training services.
• Their most frequent suppliers are The Twilight Care Group Limited (2), Action for Children Services Limited (2) — expect to bid against incumbents who already know this buyer.