Notice Information
Notice Title
National Paediatric Critical Care Audit
Notice Description
The Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) is seeking to commission an organisation that will support the delivery of the National Paediatric Critical Care Audit. The audit will be delivered nationally. The successful bidder will be required to build on the achievements of the audit to date and enhance the ability of the audit to be used for healthcare improvement.
Lot Information
Lot 1
The overarching aim is to stimulate improvements in care for patients by measuring variations in quality, experience and outcomes. During this contract period, the successful tenderer will need to build on the achievements of the audit to date and enhance the ability for the audit to be used for healthcare improvement. Data is most useful locally for healthcare improvement when its provision to clinical teams is timely, the data is refreshed regularly and appropriate tools, support and guidance accompany the data outputs. The intent is for all of these features of the audit to be implemented and improved during the period of this contract. This re-commission provides an opportunity to move the audit on from data collection for healthcare planning and research, to data driven healthcare quality improvement. Tenderers should propose five clinically important, realistic and measurable (SMART) 3-year improvement aims. Tenderers should consider improvement aims from the following areas, but can also propose aims from other areas: * Reduce: o the risk of dying o unplanned extubation rates o specialist PCC transport service refusals for urgent transfer o the number of children transferred to a unit more than two hours (travel by road) away o the central line infection rate o the length of stay for children with complex medical needs o the number of unnecessary cardiac surgery admissions to PCC Level 3 o emergency readmission rates * Increase the proportion of parents and families who have excellent care experiences (with a baseline measure) The audit supplier will work with commissioners, funders, specialised commissioning and operational delivery networks (ODNs) to create a coherent strategy for how the improvement goals listed above, or similar, will be achieved.
Options: Contract has the option to be extended for a further 2 years in addition to the initial 3 year period.
Renewal: Extension of up to 2 years.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-02d261
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/014593-2026
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Tender, Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Tender Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Open
- Procurement Method Details
- Open procedure
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Large
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
85 - Health and social work services
-
- CPV Codes
85000000 - Health and social work services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £1,079,400 £1M-£10M
- Lots Value
- £1,079,400 £1M-£10M
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- £3,281,272 £1M-£10M
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 18 Feb 20265 days ago
- Submission Deadline
- 10 Sep 2021Expired
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 6 Dec 20214 years ago
- Contract Period
- 31 Mar 2026 - 31 Mar 2027 6-12 months
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Cancelled
- Awards Status
- Active
- Contracts Status
- Active
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- HEALTHCARE QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PARTNERSHIP
- Contact Name
- Ruth Onofeghare
- Contact Email
- procurement@hqip.org.uk
- Contact Phone
- +44 7904597971
Buyer Location
- Locality
- LONDON
- Postcode
- W1G 8LZ
- Post Town
- West London
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLI London
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLI4 Inner London - East
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLI43 Haringey and Islington
- Delivery Location
- Not specified
-
- Local Authority
- Islington
- Electoral Ward
- Bunhill
- Westminster Constituency
- Islington South and Finsbury
Further Information
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