Award

Tell us about Your Care Partnerships

CARE QUALITY COMMISSION

This public procurement record has 2 releases in its history.

Award

26 Jun 2023 at 14:16

Tender

27 Feb 2023 at 15:15

Summary of the contracting process

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has recently completed a procurement process for the project titled "Tell us about Your Care Partnerships" in the services category. The tender, initiated as a part of an open procedure, aimed to establish partnerships with national voluntary organisations to enhance access to people's care experiences. The procurement involved selecting suppliers to provide ongoing qualitative information about individual experiences of care at health and social care services in England. The contract, which is awarded for 12 months with a possible extension up to 24 months, was targeted at specific expertise not readily available through current government procurement channels. The CQC's focus on gathering critical information for enhancing care standards underlines the importance of the project.

Businesses well-suited for this tender opportunity are those experienced in public-opinion polling, statistical services, advertising, social research, market research, and survey services within the UK region. The competitive nature of the procurement, with specific quality and price criteria, offers growth prospects to SMEs with relevant expertise in providing qualitative information services. The project's emphasis on ongoing promotion and project management signifies a long-term partnership opportunity for suppliers to contribute to improving care quality standards in health and social care services in England. The clear emphasis on unique expertise requirements and potential contract extensions highlights a stable revenue stream for suppliers engaging in this tender.

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Notice Title

Tell us about Your Care Partnerships

Notice Description

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent regulatory of health and adult social care in England. CQC is responsible for monitoring and inspecting these services to ensure they are providing care that is safe, effective, caring and responsive to people's needs and well-led listening to acting on people's experiences of care is vital to CQC's work, as it helps us to decide when, where and what to inspect, supports better registration, inspection, judgements and ratings, and result in better information for the public. Since 2012 CQC has established a number of partnerships with national voluntary organisations, known as 'Tell us Partnerships' in order to increase our access to people's experiences of care via organisations that are already working with and hearing from people on an ongoing basis.

Lot Information

Lot 1

CQC Reference CQC EP&S 023 - The direct supply of CQC Share Your Experience webforms on a continuous basis will provide qualitative information from members of the public about individual experiences of care at named health and social care services subject to regulation by CQC. The supplier must already hear from members of the public reporting experiences of care at named health and social care services across England as part of existing business functions. The supply should be existing rather than something that has to be stimulated. Ongoing supply of Share Your Experience webforms completed by the supplier on behalf of a member of the public Individual relevant experiences to be identified, summarised and converted into a supply of webforms by trained helpline staff of organisations already delivering a national helpline service to people who use health and care services and their loved ones and carers. Ongoing promotion of the Share Your Experience webform, of CQC, our role and purpose, and our narrative about why CQC needs information about people's experiences of care to prevent poor care happening to others, to those seeking helpline services. Project management of the partnership within the contractor's organisation, helpline delivery, helpline supervision, communications and promotion, quality assurance and evaluation.

Further information can be found at: https://www.cqc.org.uk/get-involved/share-your-experience/tell-us-about-your-care-partnerships

The contract is awarded for an initial period of 12 months with an option to extend for up to 24 months.

Due to the likely specialist nature of the requirements, CQC considers that this specific expertise is not widely available through current government procurement channels or frameworks, the procurement will follow the Open procedure as defined by the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Regulation 27).

Options: Option to extend for up to a further 24 months for a total contract term of 36 months including optional extension.

Renewal: Initial term is 12 month, with option to extend for up to a further 24 months at 12 month intervals (1+1+1) for a total contract term of 36 months including optional extensions

Publication & Lifecycle

Open Contracting ID
ocds-h6vhtk-03ac83
Publication Source
Find A Tender Service
Latest Notice
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/018131-2023
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
SME

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

CPV Divisions

79 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security


CPV Codes

79300000 - Market and economic research; polling and statistics

79310000 - Market research services

79311000 - Survey services

79315000 - Social research services

79320000 - Public-opinion polling services

79330000 - Statistical services

79340000 - Advertising and marketing services

Notice Value(s)

Tender Value
£250,000 £100K-£500K
Lots Value
£250,000 £100K-£500K
Awards Value
Not specified
Contracts Value
£93,000 Under £100K

Notice Dates

Publication Date
26 Jun 20232 years ago
Submission Deadline
29 Mar 2023Expired
Future Notice Date
Not specified
Award Date
15 May 20232 years ago
Contract Period
30 Apr 2023 - 30 Apr 2026 3-4 years
Recurrence
Next procurement procedure due to commence 2025

Notice Status

Tender Status
Complete
Lots Status
Cancelled
Awards Status
Active
Contracts Status
Active

Contracting Authority (Buyer)

Main Buyer
CARE QUALITY COMMISSION
Contact Name
Commercial and Contracts Team
Contact Email
commercialcontracts@cqc.org.uk
Contact Phone
+44 3000616161

Buyer Location

Locality
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
Postcode
NE1 4PA
Post Town
Newcastle upon Tyne
Country
England

Major Region (ITL 1)
TLC North East (England)
Basic Region (ITL 2)
TLC4 Northumberland, Durham and Tyne & Wear
Small Region (ITL 3)
TLC43 Tyneside
Delivery Location
Not specified

Local Authority
Newcastle upon Tyne
Electoral Ward
Monument
Westminster Constituency
Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West

Supplier Information

Number of Suppliers
2
Supplier Names

CARERS

PATIENTS ASSOCIATION

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