Notice Information
Notice Title
Provision of a Local Healthwatch Service
Notice Description
Local Healthwatch The aim of local Healthwatch is to give citizens and communities a stronger voice to influence and challenge how health and social care services are provided within their locality. Local Healthwatch are funded by and accountable to local authorities. Their statutory functions are: 1. Promoting and supporting the involvement of local people in the commissioning, the provision and scrutiny of local care services 2. Enabling local people to monitor the standard of provision of local care services and whether and how local care services could and ought to be improved. 3. Obtaining the views of local people regarding their needs for, and experiences of, local care services and importantly to make these views known, sharing these reports with commissioners and to relevant strategic boards( e.g such as but not limited to St Helens People's Board) 4. Making reports and recommendations about how local care services could or ought to be improved within an overall framework that recognises financial constraints. These should be directed to commissioners and providers of care services, and people responsible for managing or scrutinising local care services and shared with Healthwatch England 5. Providing advice and information about access to local care services so choices can be made about local care services. 6. Formulating views on the standard of provision and whether and how the local care services could and ought to be improved; and sharing these views with Healthwatch England and local authority commissioners. 7. Making recommendations to Healthwatch England to advise the Care Quality Commission to conduct special reviews or investigations (or, where the circumstances justify doing so, making such recommendations direct to the CQC); and to make recommendations to Healthwatch England to publish reports about particular issues. 8. Providing Healthwatch England with the intelligence and insight it needs to enable it to perform effectively.
Lot Information
Lot 1
Direct Award as after testing the market no suitable providers were available.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-0523a6
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/026690-2025
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Award Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Limited
- Procurement Method Details
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Not specified
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
98 - Other community, social and personal services
-
- CPV Codes
98000000 - Other community, social and personal services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- Not specified
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- £1,171,786 £1M-£10M
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 23 May 20259 months ago
- Submission Deadline
- Not specified
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 22 May 20259 months ago
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Not Specified
- Awards Status
- Active
- Contracts Status
- Active
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- ST HELENS COUNCIL
- Contact Name
- peter smith
- Contact Email
- peter.smith@star-procurement.gov.uk
- Contact Phone
- Not specified
Buyer Location
- Locality
- ST HELENS
- Postcode
- WA10 1HP
- Post Town
- Warrington
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLD North West (England)
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLD7 Merseyside
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLD71 East Merseyside
- Delivery Location
- TLD71 East Merseyside
-
- Local Authority
- St. Helens
- Electoral Ward
- St Helens Town Centre
- Westminster Constituency
- St Helens South and Whiston
Further Information
Notice URLs
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
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