Tender

National Paediatric Diabetes Audit

HEALTHCARE QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PARTNERSHIP LTD

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02 Mar 2026 at 14:38

Summary of the contracting process

The Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership Ltd is overseeing a tender for the National Paediatric Diabetes Audit, aimed at stimulating improvements in paediatric diabetes care across NHS-funded facilities in England and Wales and publicly funded care in Jersey. This open procurement process, classified under health services, invites bids for this three-year contract with a core budget of £1,103,361 including VAT, excluding potential extensions. The tender submission deadline is 1st April 2026 at noon, with an enquiry period concluding on 18th March 2026. This active procurement is in the tender stage and involves a robust audit to enhance healthcare delivery and outcomes, benchmarked against national standards such as those from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE).

This tender represents a significant opportunity for businesses specialising in healthcare information management, clinical auditing, and data analysis to contribute to national healthcare improvement strategies. SMEs and VCSEs are encouraged to participate. Businesses proficient in statistical methodologies, patient engagement, and healthcare provider collaborations are well-suited to effectively compete for this contract. The audit programme requires strong project management skills, a commitment to data quality and governance, and a capacity to deliver timely, high-quality audit outputs, offering an excellent avenue for growth to firms aligning with these requirements.

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Notice Title

National Paediatric Diabetes Audit

Notice Description

The contract will initially be delivered for NHS-funded care in England, Wales, and publicly funded care in Jersey for a period of 3 years, at a maximum total budget of up to PS1,103,361 including VAT, PS1,138,669 excluding VAT. Bids exceeding this limit may be rejected. There is the potential to extend this contract for up to 24 months. All pricing submissions must be in regard to this 'core' value, and not inclusive of any extension costs or aspirational intent costs, i.e. Please only submit a cost schedule up to the maximum core value of PS1,103,361 including VAT, PS1,138,669 excluding VAT. The maximum budget 'core' value of PS1,103,361 including VAT, PS1,138,669 excluding VAT excludes the potential two year extension and aspirational intent as described in section 14.4 of Annex A - Service Specification. Please note, there is no commitment by the Authority at this stage to include any aspirational intent measures. Taking the total of this aspirational intent into account, as well as the possibility that a contract extension may be offered for an additional two years, the potential ceiling value is PS6,376,600 GBP including VAT, PS5,313,917 GBP excluding VAT. The role of a national clinical audit is to stimulate healthcare improvement through the provision of high quality information on the organisation, delivery and outcomes of healthcare, together with tools and support to enable healthcare providers and other audiences to make best use of this information. Outcomes are benchmarked against national guidance and standards e.g. quality standards from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), and those from other established professional and patient sources. Successful national audits are those where the individuals providing the data are also in a position to improve the system, and there is a shared understanding of what good care looks like. The overarching aim is to stimulate improvements in care for children and young people (CYP) with paediatric diabetes who receive care from Paediatric Diabetes Units (PDUs), by measuring variations in quality, experience and outcomes of NHS care in England and Wales, and publicly funded care in Jersey. 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. *The term CYP (Children and Young People) will be used throughout this notice to refer to children, adolescents and young people up to 24 years (treated within a Paediatric Diabetes Unit (PDU)). This audit programme is expected to: *Develop a robust, high-quality audit designed around 10 key quality metrics likely to best support local and national healthcare quality improvement *Detect, describe and help reduce unwarranted clinical variation by systematically benchmarking performance, identifying outliers, and supporting services to understand variation in outcomes, processes and experience *Achieve, articulate and maintain close alignment with relevant NICE national guidance and quality standards throughout the audit, as appropriate *Enable healthcare quality improvement through the provision of timely, high-quality data that compares providers of healthcare, and comprises an integrated mixture of named Trust or Health board, Integrated Care System (ICS), commissioner, multidisciplinary team (MDT), possibly consultant or clinical team level and other levels of reporting *Be clinically led *Engage patients, carers and the public in a meaningful way, achieving a strong patient voice which informs and contributes to the design, functioning, outputs and direction of the audit *Consider the value and feasibility of linking data at an individual patient level to other relevant national datasets either from the outset or in the future, and plan for these linkages from the inception of the contract *Ensure robust methodological and statistical input at all stages of the audit *Identify from the outset the full range of audiences for the reports and other audit outputs, and plan and tailor them accordingly *Provide audit results in a timely, accessible and meaningful manner to support healthcare quality improvement, minimising the reporting delay and providing continual access to each unit for their own data *Utilise strong and effective project and programme management to deliver audit outputs on time and within budget *Develop and maintain strong engagement with local clinicians, networks, commissioners, patients, their families and carers as well as charity and community support groups to drive improvements in services. The anticipated outputs are: *Quarterly interactive metric results *Publication of an annual state of the nation report *Quality improvement resources *The identification and notification of outliers in line with HQIP and provider policies. The provider shall apply the agreed statistical methodology for outlier detection and identify units, ICBs or health boards that demonstrate performance significantly below expected levels on key NPDA indicators. *One published spotlight report to be decided by the NPDA dataset and methodology group in conjunction with HQIP and funders *One published PREM report to be decided by the NPDA dataset and methodology group in conjunction with HQIP and funder *Hybrid closed loop work in collaboration with NHSE HCL implementation plan To respond to this opportunity, please visit https://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/B249J9GYMY

Publication & Lifecycle

Open Contracting ID
ocds-h6vhtk-065fd2
Publication Source
Find A Tender Service
Latest Notice
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/018523-2026
Current Stage
Tender
All Stages
Tender

Procurement Classification

Notice Type
UK4 - Tender Notice
Procurement Type
Standard
Procurement Category
Services
Procurement Method
Open
Procurement Method Details
Open procedure
Tender Suitability
SME, VCSE
Awardee Scale
Not specified

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

CPV Divisions

85 - Health and social work services


CPV Codes

85100000 - Health services

Notice Value(s)

Tender Value
£5,313,917 £1M-£10M
Lots Value
£5,313,917 £1M-£10M
Awards Value
Not specified
Contracts Value
Not specified

Notice Dates

Publication Date
2 Mar 20261 weeks ago
Submission Deadline
1 Apr 20263 weeks to go
Future Notice Date
Not specified
Award Date
Not specified
Contract Period
29 Apr 2027 - 31 Mar 2030 2-3 years
Recurrence
Not specified

Notice Status

Tender Status
Active
Lots Status
Active
Awards Status
Not Specified
Contracts Status
Not Specified

Contracting Authority (Buyer)

Main Buyer
HEALTHCARE QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PARTNERSHIP LTD
Contact Name
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Contact Email
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Contact Phone
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Buyer Location

Locality
LONDON
Postcode
EC1V 2NX
Post Town
Central 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

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