Notice Information
Notice Title
Future Independent Voice for Social Care in Peterborough (Healthwatch)
Notice Description
Peterborough City Council is inviting potential providers to attend a market engagement event to help shape the future of independent voice and engagement for Adult Social Care in Peterborough. We want to hear from organisations with experience of listening to people, engaging communities, gathering insight, and ensuring that residents' voices influence how services are designed and improved. Your feedback will help us test our proposed approach and understand how the market could support a future service from April 2027 Current Context Healthwatch Cambridgeshire and Peterborough to deliver the statutory local Healthwatch function in line with the Health and Social Care Act. Under this arrangement Healthwatch Cambridgeshire and Peterborough act as an independent champion for residents when it comes to health and social care services. They ensure local people's voices are heard and used to improve care across our communities. This contract expires in April 2027. Should it become law, the NHS Modernisation Bill will remove PCC's statutory duty to establish a local Healthwatch covering health and care services. Instead local authorities will have a broader duty in relation coproduction of social care services. The Future Service Despite these changes, PCC want to ensure that, from April 2027, there is still an independent voice for local people using Adult Social Care services. At a minimum, Key deliverables will be: - Providing a route for feedback into the council - Ensuring the voice of those impacted contributes to council decisions relating to Social Care. - Analysis and presentation of themes, creating a picture of local demand, priorities and areas for improvement - Support a range of partnership boards, focused on key local priorities and areas of need - Establish a visible, trusted presence in Peterborough. - Broad engagement of all people and communities in Peterborough, ensuring there is a representative voice - Establishing a strong feedback loop, where people are clear on the impact their voice is having Timeline PCC's existing contract with Healthwatch Cambridgeshire and Peterborough expires of 31st March 2027. As such, we are currently aiming to launch the ITT for the new service in September 2026. Event We would really value the input and feedback of potential providers on the proposed model. We will be holding a market engagement event for interested providers on Tuesday 4th August. The event will cover: - The proposed service model - Provider expectations - Details on the procurement timeline and process - An opportunity for potential providers to ask questions The event will be held online. If you are interested in the service, please sign-up via the following link: https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=ZLMn4x4EUUyC8skGp4-cyW0QOseriUVAnOGVvKkwZOBUNjZVMFdCU0xWRFc0QjZTWlUzNFkxVkFFTS4u&route=shorturl The ProContract page can be found here: https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert?advertId=bd45868a-957e-f111-813c-005056b64545
Planning Information
Peterborough City Council is inviting potential providers to attend a market engagement event to help shape the future of independent voice and engagement for Adult Social Care in Peterborough. We want to hear from organisations with experience of listening to people, engaging communities, gathering insight, and ensuring that residents' voices influence how services are designed and improved. Your feedback will help us test our proposed approach and understand how the market could support a future service from April 2027 Current Context Healthwatch Cambridgeshire and Peterborough to deliver the statutory local Healthwatch function in line with the Health and Social Care Act. Under this arrangement Healthwatch Cambridgeshire and Peterborough act as an independent champion for residents when it comes to health and social care services. They ensure local people's voices are heard and used to improve care across our communities. This contract expires in April 2027. Should it become law, the NHS Modernisation Bill will remove PCC's statutory duty to establish a local Healthwatch covering health and care services. Instead local authorities will have a broader duty in relation coproduction of social care services. The Future Service Despite these changes, PCC want to ensure that, from April 2027, there is still an independent voice for local people using Adult Social Care services. At a minimum, Key deliverables will be: - Providing a route for feedback into the council - Ensuring the voice of those impacted contributes to council decisions relating to Social Care. - Analysis and presentation of themes, creating a picture of local demand, priorities and areas for improvement - Support a range of partnership boards, focused on key local priorities and areas of need - Establish a visible, trusted presence in Peterborough. - Broad engagement of all people and communities in Peterborough, ensuring there is a representative voice - Establishing a strong feedback loop, where people are clear on the impact their voice is having Timeline PCC's existing contract with Healthwatch Cambridgeshire and Peterborough expires of 31st March 2027. As such, we are currently aiming to launch the ITT for the new service in September 2026. Event We would really value the input and feedback of potential providers on the proposed model. We will be holding a market engagement event for interested providers on Tuesday 4th August. The event will cover: - The proposed service model - Provider expectations - Details on the procurement timeline and process - An opportunity for potential providers to ask questions The event will be held online. If you are interested in the service, please sign-up via the following link: https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=ZLMn4x4EUUyC8skGp4-cyW0QOseriUVAnOGVvKkwZOBUNjZVMFdCU0xWRFc0QjZTWlUzNFkxVkFFTS4u&route=shorturl Those interested in attending must sign-up via the above MS Form link ahead of the event on August 4th 2026 at 10am. The ProContract page is available here: https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert?advertId=bd45868a-957e-f111-813c-005056b64545 Any queries concerning the event must be submitted via ProContract.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-06c93a
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/065474-2026
- Current Stage
- Planning
- All Stages
- Planning
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Not Specified
- Procurement Method Details
- Not specified
- Tender Suitability
- SME, VCSE
- Awardee Scale
- Not specified
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
-
- CPV Codes
85000000 - Health and social work services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- Not specified
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 13 Jul 20262 days ago
- Submission Deadline
- Not specified
- Future Notice Date
- 4 Aug 20263 weeks to go
- Award Date
- Not specified
- Contract Period
- 31 Mar 2027 - 31 Mar 2030 3-4 years
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Planning
- Lots Status
- Planning
- Awards Status
- Not Specified
- Contracts Status
- Not Specified
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- PETERBOROUGH CITY COUNCIL
- Contact Name
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
- Contact Email
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
- Contact Phone
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
Buyer Location
- Locality
- PETERBOROUGH
- Postcode
- PE2 8TY
- Post Town
- Peterborough
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLH East (England)
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLH4 Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLH41 Peterborough
- Delivery Location
- TLH11 Peterborough
-
- Local Authority
- Peterborough
- Electoral Ward
- Fletton and Stanground
- Westminster Constituency
- North West Cambridgeshire
Further Information
Notice Documents
-
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/065474-2026
13th July 2026 - Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
Notice URLs
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