--- title: "GB-London: Exploring, understanding and evaluating experiences of Fitness to Practise at the GDC" ocid: "ocds-b5fd17-b52bb264-5f66-49ba-91dd-814b6f806f35" canonical_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-b5fd17-b52bb264-5f66-49ba-91dd-814b6f806f35" markdown_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-b52bb264-5f66-49ba-91dd-814b6f806f35.md" json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-b52bb264-5f66-49ba-91dd-814b6f806f35.json" source: "Contracts Finder" current_stage: "Tender" buyer: "GENERAL DENTAL COUNCIL" published: "2020-07-03" --- # GB-London: Exploring, understanding and evaluating experiences of Fitness to Practise at the GDC Buyer: GENERAL DENTAL COUNCIL Current stage: Tender OCID: ocds-b5fd17-b52bb264-5f66-49ba-91dd-814b6f806f35 [View canonical contract page](https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-b5fd17-b52bb264-5f66-49ba-91dd-814b6f806f35) [Download OCDS JSON](https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-b52bb264-5f66-49ba-91dd-814b6f806f35.json) ## Summary The General Dental Council is currently seeking tenders for the research project titled "Exploring, understanding and evaluating experiences of Fitness to Practise at the GDC." This project falls under the research services category and is located in London, UK. The procurement process is at the Tender stage, with a deadline for submission set for 28th July 2020. The total expected value of the contract is estimated at £130,000, and the project is anticipated to run for approximately 18 months, commencing on 1st September 2020 and concluding by 31st December 2021. The procurement method is an open procedure, allowing for broad participation. This tender presents a significant opportunity for businesses, particularly those in research services and organisations focused on healthcare, regulation, or public interest studies. Companies with experience in understanding support needs, conducting evaluations, and employing qualitative research methods would be especially well-suited to compete. Furthermore, organisations that can demonstrate expertise in the principles of right touch regulation may find this opportunity aligned with their operational goals, enabling them to contribute to meaningful improvements in the Fitness to Practise processes of the General Dental Council. ## Notice The GDC invites tenders for our research project. The research outcomes will enable us to understand and improve the experiences of those who are participants in the Fitness to Practise process (FtP), including their needs for support. It will also enable us to explore from first-person perspectives how the principles guiding our fitness to practise function are understood and applied. The aim of the research is to understand and learn from the experiences and perspectives of the people who have been directly involved in GDC fitness to practice processes in order to: -inform and underpin our work to understand and respond to the support needs of informants, witnesses and registrants as they progress through the fitness to practise process. -inform and underpin our ongoing ambitions to promote the principles of right touch regulation in our FtP processes, including proportionality, consistency and transparency. -inform our upstream strategy, which focuses on the prevention of harm rather than enforcement activity, including identifying insights to inform learning and action on the part of professionals to reduce levels of FtP concern raised. Underpinning the research aim are four primary objectives: -provide an important foundation for future research, monitoring and evaluation plans. -Understanding mechanisms and impact: to learn from participants at each stage of the FtP process what the impacts of their involvement are and what are the mechanisms for those impacts. This will include learning on how specific groups of participants in FtP are impacted differently. -Understanding support needs: to learn from all those involved in FtP cases, and particularly informants, witnesses and registrants, what their support needs are, what works to support them in the current approach and where there is need for improvement. This will include learning to support equal access and fairness for all stakeholders. -Defining right touch regulation: to understand from the perspectives of those directly involved in FtP cases what it means for a regulator to apply the principles of right touch regulation and how this feeds into and fits with the developing GDC approach to right touch regulation -Sustainability: during and as a result of the research, to develop approaches, processes and use methods that can be trialled and tested at GDC to contribute to ongoing research, monitoring and evaluation that could be adopted by GDC and used in all aspects of inquiry-based learning, reflective practice, transparent reporting and for a range of research purposes. We expect the project to last no more than 18 months. We anticipate the value of the Contract will be no more than PS130,000 including any expenses but exclusive of VAT. For further information, please see the invitation to tender documents; which are available to download from the Delta e-sourcing portal (access code: ) ## Key Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication source | Contracts Finder | | Latest notice | https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/508e5776-bbb9-4165-8644-9070e93b0d7d | | Notice type | Tender Notice | | Procurement type | Standard | | Procurement category | Services | | Procurement method | Open | | Procurement method details | Open procedure | | Tender suitability | VCSE | | Awardee scale | Not specified | | All stages | Tender | ## Dates | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication date | 3 Jul 2020 | | Submission deadline | 28 Jul 2020 | | Future notice date | Not specified | | Award date | Not specified | | Contract period | 31 Aug 2020 - 31 Dec 2021 | | Recurrence | Not specified | ## Values | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender value | £500,000 | | Lots value | Not specified | | Awards value | Not specified | | Contracts value | Not specified | ## Status | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender status | Active | | Lots status | Not specified | | Awards status | Not specified | | Contracts status | Not specified | ## Buyer | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Main buyer | GENERAL DENTAL COUNCIL | | Locality | BIRMINGHAM | | Post town | Birmingham | | Postcode | B4 6AJ | | Country | England | | ITL 1 | TLG West Midlands (England) | | ITL 2 | TLG3 West Midlands | | ITL 3 | TLG31 Birmingham | | Local authority | Birmingham | | Electoral ward | Ladywood | | Westminster constituency | Birmingham Ladywood | | Delivery location | Not specified | ## CPV Codes ### Divisions - 73 - Research and development services and related consultancy services ### Codes - 73110000 - Research services ## Release History - 3 Jul 2020 at 11:30 - Tender - Tender Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/508e5776-bbb9-4165-8644-9070e93b0d7d ## Documents - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/508e5776-bbb9-4165-8644-9070e93b0d7d 3rd July 2020 - Opportunity notice on Contracts Finder - https://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-GB-London:-Exploring%2C-understanding-and-evaluating-experiences-of-Fitness-to-Practise-at-the-GDC/ADDJ42FNMM Please follow this link to view the notice. ## Provenance This Markdown file is an alternate public rendering of the D3 Tenders contract record. 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