--- title: "Care Home Quality Changes" ocid: "ocds-b5fd17-c026318d-b209-45b3-89c3-d34446c77d9a" canonical_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-b5fd17-c026318d-b209-45b3-89c3-d34446c77d9a" markdown_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-c026318d-b209-45b3-89c3-d34446c77d9a.md" json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-c026318d-b209-45b3-89c3-d34446c77d9a.json" source: "Contracts Finder" current_stage: "Tender" buyer: "CARE QUALITY COMMISSION" published: "2017-12-30" --- # Care Home Quality Changes Buyer: CARE QUALITY COMMISSION Current stage: Tender OCID: ocds-b5fd17-c026318d-b209-45b3-89c3-d34446c77d9a [View canonical contract page](https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-b5fd17-c026318d-b209-45b3-89c3-d34446c77d9a) [Download OCDS JSON](https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-c026318d-b209-45b3-89c3-d34446c77d9a.json) ## Summary The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is currently seeking bids for a project titled "Care Home Quality Changes," which falls under the research services category and is located in London, United Kingdom. With a budget range of £15,000 to £25,000, the procurement method used is a limited competitive quotation process below the threshold. The tender period concludes on 16 January 2018, at 17:00, with the subsequent contract expected to start on 2 February 2018 and run until 30 March 2018. This tender presents opportunities for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and voluntary, community, and social enterprises (VCSEs) specialised in research services, particularly those with experience in social research and analysis of care home data. Businesses that can utilise machine learning and provide insights into quality improvement in adult social care should consider submitting a bid, as their expertise aligns with the CQC's strategic priority to enhance inspection intelligence through data analytics. ## Notice One of CQC's four strategic priorities is to become more intelligence driven; a key component of this is to use intelligence to prioritise which adult social care services should be inspected. As part of this goal, CQC together with partner organisations have estimated machine learning models to predict ratings of residential and nursing care homes using a variety of quantitative data. Data for approximately 16,000 care homes were available for this work, including: * Overall ratings data from CQC's inspections; most care homes have received only one inspection rating. Ratings were aggregated into two classes for the purpose of this work. * Monthly time series data on the number of notifications received by CQC on events that care home providers are required to report (e.g. deaths, serious injuries etc.) * Data on bed occupancy, staffing and funding sources of residents. These are collected at irregular time periods, typically but not always within a three-month period prior to inspection. * Static characteristics of care homes (type of care home, bed capacity, service user characteristics, regional location etc.) * Socio-economic characteristics of care homes' local areas * Certifications and results of inspections by third parties (e.g. Foods Standards Agency) The following classifiers were tested: logistic regression, linear discriminant analysis, support vector classification, random forest, oblique random forest. We were able to achieve a 60% true positive rate with a 5% false positive rate. Additional information: The requirement is set out in the Statement of Requirements of the tender document available at CQC e-Sourcing Portal: https://cqc-commercial.bravosolution.co.uk If your organisation does not already have an account on the portal, please select 'Register Free' and complete the company information to request a user name and password. On receipt of your account details, you may search for this opportunity by by project name of Care Home Quality Changes and select 'Register Interest'. To be considered as a Bidder you must complete and submit a Bid by the deadline of 17:00 16 January 2018. Please allow sufficient time to make your return as late returns will not be permitted by the system. ## Key Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication source | Contracts Finder | | Latest notice | https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/005126d5-ca18-4943-a29c-4ea534917563 | | Notice type | Tender Notice | | Procurement type | Standard | | Procurement category | Services | | Procurement method | Limited | | Procurement method details | Competitive quotation (below threshold) | | Tender suitability | SME, VCSE | | Awardee scale | Not specified | | All stages | Tender | ## Dates | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication date | 30 Dec 2017 | | Submission deadline | 16 Jan 2018 | | Future notice date | Not specified | | Award date | Not specified | | Contract period | 2 Feb 2018 - 30 Mar 2018 | | Recurrence | Not specified | ## Values | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender value | £25,000 | | 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 | CARE QUALITY COMMISSION | | Locality | NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE | | Post town | Newcastle upon Tyne | | Postcode | NE1 4PA | | Country | England | | ITL 1 | TLC North East (England) | | ITL 2 | TLC4 Northumberland, Durham and Tyne & Wear | | ITL 3 | TLC43 Tyneside | | Local authority | Newcastle upon Tyne | | Electoral ward | Monument | | Westminster constituency | Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West | | Delivery location | TLI London | ## CPV Codes ### Divisions - 73 - Research and development services and related consultancy services - 79 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security - 98 - Other community, social and personal services ### Codes - 73110000 - Research services - 79315000 - Social research services - 98000000 - Other community, social and personal services ## Release History - 30 Dec 2017 at 14:50 - Tender - Tender Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/005126d5-ca18-4943-a29c-4ea534917563 ## Documents - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/005126d5-ca18-4943-a29c-4ea534917563 30th December 2017 - Opportunity notice on Contracts Finder ## Notice URLs - https://cqc-commercial.bravosolution.co.uk ## Provenance This Markdown file is an alternate public rendering of the D3 Tenders contract record. 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