--- title: "DHSC:ASC:Evaluation of the Better Care Fund" ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-036b03" canonical_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-h6vhtk-036b03" markdown_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-036b03.md" json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-036b03.json" source: "Find A Tender Service" current_stage: "Planning" buyer: "DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE" published: "2022-09-23" --- # DHSC:ASC:Evaluation of the Better Care Fund Buyer: DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE Current stage: Planning OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-036b03 [View canonical contract page](https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-h6vhtk-036b03) [Download OCDS JSON](https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-036b03.json) ## Summary The Department of Health and Social Care is planning a procurement process for evaluation consultancy services under the title "DHSC: ASC: Evaluation of the Better Care Fund." The procurement falls under the health and social work services industry category and is expected to have a contract start date in November 2023 for a 2-year period. Interested suppliers are invited to provide feedback on the proposed strategy by registering through the supplier portal and responding to a market engagement activity. This tender provides an opportunity for businesses specializing in evaluation consultancy services to compete for a contract with the Department of Health and Social Care. The procurement aims to support the Better Care Fund by evaluating the effectiveness of support programmes and driving continuous improvement in service delivery. Businesses with expertise in health and social work services, especially in evaluation and policy development, are well-suited to participate in this tender process and contribute to the Department's goal of enhancing care delivery and promoting collaboration across health, social care, and housing sectors. ## Notice The main aim of this project is to outline the criteria and benefits of a separately-funded, independent, external evaluation which will run in parallel alongside delivery of the expanded BCF external support programme ### Lot Information Lot 1 The Better Care Fund externally commissioned support programme supports Local Systems to deliver their BCF plans by providing expert support to areas integrating health, social care and wider services, to enable more people to live well and independently at home. As well as being important to the delivery of the wider BCF programme, this also supports good practice approaches to hospital discharge and recovery services, while helping to release hospital bed capacity. Key to the success of the BCF external support programme and evidencing its impact is separately commissioning an independent, external evaluation to run alongside delivery of support. The critical output from the independent evaluation is to build an evidence base to underpin the BCF external support programme and identify which aspects are working well and where improvement is needed so that the Department of Health and Social Care ('the Authority') can take appropriate action. At a high level, the main aims of the evaluation are to support the BCF team and partner organisations to: * Examine the effectiveness of the support programme's delivery (identifying which parts of the support programme work and which ones do not) to gain a better understanding of the impact it has * Find out and showEvaluate how the core support programme is working and wherever possible, to help the core provider to clearly demonstrate the impact of external support in terms of measurable (including quantitative where feasible) and more intangible, qualitative benefits. This could potentially include proxy measures to show quantitative benefits that may be linked to showing where value for money has been delivered. * Bring about continuous improvement in the design and delivery of a range of support offered to local systems (including interventions that have the potential to reduce health and care inequalities) * Understand how the Authority can inform potential policy developments linked to external support. * Support and enable collaboration between partners across health, social care and housing. * Capture and feedback evaluation findings at the end of every quarter and throughout the duration of the contract (with initial findings to be provided at the end of the first quarter of evaluation delivery). * Share good practice across systems. This could include adding rigour and an improved evidence base to outputs of the support programme that have been proven to work by the evaluation. Outputs may include case studies, toolkits, and how to guides. * Lead work with the Authority to identify robust data collection processes that the Authority will require the core provider(s) of support services to put in place to support and enable independent evaluation in an iterative way that helps to demonstrate the effectiveness and impact of support. Additional information: Indicative Timelines contract start November 2023 for a period of 2 years ## Key Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication source | Find A Tender Service | | Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/026709-2022 | | Notice type | Planning Notice | | Procurement type | Standard | | Procurement category | Services | | Procurement method | Not Specified | | Procurement method details | Not specified | | Tender suitability | Not specified | | Awardee scale | Not specified | | All stages | Planning | ## Dates | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication date | 23 Sep 2022 | | Submission deadline | Not specified | | Future notice date | 21 Sep 2022 | | Award date | Not specified | | Contract period | Not specified | | Recurrence | Not specified | ## Values | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender value | £360,000 | | Lots value | Not specified | | Awards value | Not specified | | Contracts value | Not specified | ## Status | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender status | Planned | | Lots status | Planned | | Awards status | Not specified | | Contracts status | Not specified | ## Buyer | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Main buyer | DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE | | Locality | LONDON | | Post town | South West London | | Postcode | SW1H 0EU | | Country | England | | ITL 1 | TLI London | | ITL 2 | TLI3 Inner London - West | | ITL 3 | TLI35 Westminster and City of London | | Local authority | Westminster | | Electoral ward | St James's | | Westminster constituency | Cities of London and Westminster | | Delivery location | Not specified | ## CPV Codes ### Divisions - 79 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security - 85 - Health and social work services ### Codes - 79419000 - Evaluation consultancy services - 85000000 - Health and social work services ## Release History - 23 Sep 2022 at 13:15 - Planning - Planning Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/026709-2022 ## Notice URLs - http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/content/transparencyoverview - https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome - https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-of-health-and-social-care ## Provenance This Markdown file is an alternate public rendering of the D3 Tenders contract record. 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