Published date: 30 December 2017
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Contract summary
Industry
Research services - 73110000
Social research services - 79315000
Other community, social and personal services - 98000000
Location of contract
London
Value of contract
£15,000 to £25,000
Procurement reference
CQC PSO 152
Published date
30 December 2017
Closing date
16 January 2018
Contract start date
2 February 2018
Contract end date
30 March 2018
Contract type
Service contract
Procedure type
Competitive quotation (below threshold)
The buyer selects a group of potential suppliers to invite to tender.
This procedure can be used for procurements below the relevant contract value threshold.
Contract is suitable for SMEs?
Yes
Contract is suitable for VCSEs?
Yes
Description
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.
More information
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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.
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