Published date: 28 February 2019

Closed future opportunity - This means that a potential contract has passed its approach to market date. A buyer can choose to consider any supplier interest or convert this notice into an opportunity ready for live procurement.


Approach to market date: 23 May 2019

Contract summary

Industry

  • Accounting, auditing and fiscal services - 79200000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£0 to £1,200,000

Procurement reference

CQC PSO 177

Published date

28 February 2019

Approach to market date

23 May 2019

Contract start date

1 January 2020

Contract end date

31 December 2023

Procedure type

Open procedure (above threshold)

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

This procedure can be used for procurements above the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

As of 6th April 2015, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has had a statutory duty to operate a market oversight scheme to assess the financial sustainability of the most difficult to replace providers of Adult Social Care (ASC). The purpose of the scheme is to protect people using care services and their families and carers from the anxiety and distress that may be caused by the failure of a major care provider and to minimise any disruption to their care. We do this by monitoring the performance and finances of the most significant social care providers in England and will give Local Authorities an early warning where we think one of these is at risk of failure and the delivery of services is going to be affected.

The Scheme will identify where failure is likely, allowing the right people (providers, shareholders, lenders and other stakeholders) to take the right action to potentially avoid failure and to support Local Authorities to plan in case failure does happen.

The purpose of the future procurement is to establish a framework of 6 contractors who may be requested to provide external expertise, when required, for the following types of service:

1. Independent Business Reviews;
2. Consultancy service to supplement the skills of the Market Oversight Team;
3. Potential secondments into the CQC Market Oversight Team; and
4. Training relating to Continuing Professional Development (CPD).

Any future procurement exercise will be undertaken using the CQC Provider Portal eTendering Service. To access any future documents and take part you will first need to register on the portal using the following link and then click on "REGISTER HERE".

https://cqc-commercial.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.html?_ncp=1542797532554.945-1

This notice does not constitute a commitment by CQC to undertake a procurement exercise and may not reflect any information which may ultimately be presented in any potential future tendering exercise.

More information

Spend profile

This table displays the spend profile of the notice
Financial year Budget
2019/2020 £150,000
2021/2020 £300,000
2021/2022 £300,000
2022/2023 £300,000
2023/2024 £150,000

Additional text

Any future procurement exercise will be undertaken using the CQC Provider Portal eTendering Service. To access any future documents and take part you will first need to register on the portal and then click on "REGISTER HERE".

About the buyer

Address

151 Buckingham Palace Road
London
SW1W 9SZ
England

Email

commercialcontracts@cqc.org.uk