Published date: 19 November 2018

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 7 December 2018

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research and development services and related consultancy services - 73000000

  • Market research services - 79310000

Location of contract

London

Value of contract

£45,000 to £49,999

Procurement reference

CQC PSO 183

Published date

19 November 2018

Closing date

7 December 2018

Contract start date

7 January 2019

Contract end date

1 May 2019

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (below threshold)

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

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

The Care Quality Commission ("CQC") is the independent regulator of health and adult social care in England. We make sure health and social care services provide people with safe, effective, compassionate, high-quality care and we encourage care services to improve.

CQC has been awarded nearly £500,000 from the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy's (BEIS) Regulators Pioneer Fund to improve our regulatory approach to the use of technological innovation in health and social care.

We propose to use up to £49,999 of this funding to procure an external supplier, who will deliver the initial phase of this project, known as the "research phase". The supplier would be asked to deliver this work in a maximum of four months, from early January to early May 2019. The successful bidder is likely to be a supplier with specialist knowledge and expertise in innovation, preferably in the context of the health and social care sectors.

This work is essential to support CQC's strategic priority to "encourage improvement, innovation, and sustainability". It will enable us to develop our regulatory approach to technological innovation in health and social care.
By commissioning this work, we will be able to deliver our business plan commitments to "develop our approach to regulating new and emerging technologies, including digital and online services", and to "continue to develop CQC's approach to encouraging innovation".

More information

Links

Additional text

The full specification of 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 project name and select 'Register Interest'.

To be considered as a Bidder you must complete and submit a Bid by the deadline of 17:00pm on 07 December 2018.

Please allow sufficient time to make your return as late returns will not be permitted by the syste

About the buyer

Contact name

vicky waddle

Address

Citygate
Newcastle Upon Tyne
ne1 4pa
England

Email

vicky.waddle@cqc.org.uk