Published date: 16 March 2017

Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.


Closing: 15 September 2016

Contract summary

Industry

  • Health and social work services - 85000000

  • Health services - 85100000

Location of contract

London

Value of contract

£720,000

Procurement reference

TOWER001-DN175867-07468307

Published date

16 March 2017

Closing date

15 September 2016

Contract start date

1 April 2017

Contract end date

31 March 2021

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure

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

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

The Health and Social Care Act 2012 requires each local authority to have in place a
local Healthwatch organisation. This organisation has the following statutory duties:

1. Promoting and supporting the involvement of local people in the commissioning, the provision and scrutiny of local care services.
2. Enabling local people to monitor the standard of provision of local care services and whether and how local care services could and ought to be improved.
3. Obtaining the views of local people regarding their needs for, and experiences of, local care services and importantly to make these views known.
4. Making reports and recommendations about how local care services could or ought to be improved. These should be directed to commissioners and providers of care services, and people responsible for managing or scrutinising local care services and shared with Healthwatch England.
5. Providing information about local health and social care services to the public.
6. Formulating views on the standard of provision and whether and how the local care services could and ought to be improved; and sharing these views with Healthwatch England.
7. Making recommendations to Healthwatch England to advise the Care Quality Commission to conduct special reviews or investigations (or, where the circumstances justify doing so, making such recommendations direct to the CQC); and to make recommendations to Healthwatch England to publish reports about particular issues.
8. Providing Healthwatch England with the intelligence and insight

More information

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Award information

Awarded date

5 January 2017

Contract start date

1 April 2017

Contract end date

31 March 2021

Total value of contract

£718,864

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Healthwatch Tower Hamlets

Address

Room 12, Block 1 (Trust Offices), Mile End Hospital, Bancroft Road,, London, E1 4DG

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

Yes

Supplier is VCSE?

Yes

About the buyer

Contact name

Procurement

Address

Mulberry Place
London
E14 2BG
England

Telephone

+44 2073644099

Email

procurement@towerhamlets.gov.uk

Website

http://www.towerhamlets.gov.uk