Published date: 27 May 2022
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Contract summary
Industry
Health and social work services - 85000000
Location of contract
England
Value of contract
£427,000
Procurement reference
LUTON001-DN602404-51927798
Published date
27 May 2022
Closing date
15 April 2022
Closing time
5pm
Contract start date
6 May 2022
Contract end date
6 December 2023
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?
No
Description
.1 Luton Borough Council is looking to engage qualified organisations to submit a quotation for the Provision of Services : Healthwatch Luton' 1.2 This procurement is subject to PCR15 , Public Contract Regulation 2015, Light Touch Regime rules, and as such the Council is following a below FTS threshold Request For Quotation (with Evaluation) bidding process i.e. an advert is published on the Council's e Commerce Platform as arranged by Proactis , Pro Contract ' Due North ' and also on Contract Finder. Any suppliers wishing to bid for this work within a 30 day return period, need to register for free via the Proactis Due North website to receive the tender documents. Please note the return date can only be extended by the Council with good reason to do so, those suppliers not seeing advert until late, should bid on the understanding that they will have less time to prepare. 1.3 The aim of Local Healthwatch is to give citizens and communities a stronger voice to influence and challenge how health and social care services are provided within their locality.
Local Healthwatch are funded by and accountable to local authorities. Their statutory functions are:
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 within an overall framework that recognises financial constraints. 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 advice and information about access to local care services so choices can be made about local care services
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 it needs to enable it to perform effectively.
More information
Previous notice about this procurement
Local HealthWatch Service - HealthWatch Luton
- Opportunity
- Published 14 March 2022, last edited 21 March 2022
Award information
Awarded date
26 May 2022
Contract start date
17 September 2022
Contract end date
31 March 2024
Total value of contract
£1,000
This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.
HealthwatchLuton
Address
LU3 3QB
Reference
None
Supplier is SME?
Yes
Supplier is VCSE?
No
About the buyer
Contact name
Chris Newman
Address
Town Hall
George Street
Luton
LU1 2BQ
United Kingdom
Telephone
+44 1582547058
Christopher.newman@luton.gov.uk
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