Published date: 31 January 2017
Last edited date: 31 January 2017
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.
Contract summary
Industry
Market research services - 79310000
Survey analysis services - 79311300
Location of contract
SW1W 9SZ
Value of contract
£95,000
Procurement reference
tender_136599/564344
Published date
31 January 2017
Closing date
14 February 2017
Contract start date
22 February 2017
Contract end date
21 February 2018
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 Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent regulator for health and social care services in England. We monitor and inspect services to make sure they meet fundamental standards of quality and safety and we publish what we find including performance ratings to help people choose care.
Public engagement is central to CQC's purpose. It ensures we understand and focus on what matters to people, helps to build public trust and confidence in our work, empowers people to understand the quality of care they should expect and helps them to choose between services if they want to. It also enables CQC to meet its statutory requirements as set out in the HSCA 2008 (and amended in 2013).
This procurement is integral to the delivery of key priorities within the CQC Strategy 2016-2021, in terms of:
1. Building effective partnerships with voluntary and community sector partners to encourage improvement, innovation, sustainability in care (Priority 1)
2. Supporting development of information products and processes to deliver an intelligence-driven approach to regulation (Priority 2)
3. Providing a public assessment of our value for money and understanding of our impact (Priority 4).
The procurement of public research will also support the delivery of the following objectives in CQC's Engagement Business Plan:
• 2.2 Ensure the views of our key audiences are heard in the development of and consultation on a more responsive and targeted inspection approach in each sector to an identified quantity and quality, ensuring a coordinated approach to the strategy beyond 2016 - 2017
• E.4 Gather and publish data, insight and case studies which demonstrate our impact and support improvements in quality in each of the sectors we regulate.
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