Published date: 1 July 2022

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


Closing: 28 June 2022, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Data services - 72300000

Location of contract

SW1H 0EU

Value of contract

£11,724

Procurement reference

CF-0938700D0O000000rwimUAA1

Published date

1 July 2022

Closing date

28 June 2022

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

1 July 2022

Contract end date

30 June 2023

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Single tender action (below threshold)

A direct contract with a single supplier, without competition.

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

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The market for adult social care provision is fragile given the severe financial impact of COVID-19 on local authorities and the care sector, which has reduced occupancy and increased costs. This situation is on top of many years of constrained local authority budgets and care provider cost increases, such as those due to the National Living Wage and broader inflation. The purchase of Valuing Care's data is critical to our ability to understand whether local authorities are paying sustainable fees.
The scale of these risks and the importance of mitigating them is reflected in their inclusion on the Departmental level risk register and that whilst significant risk remains to the market, this complicates the Department's ambitions for reform.
The Department is responsible for national stewardship of adult social care markets. In response to the risks identified above, DHSC has designed a significant programme to oversee care markets, mitigate the risks to the availability of affordable, high quality adult social care, and to ensure markets at the front line are able to meet the needs of the population for care and support over the short, medium and longer term.

A key part of market monitoring conducted by analysts at the department is a comparison of the fees that LAs pay with measures of the true cost to run a care home or domiciliary care business, appropriately adjusted for local circumstances.

Access to this data intelligence and analysis is essential to ensuring the Department gains and maintains an up-to-date, objective, comprehensive and accurate understanding of current state of, and trends in, the ASC market.

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Award information

Awarded date

29 June 2022

Contract start date

1 July 2022

Contract end date

30 June 2023

Total value of contract

£11,724

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

VALUING CARE FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT LTD

Address

Cairns House,
10 Station Road
Teddington TW11 9AA

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

Joyce Angoma

Address

The abovementioned address
London
SW1H 0EU
United Kingdom

Email

joyce.angoma@dhsc.gov.uk