Published date: 30 August 2022

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


Closing: 26 July 2022, 5pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research services - 73110000

  • Research consultancy services - 73210000

  • Provision of services to the community - 75200000

    • Economic research services - 79311400

    • Social research services - 79315000

    • Health and social work services - 85000000

    • Health services - 85100000

    • Community action programme - 85322000

    • Community health services - 85323000

    • Other community, social and personal services - 98000000

Location of contract

B4 7WB

Value of contract

£0

Procurement reference

IT-100-3720-QU801 - AWARD

Published date

30 August 2022

Closing date

26 July 2022

Closing time

5pm

Contract start date

17 August 2022

Contract end date

16 October 2022

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

Covid-19 has played a significant part in the Public Health Division's work for more than two years. It changed the ways we have worked before and created various opportunities. Public Health Division initially continued with business-as-usual (BAU) work and members of staff rotated in the Covid cell where local guidance, based on National's, would be generated. Shortly after, BAU took a back seat and the division broke out into various cells to address Covid - (1) Health Protection , (2) Wellbeing, (3) Communications and Engagement, (4) Data and Governance and (5) Procurement. Individuals from across the council were redeployed to support Public Health Covid Response.

However, due to the need for BAU work to continue, the model was slightly modified and additional capacity was recruited. The Test and Trace team was created which consisted of 5 sub-teams; (1) Business Strategy, (2) Communications and Engagement, (3) Data and Governance, (4) Health Protection Response, (5) Contact Tracing. BAU members of staff went back to their substantive posts and those who wanted to stay applied into secondment opportunities. The rota system using BAU resources, initially introduced at the beginning of the pandemic, continued to support the Health Protection Response Team as and when Covid peaks stretched the team's capacity. There has been great staff turnover and additional posts created in response to the fluid environment that the pandemic brought about.

The Council will provide appropriate and proportionate expert public health advice, support and signpost to appropriate information. The Council will work with the provider to enable the contract delivery as much as possible. Example of support are as below. This list is not exhaustive:
- Guidance throughout to ensure the report maps the service specification
- Support with identifying participants
The project should include synthesized data collected from the below sample to cover aspects of Covid-19 Response and its evaluation as set out in Service Specifications e.g.

o What worked well and did not work well during Covid-19
o What could have been tried or done differently
o Elements of pre-pandemic ways and methods of working that the Division may benefit from reverting to
o Elements of pandemic ways of working that the Division may benefit from taking forward
o Reflections and improvements on Communications, Collaboration and Partnership-working during the pandemic
o Skills and Knowledge learnt and developed during Response to Covid-19 and key training needed for officers to prepare for future pandemic / emergency situations.
o Learnings and Evaluation surrounding

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Award information

Awarded date

12 August 2022

Contract start date

17 August 2022

Contract end date

16 October 2022

Total value of contract

£19,800

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Research Works Limited

Address

Regency House, The Quadrant, 219a Hatfield Road, Regency House Quadrant Business Centre 219a Hatfield Road , St Albans, Great Britain, AL1 4TB

Reference

None

About the buyer

Contact name

Manjit Samrai

Address

10 Woodcock Street
Birmingham
West Midlands
B4 7WB
United Kingdom

Telephone

0121 303 0349

Email

manjit.samrai@birmingham.gov.uk