Published date: 10 July 2023

Last edited date: 14 July 2023

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.


Closing: 9 August 2023, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Market and economic research; polling and statistics - 79300000

  • Market research services - 79310000

  • Survey services - 79311000

    • Social research services - 79315000

    • Public-opinion polling services - 79320000

    • Statistical services - 79330000

    • Advertising and marketing services - 79340000

Location of contract

England

Value of contract

£52,333.33 to £156,999.99

Procurement reference

CF-1665400D0O000000rwimUAA

Published date

10 July 2023

Closing date

9 August 2023

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

1 September 2023

Contract end date

31 August 2026

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (below threshold)

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

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

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent regulatory of health and adult social care in England. CQC is responsible for monitoring and inspecting these services to ensure they are providing care that is safe, effective, caring and responsive to people's needs and well-led listening to acting on people's experiences of care is vital to CQC's work, as it helps us to decide when, where and what to inspect, supports better registration, inspection, judgements and ratings, and result in better information for the public. Since 2012 CQC has established a number of partnerships with national voluntary organisations, known as 'Tell us Partnerships' in order to increase our access to people's experiences of care via organisations that are already working with and hearing from people on an ongoing basis.

Further information can be found at: https://www.cqc.org.uk/get-involved/share-your-experience/tell-us-about-your-care-partnerships

The contract will commence from 1st September 2023 for initial 12 months with 2 x 12 months optional extensions.

Due to the likely specialist nature of the requirements, CQC considers that this specific expertise is not widely available through current government procurement channels or frameworks, the procurement will follow the Open procedure (below threshold).

The Authority wish to utilise the entire budget across as many suitable suppliers as possible prioritising the three core areas identified in the ITT. The Authority will award contracts to the highest scoring providers up to the maximum total budget value of £62,800.00 Inc VAT per annum. Once this budget cap is met no further contracts will be awarded.

The full specification of requirements is set out in the 'Invitation to Tender' pack available at CQC's e-sourcing portal Atamis:

To express interest and participate in the tender, please register and apply via Atamis e-sourcing portal:
https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome

All questions or clarifications in relation to this procurement must be submitted via Atamis
sourcing portal and will not be accepted by any other means.

Should Tenderers have any queries, or are having problems using the portal, they should contact the Helpdesk at:
Phone: 0800 9956035
E-mail: support-health@atamis.co.uk


Updated 14.07.2023 - Text to be corrected in the original notice not corrected in last edited date: 13 July 2023.
Section: Contract summary
Place of text to be corrected: Contract end date
Instead of: 31 August 2024
Read: 31 August 2026

More information

Previous notice about this procurement

Tell us About Your Care Partnerships

  • Opportunity
  • Published 10 July 2023, last edited 13 July 2023

Additional text

To express interest and participate in the tender, please register and apply via Atamis e-sourcing portal https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome.

Should Tenderers have any queries, or having problems using the portal, they should contact Helpdesk at:

Phone: 0800 9956035

E-mail: support-health@atamis.co.uk

About the buyer

Contact name

Commercial and Contracts Team

Address

Citgate, Gallowgate
Newcastle Upon Tyne
NE1 4PA
England

Email

commercialcontracts@cqc.org.uk