Published date: 15 September 2021

Last edited date: 15 September 2021

This notice was replaced on 1 December 2021

This notice does not contain the most up-to-date information about this procurement. The most recent notice is:

Awarded contract (published 1 December 2021)

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Contract summary

Industry

  • Health and social work services - 85000000

Location of contract

North West

Value of contract

£1,620,000

Procurement reference

JR/PH/LCC/21/1209

Published date

15 September 2021

Closing date

15 October 2021

Closing time

10am

Contract start date

1 April 2022

Contract end date

1 April 2025

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

Healthwatch was created by the Health and Social Care Act 2012 as the independent consumer champion for health and social care. Healthwatch operates at national level through Healthwatch England and at a local level through local Healthwatch. Local Healthwatch operates in each upper tier local authority area. Local Healthwatch Service will help to ensure that the views and feedback from local people are an integral part of local commissioning across health and social care. To ensure that Lancashire County Council (the Authority) fulfils its statutory responsibility in relation to the creation of Healthwatch Lancashire ('the Service'), the Provider, in delivering the Service will: Promote and support the involvement of local people in the commissioning, provision and scrutiny of local care services. Enable local people to monitor the standard of local care services and whether / how they could / ought to be improved. This includes the right to carry out 'Enter and View' visits on premises where publically funded care services are provided as part of its role in gathering evidence. Obtain the views of people about their need for and their experiences of local care services and making these views known to persons responsible for commissioning, providing, managing or scrutinising local care services. Make reports and recommendations about how local care services could or ought to be improved. Provide advice and information about access to local care services so choices can be made about local care services.

More information

Links

Additional text

The tender can be found on the Authority's Oracle Sourcing Portal under the RFQ number 15304635. Amended versions of the tender are denoted at the end of the RFQ number by a comma followed by an amendment number. Search results will display any and all amended versions of the tender. The latest version is determined as being the RFQ number with the highest amendment number. You may only make a submission against the latest amendment. Where you have made a submission against a tender that is subsequently amended you will be required to resubmit prior to the submission deadline.

About the buyer

Contact name

Jackie Riley

Address

Fishergate
Preston
PR18XJ
England

Telephone

01772 531282

Email

jackie.riley@lancashire.gov.uk