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It ensures health and social care services provide people with safe, effective, compassionate, high-quality care and we encourage care services to improve.\r\n\r\nWe are starting to gather information to help shape the procurement of a contract to deliver our Experts by Experience programme for delivery from April 2026 onwards.\r\n\r\nExperts by Experience are people who have personal experience of the services we regulate, either directly or as family carers.\r\n\r\nThe contract will recruit manage and train a pool of Experts by Experience and provide the necessary support to enable these Experts by Experience to work with CQC on its ongoing programme of assessments of health and care services. Experts by Experience also support other CQC activity such as the codesign of guidance and policy development.\r\n\r\nDuring inspections, Experts by Experience speak with people using services and their family or organisations that support them. Their findings are used to support CQC inspectors' judgements on services and may be included in CQC inspection reports.\r\n\r\nThe contract will also build, manage and maintain a Public Engagement Network of community groups on CQCs behalf, providing CQC with intelligence and insight from:\r\n\r\n-People from seldom-heard communities.\r\n-People with protected characteristics.\r\n-People made vulnerable by their circumstances.\r\n\r\nThe lotting structure of the contract will be determined as a result of the pre-market supplier engagement.\r\n\r\nIt is envisaged the contract will run from April 2026 to March 2029 and will have an approximate value of £10m Exc. VAT over the full contract term.\r\n\r\nUpdated 07.02.2025\r\nDate correction in the original notice\r\nSection name: Contract summary\r\nPlace of Date corrected: Closing date\r\nInstead of Date: 14 January 2025 \r\nRead Date: 14 February 2025 \r\nSection name: More information\r\nSection name: Attachments\r\nReason for correction/update: original notice has been updated with the following attachments:\r\n-Preliminary Market Engagement Presentation Slides\r\n-Market Engagement Clarification Log containing questions and answers gathered from supplier events\r\n-Experts by Experience feedback form https://customervoice.microsoft.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=uMpdpWbO6kWrP2W8Kwe10zsThXEIlPtOgJRcUKZU0LZUOVVGMzhKNjRONjQyTTJJRkRNUTdBS0dSNy4u To ensure your feedback is considered please complete and submit this form by 4 PM on Friday, 14 February 2025.\r\nPlease note: The Experts by Experience feedback form is not an invitation to tender or a request for formal expressions of interest. This request for information is issued solely for preliminary market research to help shape any potential procurement process.\r\n\r\nAdditional information: \r\nThis early engagement notice is to signal an intention to commence pre-market supplier engagement.\r\n\r\nA Prior Information Notice (Notice reference: 2024/S 000-041528) on Find a Tender service can be found here: https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/041528-2024\r\n\r\nCQC invites suggestions and feedback on the design of the Experts by Experience contract ref: CQC EPS 102\r\n\r\nCQC intends to hold virtual pre-market supplier engagement events in January 2025 with industry experts and suppliers interested in potentially bidding for the resulting contract on the following dates:\r\n\r\n-Thursday 16 January 2025, 13:30-15:00 (UK local time)\r\n-Wednesday 22 January 2025, 13:30-15:00 (UK local time)\r\n-Friday 24 January 2025, 13:30-15:00 (UK local time)\r\n\r\nIf you would like to be involved, please express your interest in one of the above supplier engagement events by emailing commercialcontracts@cqc.org.uk with the subject line 'CQC EPS 102 Supplier Engagement' no later than 4pm (UK local time) on Tuesday 14 January 2025 and further details will be provided to you.\r\n\r\nYour email must clearly state:\r\n\r\n-Your Organisation Name\r\n\r\n-Full Name, Job Title and Email contact details for the individual(s) who will be participating in supplier engagement (maximum of two per organisation)\r\n\r\n-Your organisation website link\r\n\r\nThe content of the pre-market supplier engagement events will not change, please limit your registration to one session only.\r\n\r\nPlease note this is not a call to competition and does not constitute the commencement of the procurement process.\r\n\r\nPlease note that CQC will use an e-Sourcing portal hosted by Atamis for this competition: https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome and we would encourage all interested suppliers to complete their Atamis registration in advance of the procurement being launched in Feb 2025.\r\n\r\nShould you have any queries regarding how to register your Organisation on Atamis e-Sourcing portal, please contact Atamis helpdesk at:\r\nPhone: 0800 9956035\r\nE-mail: support-health@atamis.co.uk\r\nHelpdesk Operational Hours 08:00-18:00 Monday - Friday (Excluding Public Holiday)\r\n\r\nPlease monitor Find A Tender Service and Contracts Finder for the publication of the contract notice.\r\n\r\nThis notice does not constitute a commitment by CQC to undertake a procurement exercise and may not reflect any information which may ultimately be presented in any potential future tendering exercise", "status": "planning", "classification": { "scheme": "CPV", "id": "85000000", "description": "Health and social work services" }, "items": [ { "id": "1", "deliveryAddresses": [ { "region": "England", "countryName": "United Kingdom" } ] } ], "value": { "amount": 10000000, "currency": "GBP" }, "suitability": { "sme": true, "vcse": true }, "mainProcurementCategory": "services" }, "parties": [ { "id": "GB-CFS-238199", "name": "Care Quality Commission", "identifier": { "legalName": "Care Quality Commission" }, "address": { "streetAddress": "Citygate, Gallowgate", "locality": "Newcastle upon Tyne", "postalCode": "NE1 4PA", "countryName": "England" }, "contactPoint": { "name": "Commercial and Contracts Team", "email": "commercialcontracts@cqc.org.uk" }, "roles": [ "buyer" ] } ], "buyer": { "id": "GB-CFS-238199", "name": "Care Quality Commission" } } ] }