UK Public Sector Contracts & Tenders

This is a UK1 Pipeline notice. Workforce solutions services to supply workforce resource including temporary staff. Planned Sourcing route: Call-off from a framework agreement.

This is a UK1 Pipeline Notice. Contact Centre Software requirement for CQCs Omni channel solution. Planned Sourcing route: Call-off from a framework agreement

This is a UK1 Pipeline notice. Provision of a survey coordination and data management service, including the development and analysis of data from multiple national surveys. Planning sourcing route: Crown Commercial Service (CCS) Research and Insights Dynamic Marketplace DPS (RM6126) following a further competition process.

This is a UK1 Pipeline notice. Framework of Approved Contractors to provide a range of NHS survey-related services. Planned sourcing route: PA23 Open or Competitive Flexible Procedure - to be determined.

Supply of Microsoft Enterprise Agreement and Related Services. Planned sourcing route: Call-off from a framework agreement

Hosting of CQC Website and Provider Portal. Planned sourcing route: Call-off from a framework agreement

Supply of IT Peripherals and Assistive Technology (AT). Planned sourcing route: Call-off from a framework agreement

Provision of Operation Centre and Digital Workplace Managed Services. Planned Sourcing route: Call-off from a framework agreement

Provision of travel management services to provide online booking tool and offline support for booking rail, hotel and air travel. Planned sourcing route: Call-off from a framework agreement

Provision of management services to book external conference and venues. Planned sourcing route: Call-off from a framework agreement

Managed services to support critical business applications and core platforms. Planned sourcing route: Call-off from a framework agreement

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent health and social care regulator in England that monitors, inspects and regulates health and social care services to ensure they meet fundamental standards of quality and safety. It ensures health and social care services provide people with safe, effective, compassionate, high-quality care and we encourage care services to improve.<br/><br/>We 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.<br/><br/>Experts by Experience are people who have personal experience of the services we regulate, either directly or as family carers.<br/><br/>The 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. <br/><br/>During 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. <br/><br/>The contract will also build, manage and maintain a Public Engagement Network of community groups on CQCs behalf, providing CQC with intelligence and insight from: <br/><br/>-People from seldom-heard communities. <br/>-People with protected characteristics. <br/>-People made vulnerable by their circumstances. <br/><br/>The lotting structure of the contract will be determined as a result of the pre-market supplier engagement.<br/><br/>Further information is included in the Additional Information section VI.3.

Care Quality Commission (CQC) would like to commission a new research project to explore effective methods for assessing how systems of health and care (Integrated Care Systems (ICS), as well as Local Authorities (LA)) are involving the people who live in their local area to understand their needs for and experience of care in a way that leads to improved outcomes. More information about working with us on research can be found on our website: https://www.cqc.org.uk/about-us/transparency/external-reports-research/working-with-us-on-research Early Market Engagement Event: We will be running a virtual market engagement session for potential suppliers with interest in this project on the following date: Friday 29th September, 15.00-16.00 Link URL: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/7add172e-20e6-4e7c-8e2b-123308c7e978@a55dcab8-ce66-45ea-ab3f-65bc2b07b5d3 Potential suppliers wishing to attend please register using the MS Teams link above and provide the required details by 21st September 2023. Please note this is not a call to competition and does not constitute the commencement of the procurement process. Reference: CQC EP&S 046 Updated 08/09/2023 - This notice replaces previous published early engagement notice text published date 07 September 2023. Text to be corrected in the original notice where incorrect data field responses were displayed: Section name: Description Place of Text to be corrected: Description Instead of: The research project is part of CQC's research programme. More information about the programme can be found on our website: Working with us on research - Care Quality Commission (cqc.org.uk) We will be running a virtual market engagement session for potential suppliers with interest in this project on the following date: · Friday 29th September, 15.00-16.00 Team Link to Follow Read: More information about working with us on research can be found ... Section name: Contract summary Place of Text to be corrected: Location of contract Instead of: NE1 4PA Read: England Section name: About the buyer Place of Text to be corrected: Contact name Instead of: Commercial Contracts Read: Commercial and Contracts Team Section name: About the buyer Place of Text to be corrected: Address Instead of: CITYGATE, GALLOWGATE NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE NE1 4PA GB Read: Citygate, Gallowgate Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 4PA England

Care Quality Commission (CQC) is intending to set up a new Research and Evaluation Procurement Framework. The framework will be used to procure health and social care research on topics relating to safety, improving quality, regulation, inequalities in care, local health and care systems, integration, involving people in care, and understanding their experience of care. More information about working with us on research can be found on our website: https://www.cqc.org.uk/about-us/transparency/external-reports-research/working-with-us-on-research Early Market Engagement Event: We will be running a virtual market engagement session for potential suppliers with interest in this project on the following dates: Session one: 20th September 2023, 13.00-14.15 Link URL: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/51b2967a-9a20-4954-8ada-842b24c7e34d@a55dcab8-ce66-45ea-ab3f-65bc2b07b5d3 Session two: 22nd September 2023, 14.00-15.15 Link URL: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/de989aa3-cf99-4f4e-9efc-92147593d70b@a55dcab8-ce66-45ea-ab3f-65bc2b07b5d3 Potential suppliers wishing to attend please register using the MS Teams links above and provide the required details by 19th September 2023. As the content of these sessions will not change, potential suppliers wishing to attend should limit their registration to one session only. Please note this is not a call to competition and does not constitute the commencement of the procurement process. Reference: CQC EP&S 052 Updated 08/09/2023 - This notice replaces previous published early engagement notice text published date 07 September 2023. Text to be corrected in the original notice where incorrect data field responses were displayed: Section name: Description Place of Text to be corrected: Description Instead of: CQC would like to commission a new bespoke multi-lot framework for Research and Development purposes ... Read: CQC are intending to set up a new Research and Evaluation Procurement Framework ... Section name: Contract summary Place of Text to be corrected: Location of contract Instead of: NW1 4PA Read: England Section name: About the buyer Place of Text to be corrected: Contact name Instead of: Commercial Contracts Read: Commercial and Contracts Team Section name: About the buyer Place of Text to be corrected: Address Instead of: CITYGATE, GALLOWGATE NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE NW1 4PA GB Read: Citygate, Gallowgate Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 4PA England

CQC would like to commission a new bespoke multi-lot framework for Research and Development purposes. <br/><br/>The research project is part of CQC’s research programme. More information about the programme can be found on our website: Working with us on research - Care Quality Commission (cqc.org.uk)<br/><br/>We will be running a virtual market engagement session for potential suppliers with interest in this project on the following dates:<br/><br/>· Wednesday 20th September, 13.00-14.15pm <br/>· Friday 22nd September, 14.00-15.15pm <br/><br/>Microsoft Teams invite to follow

CQC would like to commission a new research project to explore effective methods for assessing how systems of health and care (Integrated Care Systems (ICS), as well as Local Authorities (LA)) are involving the people who live in their local area to understand their needs for and experience of care in a way that leads to improved outcomes.<br/><br/> <br/><br/>The research project is part of CQC’s research programme. More information about the programme can be found on our website: Working with us on research - Care Quality Commission (cqc.org.uk)<br/><br/> <br/><br/>We will be running a virtual market engagement session for potential suppliers with interest in this project on the following date:<br/><br/>· Friday 29th September, 15.00-16.00<br/><br/>Team Link to Follow

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CQC RCCO 094 - Request for information for a Recognition Platform for Employee Benefits. CQC's workforce is made up of around 3,200 colleagues, the majority (over 90%) of whom are geographically dispersed homeworkers. We aim to enable our people to be the best they can be. We know that receiving recognition for the things we do well makes a difference to how valued we feel and to our sense of wellbeing and belonging. At CQC we want to nurture a culture of recognition that engages and motivates us all and inspires us to excellence. We promote and recognise behaviours that align with our Values and Success Profile themes. We would like to enhance the way we recognize our people by providing a platform that enables peer-to-peer and social recognition, including the ability to provide monetary reward on certain occasions. To express interest and participate in the request for information, please register and apply via Atamis e-sourcing portal: https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome Where all relevant documents can be found. All questions or clarifications in relation to this request for information must be submitted via Atamis sourcing portal and will not be accepted by any other means. Should you have any queries, or are having problems using the portal, you should contact the Helpdesk at: Phone: 0800 9956035 E-mail: support-health@atamis.co.uk

This is a Prior Information Notice (PIN) for information only and is being published on a strictly voluntary basis. This is not a call for competition. 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 start from May 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 as defined by the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Regulation 27). Subject to approvals, the Invitation To Tender (ITT) will be published on the CQC's eSourcing Portal: https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome There is no requirement to register at this stage. We intend to issue the opportunity late February 2023. Potential suppliers will not be prejudiced by any response to this Notice and a response is not expected. The purpose of this Notice is to alert potential suppliers of a possible opportunity that may be of interest and to inform the market of the upcoming opportunity and enable work planning. CQC reserves the right to discontinue the process at any time and this Notice does not constitute a commitment by CQC to undertake any procurement process in relation to the requirements. The CPV codes used in this Notice and the full range of services covered may change prior to commencement of the proposed procurement procedure.

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.