Experts by Experience Services
This is a large award for Health & Social Care — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 32,734 valued Health & Social Care tenders in our corpus.
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.
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.
Experts by Experience are people who have personal experience of the services we regulate, either directly or as family carers.
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.
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.
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: -People from seldom-heard communities. -People with protected characteristics. -People made vulnerable by their circumstances.
The lotting structure of the contract will be determined as a result of the pre-market supplier engagement.
It 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.
Updated 07.02.2025 Date correction in the original notice Section name: Contract summary Place of Date corrected: Closing date Instead of Date: 14 January 2025 Read Date: 14 February 2025 Section name: More information Section name: Attachments Reason for correction/update: original notice has been updated with the following attachments: -Preliminary Market Engagement Presentation Slides -Market Engagement Clarification Log containing questions and answers gathered from supplier events -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.
Please 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.
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The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is
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
It ensures health and social care services provide people with safe, effective, compassionate, high-quality care and we encourage care services to improve.
We are starting to gather information
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.
Experts by Experience are people who have
Experts by Experience are people who have personal experience of the services we regulate, either directly or as family carers.
The contract will recruit manage and train
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.
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