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University of Central Lancashire

Provision of Simulated Patients

Business ServicesCPV 79000000 79600000
Value£300k
Awarded4 Jan 2022
Published7 Mar 2022
RegionNationwide
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£300ktotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£1.6m

This is a large award for Business Services — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 57,319 valued Business Services tenders in our corpus.

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Contract summary Industry Supply services of personnel including temporary staff - 79620000 Location of contract PR1 2HE Value of contract £300,000 Procurement reference tender_286020/998845 Published date 13 October 2021 Closing date 12 November 2021 Closing time 12pm Contract start date 3 March 2022 Contract end date 1 March 2024 Contract type Service contract Procedure type Restricted procedure (above threshold) What is a restricted procedure (above threshold)?

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No Description The School of Medicine University of Central Lancashire is seeking applications to tender from agencies able to provide simulated patients, actors or trained clinical role players (SPs) for School of Medicine courses.

Your tender should demonstrate how you will address the requirements and critical success factors outlined below.

Purpose This purpose of this specification is to set the requirements, management and partnership for a single preferred provider that will deliver the Simulated Patient provision across the School of Medicine's clinical courses: MBBS, MPAS, MPAP and other clinical courses UG and PG, as required by curriculum needs.

Please note the term 'Simulated Patient'(SP) is understood to refer to clinical role players or actors who work as simulated patients for teaching purposes and as standardised patients for assessment purposes.

Requirements The successful Bidder will be able to provide high quality simulated patients for roles in Clinical Skills teaching sessions, Communication Skills teaching sessions and for clinical assessments such as Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs) with supportive and responsive management and administrative processes.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

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Supply services of personnel including temporary staff

Supply services of personnel including temporary staff.

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The School of Medicine University of Central

The School of Medicine University of Central Lancashire is seeking applications to tender from agencies able to provide simulated patients, actors or trained clinical role players (SPs) for School of Medicine courses.

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Your tender should demonstrate how you

Your tender should demonstrate how you will address the requirements and critical success factors outlined below.

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This purpose of this specification is

This purpose of this specification is to set the requirements, management and partnership for a single preferred provider that will deliver the Simulated Patient provision across the School of Medicine's clinical courses: MBBS, MPAS, MPAP and other clinical courses UG and PG, as required by curriculum needs.

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Stage
contract · Contract
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Buyer ref
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