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Halton Borough Council

Halton Healthwatch and Advocacy Hub Service

HealthcareCPV 85000000
Value£1.5m
Awarded20 Jan 2023
Published23 Mar 2023
RegionLondon
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£1.5mtotal contract value
median £380k
this tender£0£16.5m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Health & Social Care band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 32,734 valued Health & Social Care tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Halton Borough Council is seeking to re-commission its Healthwatch and Advocacy Services.

It is the Commissioners' intention that Healthwatch and the various elements of Advocacy; Independent Mental Capacity Advocacy (IMCA), Independent Mental Health Advocacy (IMHA), Independent NHS Complaints Advocacy and Care Act Advocacy, is delivered within one contractual arrangement.

The successful bidder may directly deliver all aspects of the Specification(s) or enter into contractual relationships with other organisations to deliver the specification(s).

TUPE will apply to this contract.

To view the full specification documents and requirements and to express your interest in this opportunity and access the ITT documentation, please visit www.the-chest.org.uk and search Chest Project ID DN645206 Questions relating to this document must be submitted via the Chest messaging facility only and telephone calls will not be answered during the live process.

Closing date for questions: Friday 13th January 2023 at 3pm Closing date for submissions: Friday 20th January 2023 at 3pm

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

The successful bidder may directly deliver all

The successful bidder may directly deliver all aspects of the Specification(s) or enter into contractual relationships with other organisations to deliver the specification(s).

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The gates

What this notice demands of you

1 named, none in explicit obligation language. Each one is quoted from the notice.

TUPE transferContract conditions
TUPE will apply to this contract.

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OCID
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Stage
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Source
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Buyer ref
HALT001-DN645206-56879323
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