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Birmingham City Council

P0566 - Delivery of Healthwatch Birmingham Services - AWARD

HealthcareCPV 85000000 85300000 85320000
Value£2.0m
Awarded18 Feb 2019
Published7 Aug 2019
RegionWest Midlands
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£2.0mtotal 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

The Council wishes to establish a Contract for the Delivery of Healthwatch Birmingham Service.

The Health and Social Care Act 2012 amended the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 (the Act) to create a new consumer champion for health and social care services in the form of Healthwatch.

The Healthwatch Birmingham service will play a vital role in improving health and social care services in Birmingham, as well as working with the local health and social care system to develop the areas identified as part of the recent Care Quality Commission review.

There is a clear opportunity to develop the voice of the citizen locally ensuring that services are robust, provided at the right time, in the way that meets the needs of citizens.

The focus will be supporting citizens to remain in their own homes and communities developing the support networks to enhance their lives.

Supporting the area of improvement to enable public engagement in shaping the future of the health and social care system in a systematic and joined up approach.

Note that he Council is Procuring a contract for these services for itself only.

Healthwatch Birmingham will: • Be an effective, powerful and independent local voice for the people of Birmingham; • Promote better outcomes for both adults and children in health; • Promote better outcomes for both adults and children in social care; • Be representative of the diverse communities within Birmingham; and • Demonstrate it has the appropriate level of skills competencies required to deliver its functions to the highest possible level.

The Contract will last for 3 years with the provision to extend for up to an additional 2 years subject to requirements and satisfactory performance.

Registration and use of in-tend is free.

All correspondence for this procurement process must be via the in-tend correspondence function.

If you are unable to register with in-tend please either email us at cps@birmingham.gov.uk or call 0121 464 8000.

If you are interested in tendering please click on the following link to access the Council's tender Portal:-. https://in-tendhost.co.uk/birminghamcc/ and submit your details to register as a bidder.

We will send you a log on and password so you can download the tender documentation.

Your completed tender documentation should be returned by noon on 18th February 2019 via the 'in-tend' system https://in-tendhost.co.uk/birminghamcc

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

The focus will be supporting citizens

The focus will be supporting citizens to remain in their own homes and communities developing the support networks to enhance their lives.

02

• Demonstrate it has the appropriate level

• Demonstrate it has the appropriate level of skills competencies required to deliver its functions to the highest possible level.

03

All correspondence for this procurement process must

All correspondence for this procurement process must be via the in-tend correspondence function.

04

Your completed tender documentation should be returned

Your completed tender documentation should be returned by noon on 18th February 2019 via the 'in-tend' system https://in-tendhost.co.uk/birminghamcc.

Sentences from the notice that state an obligation, surfaced automatically and shown in the order they appear. Not an exhaustive list — always confirm against the tender documents.

The gates

What this notice demands of you

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

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The Healthwatch Birmingham service will play a vital role in improving health and social care services in Birmingham, as well as working with the local health and social care system to develop the areas identified as part of the recent Care Quality Commission review.

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