Contract award · 8 May 2025

State of Care ICS Survey

Care Quality Commission awarded “State of Care ICS Survey” to The Nuffield Trust for £65,675 on 8 May 2025.

Business servicesNorth East

Value £65,675

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Key facts

Buyer
Care Quality Commission · Body governed by public law
Value
£65,675
Procedure
Call-off from a framework agreement
Sector
Business services · Social research services (CPV 79315000)
Timeline
  1. Contract date8 May 2025
  2. Published12 May 2025Published 4 days after the contract date

Description

This is a Contract Award Notice The Care Quality Commission (CQC) requires research to deliver increased understanding of the challenges and opportunities facing ICSs to enable CQC to better use our independent voice to encourage improvement. In the context of considerable financial pressure and demand on services, we would like to understand how ICSs understand their ability to deliver improvements for people and communities and their perspectives on key barriers and enablers to progress. By publishing aggregated findings in our State of Care report (with associated commentary), we will seek to drive systemic impact and influence policy makers. This procurement was undertaken through the CQC Research and Evaluation Framework Lot 6 - Local health and social care systems, integration, and joined-up care, following the Further Competition process. The Contract is awarded for an initial period of 11 months with an option to extend for up to 12 months. Total Awarded Value is maximum of al…

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