Care Quality Commission: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

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Official UK PPONPBJZ-7139-JTHNWebsitecqc.org.uk ↗

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Tenders you can still bid for.

Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.

Notices, last 12 months31+244% vs prior 12 months (9)
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Notices published in the last 12 months.

Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.

Typical bids per lot420% single-bid · 5 bid reports
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How many companies usually bid when this buyer runs a tender.

Middle value of the bid counts on its award notices, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.

Based on 5 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

Top-3 supplier share28%of 46 awarded procedures · 86 suppliers
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How much of this buyer’s work goes to its three most frequent suppliers.

Share of its awarded tenders that name at least one of the top three. Each tender is counted once.

46 awarded tenders, 86 different suppliers.

Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.

All awards we hold.

Contracts ending ≤18 months7none within 6 months
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.

Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.

A likely retender, not a certain one.

Published award value, 24m£13mnet · on 23 of 39 single-supplier awards · top 5 = 83%
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.

Sum of award values to single suppliers, VAT excluded, on notices from the last 24 months. Framework ceilings and repeated totals are left out.

Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.

What they buy
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What kind of work is bought here.

Notices by procurement category (CPV). A notice with several categories counts in each.

Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each

How they buy
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How work here is packaged.

Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.

Last 24 months · 40 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim

Commercial tool
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How work here is packaged.

Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.

  • Contract 85% (34 notices)
  • Dynamic purchasing system 13% (5 notices)
  • Framework 3% (1 notices)
Procedure route
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Which procedures buyers here use.

Notices by the procedure they declare: open, selective, limited or direct. Open and selective are competitions; limited and direct are not.

  • Direct award 35% (14 notices)
  • Selective 30% (12 notices)
  • Route not published 23% (9 notices)
  • Limited / restricted 8% (3 notices)
  • Open 5% (2 notices)
Typical bids per lot
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How many companies usually bid when this buyer runs a tender.

Middle value of the bid counts on its award notices, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.

Based on 5 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

4robust · n=520% of lots drew a single bid
Notice amendments
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How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.

Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.

Based on 40 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

014 of 40 notices amended
Award vs estimate
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Do this buyer’s awards land above or below its own estimates.

Each lot’s published estimate against its award, on this buyer’s competitions, like for like.

Based on 1 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months. Small sample.

A past pattern, not a price to bid.

Last 24 months.

0% at estimateindicative · n=1

Who wins here
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Which suppliers win the most here.

Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.

All published awards naming a supplier · ranked by distinct procedures, not pounds · panel and call-off entries inflate award records

SupplierProceduresShareLast 24mAward recordsLast activity
Oracle Corporation UK Limited613%174 Oct 2024
Picker Institute Europeframework/DPS on 248.7%0530 Jul 2024
Cambridge Sparkframework/DPS on 336.5%2315 Dec 2025
Diligent Boardbooks Limited24.3%227 Aug 2026
Blue Lozenge Limited24.3%2219 Jun 2026
Rock Kitchen Harris Ltd24.3%229 Feb 2026
THE COPYRIGHT LICENSING AGENCY LTD24.3%227 May 2026
BMG Research Limitedframework/DPS on 124.3%0230 Jul 2024

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 28% of 46 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 86 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards — not a statement of preference.

Published award value (24m)
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.

Sum of award values to single suppliers, VAT excluded, on notices from the last 24 months. Framework ceilings and repeated totals are left out.

Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.

£13mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 23 of 39 single-supplier awards; the five largest make 83%.
Typical single-supplier award (24m)
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What one of this buyer’s contracts is usually worth.

Middle value of the same awards as the total above.

Last 24 months.

£107k middle valuerobust · n=23Middle half £53k–£353k.
Largest published awards
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The biggest published awards.

Awards to a single supplier with a published value, largest first, so you can check the totals against the notice.

A repeated framework total can appear here. Open the notice to check.

SupplierAwardedTermPublished value
CQC Experts by Experience ServicesChoice Support ——£7,445,364 †
CQC Public Engagement NetworkNational Voices——£1,297,492 †
Oracle Support & MaintenanceOracle Corporation UK Limited——£689,269 †
Supply and Installation of Specialist Ergonomic Furniture / Equipment SolutionsBACK CARE SOLUTIONS4 Jun 20264 yrs£666,667
≈ £167k/yr
CQC Exhibition Stand Build, Storage and MaintenanceRocket Exhibitions and Events——£415,000 †

Contracts ending
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.

Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.

A likely retender, not a certain one.

Published end dates only · 30 of 74 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast

Recent procedures

Latest 50 of 64 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
Omni Channel Contact Centre SolutionSoftware package and information systemsPlanned20 Feb 2026£1,091,754
Conference and VenuesEvent servicesPlanned20 Feb 2026£2,500,000
Travel ServicesTravel management servicesPlanned20 Feb 2026£8,750,000
Managed IT ServicesIT services: consultingPlanned20 Feb 2026£17,007,635
IT Peripherals and Assistive TechnologyComputer equipment and suppliesPlanned20 Feb 2026£6,541,667
MNSI Website and Referral PortalAwarded / complete9 Feb 2026—
NGO Communication and Engagement SupportAwarded / complete9 Feb 2026—
NHS Patient Survey ProgrammeMarket research servicesPlanned6 Feb 2026£2,925,000
Development, Hosting and Support for the MNSI WebsiteAwarded / complete2 Feb 2026—
RM6102 DPS Call Off Contract for Level 5 Data Engineer ApprenticeshipDPSEducation and training servicesAwarded / complete15 Dec 2025—
Follow up work to Care Provider Alliance recommendationsAwarded / complete9 Oct 2025—
Governance ReviewAwarded / complete25 Sept 2025—
RM6102 DPS Call Off Contract for Coaching Professional Level 5 ApprenticeshipDPSEducation and training servicesAwarded / complete1 Sept 2025—
Diligent BoardsAwarded / complete1 Aug 2025—
Associate Project Manager Level 4 ApprenticeshipEducation and training servicesAwarded / complete3 Jul 2025—
CLA Public Administration Licence 2025 - 2026Awarded / complete8 May 2025—
Microsoft Enterprise Agreement and Related ServicesSoftware package and information systemsPlanned1 May 2025£21,481,026
Experts by Experience ServicesHealth and social work servicesPlanned7 Feb 2025£10,000,000
RM6102 DPS Call Off Contract for Artificial Intelligence (AI) Data Specialist Level 7 ApprenticeshipsDPSEducation and training servicesAwarded / complete12 Dec 2024—
Oracle Support & MaintenanceIT services: consultingAwarded / complete4 Oct 2024—

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Data coverage & method
  • Source: Find a Tender OCDS releases; mixed PCR 2015 / Procurement Act 2023 history — no legal-regime label is applied.
  • Counts are procedures (one notice family), not lots. Authority cluster = canonical buyer plus beneficiary and procuring-entity roles.
  • Published procedure values exist on a minority of notices; their lifetime sum (£133m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
  • Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 39 award records on 26 procedures (39 to a single canonical supplier, 0 multi-supplier). 22 values come from the contract record when the award carried none.
  • Bid counts, deadline-to-award, amendments and award-vs-estimate come from the nightly buyer analytics row; each figure’s own method and sample is behind its , the long form on Methodology.
  • Contract end dates: 30 of 74 published contracts carry a period end; 7 end within 18 months, 0 within 6.
  • Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (8 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)

Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.

GB-FTS-100948GB-FTS-149704GB-FTS-31391GB-FTS-35005GB-FTS-37846GB-FTS-47391GB-FTS-8452GB-NHS-8HN02

Canonical page id: GB-PPON-PBJZ-7139-JTHN