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Care Quality Commission: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

GOV.UK register: Executive non-departmental public bodyCentral governmentNorth East EnglandNewcastle upon Tyne

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

Open now0no live notices
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Notices, last 12 months19+6% vs prior 12 months (18)
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Top-3 supplier share7%of 417 awarded procedures · 297 suppliers
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417 awarded tenders, 297 different suppliers.

Contracts ending ≤18 months6832 within 6 months · 4 estimated
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Published award value, 24m£55mnet · on 22 of 22 published values · top 5 = 97%
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What they buy
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Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each

72 IT services: consulting, software, internet41 procedures · 111%
79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting30 procedures · 81%
48 Software package and information systems15 procedures · 41%
73 Research and development services15 procedures · 41%
80 Education and training services15 procedures · 41%
85 Health and social work services5 procedures · 14%
39 Furniture, furnishings, domestic appliances3 procedures · 8%
63 Supporting and auxiliary transport; travel3 procedures · 8%

How they buy
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Last 24 months · 37 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim

Commercial tool
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  • Contract89%(33 notices)
    33 of 37 notices are Contract (89%).
  • Dynamic purchasing system8%(3 notices)
    3 of 37 notices are Dynamic purchasing system (8%).
  • Framework3%(1 notice)
    1 of 37 notices is Framework (3%).
Procedure route
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  • Direct award41%(15 notices)
    15 of 37 notices are Direct award (41%).
  • Selective27%(10 notices)
    10 of 37 notices are Selective (27%).
  • Route not published24%(9 notices)
    9 of 37 notices are Route not published (24%).
  • Limited / restricted5%(2 notices)
    2 of 37 notices are Limited / restricted (5%).
  • Open3%(1 notice)
    1 of 37 notices is Open (3%).
Bids per lot, few lots
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Based on 4 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Fewer than 5 lots: a median, not a typical figure.

3.5moderate · n=425% of lots drew a single bid
Notice amendments
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Based on 37 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

03 of 37 notices amended
Award vs estimate
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Based on 1 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months. Small sample.

0% at estimateindicative · n=1

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

SupplierProceduresShareLast 24mAward recordsLast activity
SThree Partnership LLP143.4%01424 Mar 2023
private public limitedframework/DPS on 192.2%4148 Aug 2025
Picker Institute Europeframework/DPS on 592.2%01018 May 2023
RSM UK Consulting LLPframework/DPS on 881.9%0917 Mar 2023
IIZUKA SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED71.7%2715 Oct 2026
Oracle Corporation UK Limited71.7%0823 Mar 2021
Diligent Boardbooks Limited61.4%2617 Jul 2024
IPSOS (MARKET RESEARCH) LTDframework/DPS on 161.4%01222 Dec 2023

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 7% of 417 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 297 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards, not a statement of preference.

Published award value (24m)
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£55mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 22 of 22 published single-supplier values; the five largest make 97%.
Typical single-supplier award (24m)
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£75k middle valuerobust · n=22Middle half £46k–£251k.
Largest published awards
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SupplierAwardedTermPublished value
Regulatory IT Platform Delivery PartnerHitachi Solutions Europe Ltd16 Jul 20263 yrs£43,333,333
≈ £14m/yr
CQC Experts by Experience ServicesChoice Support——£7,445,364 †
CQC Public Engagement NetworkNational Voices——£1,297,492 †
Supply and Installation of Specialist Ergonomic Furniture / Equipment SolutionsBACK CARE SOLUTIONS4 Jun 20264 yrs£666,667
≈ £167k/yr
Associate Project Manager Level 4 ApprenticeshipCalderdale College——£399,000 †

Contracts ending
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432 of 452 contracts carry an end date, 22 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast

ContractHolderEndsPublished value
RM1557.12 Framework Call Off Contract for Pluralsight On-Demand Technology Skills Development PlatformPluralsight, LLC24 Nov 2026£100,000
BrowserStackBrowserStack Inc.15 Dec 2026£31,335
Managed Hosted Infrastructure ServicesComputacenter (UK) Limited31 Dec 2026£950,207
RM6259 Call-Off Contract for National Resource Planning Solution (Cygnum Support & Maintenance)CACI Ltd31 Dec 2026£1,044,323
Managed Hosted Infrastructure ServicesCOMPUTACENTER (UK) LIMITED31 Dec 2026£581,134
Regulatory IT Platform Delivery Partner - InterimHitachi Solutions Europe Ltd4 Jan 2027£2,230,000
RM6102 DPS Call Off Contract for Digital Accessibility Specialist Level 4 ApprenticeshipsPurple Beard Ltd8 Jan 2027£320,000 ceiling
CQC Parliamentary & Stakeholder Monitoring ServiceRandall's Monitoring12 Jan 2027£28,000
RM6126 DPS Call Off Contract for NHS Patient Survey ProgrammePicker Institute Europe1 Feb 2027£4,560,000 ceiling
NHS Patient Survey Approved Contractor FrameworkEXPLAIN MARKET RESEARCH LIMITED, IQVIA UK, Picker Institute Europe +11 Feb 2027£8,000,000 ceiling

Soonest 10 of 68 contracts ending within 18 months.

Recent procedures

Latest 50 of 63 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
Research and Evaluation FrameworkFramework11 lotsCustomer satisfaction surveyAwarded / complete30 Jul 2024£6,666,667
Oracle License, Support & MaintenanceIT services: consultingAwarded / complete11 Apr 2024—
RM6102 DPS Call Off Contract for Digital Product Manager Level 4 ApprenticeshipsDPSEducation and training servicesAwarded / complete12 Mar 2024—
RM6102 DPS Call Off Contract Data Technical L3, Data Analyst L4 and Digital and Techsolutions Professional L6DPSEducation and training servicesAwarded / complete28 Nov 2023—
RM6102 DPS Call Off Contract Cyber Security Technologist Level 4 ApprenticeshipsDPSEducation and training servicesAwarded / complete19 Sept 2023—
Research and Evaluation Multi-lot FrameworkFrameworkSocial research servicesPlanned11 Sept 2023£2,000,000
Assessing the way systems engage with people - Research 15Social research servicesPlanned11 Sept 2023—
Tell us about Your Care PartnershipsAdvertising and marketing servicesAwarded / complete26 Jun 2023£250,000
CC-541942 lotsEducation and training servicesPlanned1 Jun 2023£1
NHS Patient Survey Approved Contractor FrameworkFrameworkMarket and economic research; polling and statisticsAwarded / complete26 May 2023£8,000,000

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Contracts Finder adds 388 more procedures by this authority, mostly below the Find a Tender threshold or from before 2025. Each is counted once beside any Find a Tender copy; they are in the totals, not in this list or in search.

About this data
  • One profile per authority. Different spellings and registration numbers of the same body are merged into this profile. It includes tenders the authority ran for other bodies and tenders run on its behalf; spend is credited to the body that pays.
  • Values are published values. Award values are what the authority published, excluding VAT and framework ceilings. They are not a budget or total spend.
  • Contract end dates. 432 of 452 published contracts have an end date; 22 of those are estimated as the signature (or publication) date plus the published duration and are marked “estimated”. They feed “Contracts ending”, the same rule as the retender radar. Published values in that list come from either source; Contracts Finder figures are shown as published and stay out of this profile’s money totals.
  • Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender and Contracts Finder), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0, updated through the day and rebuilt nightly. Not every figure uses both feeds, and each one shows how many records it rests on: see the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.