Expired contract

Healthwatch Service

Details

Buyer: Stoke-on-Trent City Council
Supplier(s): Engaging Communities Staffordshire
Value: £925,000
Duration: 5 years
Topic: Health and social work services
Published: 12 October 2018
Source: ContractsFinder

Tender description

Stoke-on-Trent City Council wishes to commission a Healthwatch service that will: • Act as local consumer champion representing the collective voice of patients, service users, carers and the public • Support individuals to access information and advice about services • Provide or signpost people to independent advocacy if they need help to complain about NHS services • Have real influence with commissioners, providers, regulators and HealthWatch England using their knowledge of what matters to local people

Timeline

Completed: Award date2 October 2018
Completed: Award published12 October 2018
Current notice
Completed: Contract expiry date31 January 2024

About the buyer

Stoke-on-Trent City Council is a local authority, and its Category Management team runs procurement from the Civic Centre. Contract opportunities are listed on the council's own tender-search portal and on the government's Contracts Finder service. Pro-Contract, the Supply Stoke and Staffordshire portal, hosts contract opportunities shared across Staffordshire councils. A Commercial Pipeline gives suppliers advance notice of upcoming contracts before they are formally advertised. Every tendering procedure follows the council's own Procurement Code alongside the Procurement Act 2023. An awarded contracts directory publishes the outcome of every past tender for suppliers to review.

UK local government drives £140bn in annual procurement, led by social protection (£66.6bn) and education (£57.1bn).

Over the past 5 years, most of Stoke-on-Trent City Council's contract awards have been in construction work, architectural and engineering services and health and social work.

Relevant CPV codes

85000000 · Health and social work services

Decision makers

Connect with the people behind this procurement.

Job title	Phone number	Work email
Head of Procurement	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@stoke-on-trent-city-council.gov
Commercial Director	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@stoke-on-trent-city-council.gov
Procurement Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@stoke-on-trent-city-council.gov
Category Lead	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@stoke-on-trent-city-council.gov
Senior Buyer	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@stoke-on-trent-city-council.gov
Contracts Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@stoke-on-trent-city-council.gov