Buyer profile
Care Quality Commission
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Total contracts
520
Known spend
£305m
434 disclosed
Average value
£702,558
Per contract
Active suppliers
10
Last 5 years
Top suppliers
Last 5 years- 1
Rocket Exhibitions and Events
2 winslatest 05 Jun 2026£830,000
- 2
Blue Lozenge Limited
2 winslatest 19 Jun 2026£227,278
- 3
The Copyright Licensing Agency Limited
2 winslatest 07 May 2026£136,531
- 4
Diligent Boardbooks Limited
2 winslatest 07 Aug 2026£111,349
- 5
Rock Kitchen Harris Ltd
2 winslatest 09 Feb 2026£92,124
- 6
HITACHI SOLUTIONS EUROPE LTD
£43m
- 7
CHOICE SUPPORT
£7m
- 8
NATIONAL VOICES
£7m
- 9
WR Group t/a "Webrecruit"
1 winlatest 29 May 2026£770,000
- 10
BACK CARE SOLUTIONS LIMITED
£666,667
What they buy
By CPV categoryIT servicesCPV 72
123 contracts · £60m
Business servicesCPV 79
115 contracts · £8m
R&D servicesCPV 73
69 contracts · £10m
Education & trainingCPV 80
42 contracts · £6m
SoftwareCPV 48
28 contracts · £7m
Health & social workCPV 85
26 contracts · £45m
Architectural & engineeringCPV 71
20 contracts · £3m
Office & computing equipmentCPV 30
15 contracts · £4m
Renewal radar
Awarded contracts predicted to come up for re-tender in the next 18 months
- Recruitment Attraction and Advertising
Predicted using median duration of UK contracts in the same CPV division (11 months from contract start date → renewal expected by Oct 2027).
Oct 2027
40% confident
- MAXQDA Subscription 2025-2028
Predicted using median duration of UK contracts in the same CPV division (23 months from contract start date → renewal expected by Oct 2027).
Oct 2027
40% confident
- Adobe Licences (CCS ETLA)
Predicted using median duration of UK contracts in the same CPV division (23 months from contract start date → renewal expected by Mar 2028).
Mar 2028
40% confident
- File Storage, Retrieval and Destruction Services
Predicted using median duration of UK contracts in the same CPV division (23 months from contract start date → renewal expected by Apr 2028).
Apr 2028
40% confident
Tender activity
Notices published per month — last 24 months
All contracts (520)
Quality improvement programme
The Care Quality Commission ('CQC') is seeking to appoint a suitably qualified provider with expertise in quality improvement to help support and implement a sustainable programme
Invitation to tender - experts by experience service
The Care Quality Commission ("CQC") is seeking to re-procure its future "Experts by Experience" service requirement. Experts by Experience (ExE) are people who have experience of u
Oracle licence and support
CQC is required to annually renew the Oracle support and maintenance agreements for the database engines that underpin CRM; the CRM data warehouse; the Endeca database; the Siebel
Email marketing system
CQC are required to appoint a suitable supplier for the current mass email mailing system. The email system is to send out items such as: • our monthly newsletters • regulatory upd
Civi CRM hosting support development
Please refer to attached documentation for further details
Civi CRM training
Please refer to attached documentation for further details
New models of care
Contract variation linked to existing contract ref CQC AM 139 New Models of care (Lot 4) - Qualitative research by gathering views of statutory bodies and local advocacy groups on
Signposting and call handling support
Healthwatch England training and guidance review
Evaluation research
The Primary objective is to strengthen the evidence about CQC's contribution to improvements in quality of care. Further information on CQCs requirements can be found in the attach
Design and discovery of new digital services
CQC is embarking on a Digital Transformation to streamline and improve interactions with providers. This is to transform communication channels, improve registration, monitoring an
Development of digital services
CQC us embarking on a Digital Transformation to streamline and improve interactions with providers. This is to transform communication channels, improve registration, monitoring an
Advanced influencing and negotiation skills training
Training course for 12 delegates over 4 working days in advanced negotiation
National guardian development day
CQC (the Contracting Authority) wish to invite potential suppliers to provide a quote for the development, planning and delivery of a development day for Freedom to Speak up Guardi
Level 6 professional regulatory skills programme (OJEU restricted procedure) - this tender process has been abandoned
----------This tender process has been abandoned------------ The Care Quality Commission (the 'Contracting Authority') is seeking a suitably qualified Provider to design and delive
Invitation to tender - CQC national patient experience survey programme (ref: CQC PSO 114)
The Care Quality Commission ("CQC") is seeking to re-procure its future NHS Patient Survey Programmerequirements. CQC is responsible for delivering this programme on behalf of NHS
Accessible communications
CQC requires a management company to deliver all our accessible communications requirements. The contract will be used mainly by our Inspectorate and Engagement directorates. The b
Digital hosting and managed service
Provision of Digital hosting and Managed services Full details can be found in the attached contract
Text severity
The CQC require an automatic tool to analyse large numbers of online patient comments and detect significant negative changes in care quality. This poses challenges which distingui
Data science advise and analysis
Our requirement is to gain a thorough understanding of, and practical experience in, applying machine learning methods and so we are seeking an expert with an understanding of our
Experts systems
CQC are keen to explore the use of artificial intelligence to help us in targeting inspection resources. We want to develop tools that help inspectors come to decisions about wheth