Markets and Quality Insight System – Soft Market Testing

Tameside Council working with the North West Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (NW ADASS) wish to appoint a provider to design, develop and support a North West Markets and Quality Insight System (MQIS). This will be an online platform to enable local authorities to aggregate, analyse and visualise data about the region’s expenditure for care services. This system will incorporate supplementary data sources, in order to inform commissioning strategy, market oversight, risk profiling, quality improvement and provider engagement. See below the requirements: Essential: • Markets Spend and Placement Data • Financial credit ratings • CQC Quality Ratings • NW ADASS Dashboard data (summarising LA weekly data relating to care homes, including Covid outbreaks, staff absence, PPE). Desirable: • Local authority quality assessments of commissioned providers • Provider Returns (e.g. regional quality self assessments, vacancy data, Infection Control Questions) • Information Sharing Protocol – Our NW system of notifications using an uploaded completed proforma • NECs and CQC Capacity Tracker • Ambulance and 111 Data • Workforce Data – ASC-WDS, • SALT data and ASC-FR • Demographic data • Ad hoc NW ADASS data requests about markets • NW ADASS Quarterly Benchmarking Performance Reports