PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

Increasing feedback through digitial advertising

Care Quality Commission · published 14 Apr 2026. This page preserves the identifiers and current held fields for one Contracts Finder release; it is not an invoice, performance assessment or complete contract history.

Contracts Finder release IDa2678bce-6596-48fd-8ea7-edb118b75e20-892763
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-8aec49dd-7491-4784-b623-037e0446a9e4
Buyer identifierGB-CFS-238199
Release typeaward
PUBLISHED COMMERCIAL FIELDS

Values stay separate.

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Award value
£232,800
award field
Tender value
£232,800
tender field
Procurement method
Call-off from a dynamic purchasing system
Category
services
CPV
79341000
Advertising services
Delivery
Not stated
NE1 4PA
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

This is a Contract Award Notice. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) require DPS Call-Off contract to appoint a supplier that specialises in digital marketing to support our planned public behaviour change campaign work in the 2026/27 business year. This procurement was undertaken through the CCS Communications Marketplace DPS (RM6124) following the Further Competition process. The Contract is awarded for an initial period of 12 months with an option to extend for up to 24 months. Total Awarded Value is maximum of all charges including any optional contract extensions. Contract Reference: CQC EPS 117

Tender statuscomplete
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  1. 01Notice publishedPublication timestamp on the held release14 Apr 2026
  2. 02Tender period endsTender-period field as published23 Jan 2026
  3. 03Contract startsContract-period field as published31 Mar 2026
  4. 04Contract endsContract-period field as published3 Mar 2029
SUPPLIER EVIDENCE

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Published name only

Barley Communications Limited

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SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 14 Apr 2026 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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