# Healthwatch Barnsley > Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources. ## Key facts - Public buyer: [Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council](/buyers/barnsley-metropolitan-borough-council/contract-awards) - Contract winner: Voluntary Action Barnsley - Award value: £450,000 - Tender value: £450,000 - Award date: 21 March 2016 - Published: 18 November 2016 - Contract start: 1 April 2016 - Contract end: 31 March 2018 - Stage: awarded - Procurement category: services - Notice ID: 1ca5e11d-a9e0-42f4-9a59-bb42f8be34e6-84881 - OCID: ocds-b5fd17-342b2633-adc9-11e6-9901-0019b9f3037b ## Description Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council \(BMBC\) are seeking bids from providers to deliver the Healthwatch Barnsley\. Healthwatch Barnsley has been acting as the voice of local people and delivering quality community engagement work since 2013\. We are now looking to build on those foundations to develop a Healthwatch which continues to deliver an excellent user-focused service whilst securing additional funding to enhance the current provision\. This procurement seeks to learn from the experience of the current contract to focus future work on the most essential areas of Healthwatch activity for Barnsley, whilst maintaining the requirement for covering the whole of the statutory obligations placed on local Healthwatch\. Additional information: Instructions to Suppliers: Register interest on the YORTender portal\. ## Related contract awards - [Attendance monitoring for SEND \(SSA & Post 16\)](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-10b8876e-2605-4200-be5d-e6973bb7ec31): Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council - [SAP Licensing Management](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-f705ed79-9a6c-4847-aaf8-08e41f5d8b97): Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council - [Provision of Attendance Monitoring Service](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-968c5ec6-4b50-4a28-bf0e-09ed46ab3993): Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council ## Source [View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/1ca5e11d-a9e0-42f4-9a59-bb42f8be34e6-84881)