Spending transparency

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• Monthly expenditure over £25,000
• Government Procurement Card (GPC) expenditure over £500
• Five-day payment target
• Contracts
• Senior management and board expenses

Monthly expenditure over £25,000

This includes:

• individual invoices
• grant payments
• expense payments
• other such transactions

We must publish the total amount payable in a transaction. Single invoices worth £25,000 and over may be coded to multiple expense type/expense area combinations. The value shown for individual entries may be below £25,000.

Expenditure on paybill and transactions relating to income or the financing or underwriting of debt is excluded from the scope of these disclosures.

In keeping with HM Treasury guidance, some transactions should not be published (known as redactions). This only applies to transactions that could compromise national or personal security, foreign relations or contravene the law e.g. the Data Protection Act.

Each month is shown on a separate page in the annual record.

Government Procurement Card (GPC) expenditure over £500

All arms length bodies (ALBs) must publish GPC spend over £500.

Five-day payment target

We aim to pay suppliers within five days of receipt of a correctly rendered invoice. A correctly rendered invoice is one that:

• quotes a valid CQC purchase order number
• is addressed to the Care Quality Commission
• is sent direct to the Accounts Payable at CQC.

Our reports, updated monthly, show our performance against this target.

Each month is shown on a separate page in the annual record.

Contracts

Our contracts register gives details of all our current commercial contracts.

We also publish details of awarded contracts over £30,000 (Including VAT) on Find a Tender Service and/or Contracts Finder and advertise future opportunities on Find a Tender Service.

Commercial pipeline

Our commercial pipeline sets out future procurement plans. It outlines opportunities we expect to procure with a value of over £2,000,000 (inclusive of VAT and options). We update the pipeline every six months.

Please note: Our future plans for these procurements may change, and the details in the pipeline are subject to revision. Some future procurements may not yet be known and are therefore not included in the latest pipeline publication.

In accordance with the Procurement Act 2023, we also publish UK1 pipeline notices on Find a Tender Service for each future opportunity that we expect to procure within the next 18 months, where the estimated contract value exceeds £2 million (inclusive of VAT and options).

Expenses

Executive team expenses

Board members' expenses

Independent members' expenses

Chief inspectors' expenses

From April 2023, our chief inspectors' expenses are included with executive team expenses.