Commissioning

CPI are experts in public sector commissioning. You can choose from a menu of services or an end to end commissioning and procurement package.

Our commissioning services include:

• Needs assessments
• Service user consultations
• Stakeholder consultations
• Performing rapid market appraisals
• Writing service specifications
• Managing and chairing selection processes.

Outcome Based Commissioning

Get more from your commissioning process.  CPI specialises in outcome based commissioning. This method allows you to identify and monitor the outcomes for your investment.

We often find organisations who fund others to achieve health and social benefits often end up unclear about the difference the investment really made for services users. They say "If only our providers would become more innovative, more efficient, more effective...maybe then we would see more results!"

Outcome based commissioning puts the emphasis on the commissioning team as the starting point for ensuring results. The tender proposals you request, your selection methods, your service contracts and monitoring all powerfully condition what you get. Indeed, the wording of the request for proposals or contracts in conventional funding not only establishes what you will soon be reading but what projects/services and results you will get as well.

CPI's outcome based commissioning approach will enable you, as the commissioner, to establish a process that secures better results. We have seen significant improvement in investment results in many organisations:

Bristol Children’s Trust
We supported a major transformation of their service structure using outcome-based commissioning to find a common language that can be used to contract and performance-manage a diverse range of services.

Be Safe Bolton
We have worked with Bolton for more than five years, during which time Be Safe has restructured both their drug and alcohol treatment systems. The outcome is an investor approach, where providers and commissioners work together to solve problems. During this major redesign, services have worked with commissioners to agree fundamentally different specifications, without requiring the core contracts to be taken to market.

Contact us to discuss how CPI can improve your commissioning outcomes.