Market manager
Strategic Cost, Risk and Market Intelligence in One Platform. Strategically manage the cost, sustainability and risk of your complex commissioned care market in one place with Valuing Care’s Market Manager
What Market Manager Enables
By combining activity data from your commissioned packages with Valuing Care’s benchmarking models and publicly available datasets, you can:
See Your Market Clearly
Generate a complete view of total spend across complex placements.Understand average and provider-level operating margins.
Analyse workforce cost assumptions and pay rates.
Identify cost variation by cohort, geography or service type.
Strengthen Provider Oversight
Generate individual provider dashboards aggregating all commissioned packages.
View provider health indicators including:
CQC ratings and inspection outcomes
Margin analysis against benchmark cost models
Spot emerging risk trends early.
Identify Risk and Market Fragility
Highlight placements operating at unsustainably low margins.
Flag providers at risk of financial distress.
Understand concentration risk where spend is clustered.
Support proactive contingency planning.
Improve Negotiation and Value for Money
Target placements with highest operating margins for review.
Support structured price negotiations with data-led evidence.
Model the financial impact of proposed rate changes before agreement.
Ensure public funds are used proportionately and fairly.
Support Strategic Commissioning Decisions
Inform sufficiency strategies.
Understand long-term cost pressures.
Model impact of market shifts (wage increases, inflation, demand growth).
Provide defensible audit trails for funding decisions.
Market Manager goes beyond reporting
It combines your organisation’s live placement data with Valuing Care’s independent cost models and external public intelligence to give commissioners a clear, defensible view of:
Total market spend
Provider operating margins
Staff pay assumptions
Inflationary pressure
Financial sustainability risk
Why It’s Different
Market Manager is not a passive reporting tool.
It integrates:
Independent cost of care modelling
Live commissioning data
Public regulatory intelligence
The result is a single, strategic view of cost, sustainability and risk — enabling confident, evidence-led commissioning decisions.
Core Licence
Provides unrestricted user access across the licensed organisation (council, ICB/LHB or provider) for all case cohorts covered by the selected modules.
How to purchase
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