Citation swoops for fifth takeover so far this year
The fifth acquisition so far this year has been completed by Wilmslow-based health and safety adviser, The Citation Group.
It has bought QuiqSolutions, a provider of cloud-based compliance and quality management solutions for health and social care providers, NHS Trusts, local authorities, schools and multi-academy trusts around the UK, for an undisclosed sum.
Established in 2011 and based in Prees in Shropshire, QuiqSolutions provides essential tracking and reporting tools which help care sector clients easily manage compliance assurance in their organisations and sphere of responsibility.
This includes enabling organisations to prepare for and make readily available information required for CQC inspections or other regular audits, as well as prepare surveys and action plans. These tools are equally as suitable for clients with hundreds of sites as those operating from a single site.
The Citation Group’s goal is to help simplify mission-critical and regulatory compliance tasks, so organisations can focus on what they do best, growing and thriving.
Citation has a history of working with QuiqSolutions, including a partnership which has been in place since 2015 to provide its CQC Pro product to Citation’s Care sector clients.
By integrating QuiqSolutions’ offerings into Citation’s product suite, The group will be able to support even more care sector clients with these market-leading tools and advice. Citation has more than 2,000 care sector clients across the UK and this acquisition complements the bespoke care solutions they’re already benefiting from, it said.
This latest acquisition comes off the back of a recent expansion into North America through the acquisition of HRdownloads, a Canadian HR software and service provider.
Neal Moores, QuiqSolutions founder, said: “I’m excited about today’s announcement and see huge further potential for QuiqSolutions as part of The Citation Group.
“We first started working with Citation in 2015, delivering our CQC Pro product to its client base, and have had tremendous success with Citation’s support. Citation shares the same focus and commitment to developing simple and effective quality and compliance tools and has an even broader suite of solutions our clients can benefit from. I’m confident the business will go from strength to strength over the coming months and years.”
Chris Morris, group CEO of The Citation Group, said: “We are thrilled to welcome QuiqSolutions to The Citation Group family and are proud of this latest acquisition, which is our seventh in the last 12 months.
“The Citation Group is committed to delivering top quality compliance solutions for businesses to successfully operate and grow in today’s evolving compliance landscape.”
