Closed tender

Tail End Management Framework Agreement 2024

Details

Published
1 August 2024
Submission
3 September 2024

Tender description

The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust's Commercial Procurement Services seek to establish a national framework agreement for Tail End Management which may be utilised by any NHS Organisation or the wider public sector. It should include the end to end supply chain management of the authority’s tail end spend and at a high level include: audit of tail spend; savings delivery; purchase; supplier management; stock management; delivery and reporting.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Tender published1 August 2024
    Current notice
  2. Completed: Submission date3 September 2024

About the buyer

Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides acute hospital care in Chester as part of the NHS healthcare sector, buying through a dedicated procurement department. Formal tenders are advertised on the Atamis e-tendering portal via NHS Sourcing. Larger contracts also appear on Find a Tender, with smaller awards on Contracts Finder. A Strategic Procurement team runs tendering and reverse e-auctions for commodity pricing. The Trust's Commercial Procurement Services hosts national framework agreements for NHS trusts and public bodies. Clinical procurement specialists coordinate product trials with suppliers.

UK health spending has nearly quadrupled to £241.8bn in 2024/25, £20bn up on the year before. £140.6bn of that went to procurement, the biggest sector of UK public spending and the fastest-growing.

Over the past 5 years, most of Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust's contract awards have been in construction work, medical equipment and pharmaceuticals and repair and maintenance.

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