North East London Health & Care Procurement Partnership

These Providers span our Acute hospitals (St Barts, Barking Havering and Redbridge, Homerton.) Our Non-Acute Providers (East London Foundation and Trust, North East London Foundation Trust Procurement Shared Service, which also provides Procurement Services Barnet, Enfield and Haringey and Camden and Islington Trusts).  And the Procurement team within our Integrated Care Board.  The Partnership will be designed such that it could reach beyond Secondary Providers into Primary care (other Social care) in the future

The primary purpose of our coming together is to collectively form a sector leading fit-for-future procurement function for NEL healthcare, with focus on service for providers, maximising overall value for the public purse and most importantly quality to patients.  We will be driven and guided by the following Ambition statements:

 

People and Skills  

  • We will design and implement professional skills and career development pathways for our people; providing resilience, capacity and capability across the system to deliver key NHS North-East London priorities and patient care outcomes.

Efficiency and Productivity

  • We will utilise business intelligence, performance and governance platforms to inform strategic decision-making; collectively identifying and delivering financial and non-financial efficiency and improvement-based value outcomes.

Quality and innovation

  • We will influence the delivery of excellent, clinically led, quality and innovation focussed benefits for our patients across the NHS North-East London patient pathway; proactively engaging and supporting clinical and non-clinical stakeholders across the System.

Strategic Procurement and Partnerships 

  • We will create best in class Procurement and Contract Management outcomes, based on robust Category Management, Business Partnering and Supplier Relationship Management led strategies; utilising wider NHS North-East London, regional and national partnerships and networks to deliver value for our patients

Sustainability and Supply Chain Management

  • We will become a NEL ICS Anchor Institute, achieving sustainability and social value benefits, as part of delivering an optimised Supply Chain Management strategy; prioritising patient safety through effective inventory management, supply risk mitigation planning and implementing supplies and logistics related systems and process efficiency.

The North-East London Heath and Care Procurement Partnership is not a legal entity and has no im mediate plans to become one.  While joint co-ordinated Procurement activity will now be undertaken across the Trusts - the individual Trusts (listed above) remain the legal entities by which all Procurement activity is formally agreed.

The Partnership will act and operate as one where possible, and internal and external activity and communication will increasingly be issued through the Partnership (as opposed to Trust by Trust)

Working for the Trusts – Tender Opportunities

Instructions to all Suppliers

Ways to find tender opportunities for NEL Trusts

Actions

Links

Trusts

Sign Up to Atamis which is an esourcing portal utilised by all five trusts

Atamis:

https://atamis-1928.my.site.com/s/Welcome

This is the main esourcing portal for all five Trusts.

Sign up to Multiquote

Multiquote: https://suppliers.multiquote.com/Page/Login.aspx

NELFT use this route to market

Sign up to Contracts Finder

Contracts Finder:

https://www.gov.uk/contracts-finder

Please note Post 28th October 2024 this service will be replaced by FTS

All five Trusts are required to publish opportunities, where applicable and publish contracts on this platform over £30,000.

Sign up to Find A Tender Service (FTS)

Find a Tender Service:

https://www.gov.uk/find-tender

All five Trusts are required to publish tendering opportunities and contract awards over the relevant UK procurement Thresholds (Goods & Services Threshold (£139,688) / Works Threshold (£5,372,609)), where a framework agreement is not being utilised.

Look at joining a framework agreement

It is important to note that all five Trust’s utilise National Framework Providers for requirements, where relevant. Below are the key National Framework Providers the Trusts call off from and how to join upcoming framework agreements, this is not an exhaustive list:

 

 

 

 

Procurement Act 2023 – Information for suppliers

Public Procurement law is changing. The new Procurement Act 2023 will be coming 28th October 2024. The North East London Health & care Procurement Partnership wants to keep our suppliers as up-to-date and supported as possible.

If your business supplies goods, works or services to organisations in the public and utility sectors – or hopes to do so – you need to know about the changes.  The new Procurement Act will benefit suppliers of all sizes, particularly start-ups, scale-ups and Small, Medium sized Enterprises.

Central Government are creating a Central Digital Platform for Suppliers to register and store their details so that they can be used for multiple bids (it is the Suppliers responsibility to keep the details up to date) and see all tender opportunities in one place. This Central Digital Platform will simplify bidding processes will make it easier to bid, negotiate and work in partnership with the public sector.

Supplier Action Required : Please register onto the Central Digital Platform once it becomes available to ensure you see all tendering opportunities after the 28th October 2024. For further details please contact: [Cabinet office email]

Supplier Action Required : Central Government have released a number of training videos called ‘Knowledge Drops’ aimed at all Suppliers and specific additional training for SME/VCSEs.

Please ensure you watch all the relevant ‘Knowledge Drops’ videos set out below:

Short Guide for Suppliers

Suppliers Part 1

Suppliers Part 2

Suppliers Part 3

The next three videos are aimed at Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs) and voluntary, community and social enterprises (VCSEs):

SME/VCSEs Part 1

SME/VCSEs Part 2

SME/VCSEs Part 3

Working for the Trusts – Contact Details

Each Trust has a procurement function that procures Goods, Works and Services on behalf of their relevant Trust, primary contact details for each team can be found below.

Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust:

Barts Heath NHS Trust; comprising of St Bartholomew’s Hospital, The Royal London Hospital, Mile End Hospital, Whipps Cross Hospital and Newham Hospital:

  • Contact Email:
  • Phone Number:
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust (BHRUT); comprising of Queens Hospital and King George Hospital:
  • Contact Email:
  • Phone Number:

North East London NHS Foundation Trust (NELFT):

  • Contact Email:
  • Phone Number:

East London NHS Foundation Trust (ELFT):

  • Contact Email:
  • Phone Number: