Expired contract

Link: Solutions 2

Details

Value
£500,000,000
Duration
4 years
Topic
Computer equipment and supplies
Published
17 October 2020

Tender description

NHS Shared Business Services are looking to renew an existing framework which expands upon the current offering. Due to a consistent and growing market for one-stop solutions, the new framework will focus on allowing contracting authorities to purchase full IT solutions. Therefore NHS Shared Business Services are looking for providers of full IT Infrastructure Software, Servers and Storage Hardware, Networking, Virtualization, other Services and End User & Solutions Software and all associated products and services within these solution requirements.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award date10 August 2020
  2. Completed: Award published17 October 2020
    Current notice
  3. Completed: Contract expiry date9 August 2024

About the buyer

NHS Shared Business Services, a joint venture with the Department of Health and Social Care, provides procurement services to the NHS and wider public sector as a central healthcare organisation. Tender opportunities are advertised on Find a Tender, the central digital platform and SAP Ariba. Suppliers register on both platforms to bid for a place on its framework agreements. Listing on a framework is free, with a nominal fee charged only on sales made through it. NHS bodies and the wider public sector call off from these frameworks under the Provider Selection Regime.

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 NHS Shared Business Services's contract awards have been in software and information systems, business services and IT services.

Relevant CPV codes

  • 30200000 · Computer equipment and supplies
  • 30210000 · Data-processing machines (hardware)
  • 30211000 · Mainframe computer
  • 30211100 · Super computer
  • 30211200 · Mainframe hardware
  • 30211300 · Computer platforms
  • 30211400 · Computer configurations
  • 30211500 · Central processing unit (CPU) or processors
  • 48000000 · Software package and information systems
  • 48200000 · Networking, Internet and intranet software package
  • 48210000 · Networking software package
  • 48220000 · Internet and intranet software package
  • 48710000 · Backup or recovery software package
  • 48760000 · Virus protection software package
  • 48761000 · Anti-virus software package
  • 48780000 · System, storage and content management software package
  • 48800000 · Information systems and servers
  • 48820000 · Servers
  • 72222300 · Information technology services

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