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Public Healthcare - Outsourcing DPS

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Topic
Hospital and related services
Published
12 November 2021
Submission
29 October 2026in 1 month

Tender description

Provision of Medical Services to NHS Scotland Health Boards The Authority is establishing a Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) for External Medical Services. The DPS will be operated on a purely electronic basis and is open to new entrants for throughout its life who meet the minimum criteria specified in the PQQ. The PQQ is for a DPS for Providers with the potential additional capacity in the provision of range of inpatient procedures, clinics and outpatient services to support the NHS in Scotland in delivering comprehensive and effective healthcare services. Potential Providers are invited to submit a PQQ demonstrating capability for surgical procedures for adults and children to be performed by named qualified and competent surgeons, with all appropriate and necessary steps taken to limit complications, minimise infection, and to provide where appropriate aftercare and follow-up.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Tender published12 November 2021
    Current notice
  2. Next: Submission date29 October 2026in 1 month

About the buyer

NHS National Services Scotland is a national healthcare body serving NHS Scotland, and its National Procurement arm is Scotland's largest procurement organisation. Tenders are advertised on Public Contracts Scotland under the buyer name Common Services Agency. Suppliers apply for those tenders to get onto a national framework. Each contract record on the register names the framework, its dates, the winning suppliers and the National Procurement contract owner. The National Distribution Service then delivers stock to hospital wards and community centres across NHS Scotland. Innovative products can be submitted through an online innovation portal.

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 National Services Scotland's contract awards have been in medical equipment and pharmaceuticals, IT services and transport equipment.

Relevant CPV codes

  • 85110000 · Hospital and related services
  • 85111000 · Hospital services
  • 85111100 · Surgical hospital services
  • 85111200 · Medical hospital services
  • 85111300 · Gynaecological hospital services
  • 85111310 · In vitro fertilisation services
  • 85111320 · Obstetrical hospital services
  • 85111600 · Orthotic services
  • 85111800 · Pathology services
  • 85111810 · Blood analysis services
  • 85111820 · Bacteriological analysis services
  • 85111900 · Hospital dialysis services
  • 85112000 · Hospital support services
  • 85112100 · Hospital-bedding services
  • 85112200 · Outpatient care services

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