Awarded contract

OUTSOURCING ENT & PLASTICS

Details

Buyer: NHS Wales - Shared Services Partnership
Supplier(s): NUFFIELD HEALTH CARE LIMITED
Value: £1,048,709
Topic: Medical practice services
Published: 24 November 2023
Source: uk:sell2wales

Tender description

Outsourcing of NHS ENT & Plastic Surgery cases to private sector provider. Lot 1: Direct award of contract under Framework Agreement. Framework under which the procurement was completed is 'Framework Agreement for the Provision of Insourcing / Outsourcing Clinical, Surgical and Diagnostic Procedures' (FTS reference: 2023/S 000-029589) Contract awarded using direct call off procedure of the Framework Agreement. Initial term is for 6 months with option to extend for up to a further 24 months if funding becomes available.

Timeline

Completed: Award date1 October 2023
Completed: Award published24 November 2023
Current notice

About the buyer

NHS Wales - Shared Services Partnership is hosted by Velindre NHS Trust and buys as a healthcare body for every health board and trust in Wales through its Procurement Services division. Tenders are advertised on Sell2Wales and run through the eTenderWales portal. Frameworks cover capital equipment, pharmaceuticals, clinical supplies, food, utilities, maintenance, IT and the commissioning of healthcare services. Local procurement teams work with each health board alongside sourcing, supply chain and accounts payable teams. Where appropriate, tenders are split into smaller lots so SMEs can bid.

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 Wales - Shared Services Partnership's contract awards have been in health and social work, medical equipment and pharmaceuticals and repair and maintenance.

Relevant CPV codes

85121000 · Medical practice services

Decision makers

Connect with the people behind this procurement.

Job title	Phone number	Work email
Head of Procurement	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@nhs-wales-shared-services-partnership.gov
Commercial Director	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@nhs-wales-shared-services-partnership.gov
Procurement Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@nhs-wales-shared-services-partnership.gov
Category Lead	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@nhs-wales-shared-services-partnership.gov
Senior Buyer	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@nhs-wales-shared-services-partnership.gov
Contracts Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@nhs-wales-shared-services-partnership.gov