Awarded contract

Rainbow Connectors

Details

Buyer: NHS Wales - Shared Services Partnership
Supplier(s): Growing Space
Value: £9,500,000
Topic: Health services
Published: 28 March 2024
Source: uk:find_a_tender

Tender description

Rainbow Connectors – piloting/evaluation of service is being continued for a further 6 months, given patients needing service for continuity whilst we review needs/demands and engage the market on our intentions to develop an Alliance Commissioning Approach which will include the need for a more holistic Discharge from Hospital support service. Lot 1: Rainbow Connectors, piloting and evaluation of service is being continued for a further 6 months, given patients needing service for continuity whilst we review needs/demands and engage the market on our intentions to develop an Alliance Commissioning Approach which will include the need for a more holistic Discharge from Hospital support service.

Timeline

Completed: Award date27 March 2024
Completed: Award published28 March 2024
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

85100000 · Health services
85323000 · Community health 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