Stale Pre-tender

Provision of a Diploma in Healthcare Planning for NHS Wales

Details

Buyer: NHS Wales - Shared Services Partnership
Value: £2,426,900
Topic: Welfare services not delivered through residential institutions
Published: 23 May 2025
Submission: 25 September 2025
Source: uk:find_a_tender

Tender description

NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership have awarded a contract for the delivery of a Diploma in Healthcare Planning to Cardiff University. This programme is informed by the latest research, combining robust theoretical foundations with up-to-date knowledge of the NHS in Wales and the emerging challenges faced by public sector leaders. The course is expected to accommodate up to 25 participants annually throughout the 10-year contract period from 1st September 2026 - 31st August 2029 with option to extend up to 31st August 2035.

Timeline

Completed: Pre-tender published23 May 2025
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

85312400 · Welfare services not delivered through residential institutions

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