Awarded contract

Programme Controls, Commercial & Strategic Support at the New Velindre Cancer Centre

Details

Buyer: NHS Wales - Shared Services Partnership
Supplier(s): Gardiner and Theobald Limited
Value: £394,997
Topic: Structural engineering consultancy services
Published: 26 August 2025
Source: uk:find_a_tender

Tender description

This contract relates to the provision of external support to deliver a number of recommendations from the Capacity and Capability review. The work covers programme controls support, implementation of contract and risk management processes, development of tools and reporting for decision-making, mentoring of internal roles and capability building, and targeted support around commercial, planning, and strategic functions. Lot 1: To regularise the position and ensure compliance moving forward the contract will be directly awarded under the SEWTAPs Framework. This approach is compliant, justified by continuity, urgency, and technical specialism, and endorsed by both Procurement and project governance.

Timeline

Completed: Award date13 May 2025
Completed: Award published26 August 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

71312000 · Structural engineering consultancy services
71530000 · Construction consultancy 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