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Somerset Health and Social Care Training, Workforce Development and Innovation Open Framework

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Buyer
Somerset NHS Foundation Trust
Value
£5,000,000
Topic
Education and training services
Published
6 November 2026
Submission
16 December 2026in 1 month
Source
uk:find_a_tender

Tender description

Somerset Health and Care Academy (“the Academy”) is a strategic partnership established through a contractual joint venture between Somerset Council (SC), Somerset NHS Foundation Trust (SFT), and NHS Somerset Integrated Care Board (ICB). The purpose of the Academy is to establish a high-quality, flexible and scalable provider base to deliver training, workforce development, and innovation services aligned to system-wide workforce priorities, with a particular focus on providing high quality social care training programmes. SFT is running this procurement on behalf of the Academy.

Timeline

  1. Tender published6 November 2026
    Current notice
  2. Submission date16 December 2026in 1 month

About the buyer

Somerset NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital and community services across Somerset, and buys as an NHS trust with its own team of procurement and contract management specialists. Non-clinical procurement runs through framework agreements, including NHS Supply Chain, NHS Shared Business Services and the Crown Commercial Service.

Clinical services contracts follow the Provider Selection Regime at any contract value.

Over the past 5 years, most of Somerset NHS Foundation Trust's contract awards have been in repair and maintenance, IT services and medical equipment and pharmaceuticals.

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