Lubricants

Tender description

The NHS has a procurement strategy, which aims to increase transparency, remove price variations between trusts and to streamline product ranges to avoid proliferation and fragmentation. It is anticipated that such an approach may enable the NHS to meet its efficiency and savings targets. That broad strategy was discussed by Lord Carter in his report of 2016 entitled ‘Operational productivity and performance in English NHS acute hospitals: Unwarranted variations’ (the ‘Report’) in which he challenged the NHS to save £700m through better procurement. The NCPP has been developed by NHS Improvement with important input being provided by stakeholders such as the Clinical Evaluation Team and NHS Supply Chain in part to deliver the relevant recommendations in the report and to generate savings. One of the aims of the NCPP is to standardise the procurement of certain suitable products (and/or categories of products) and to aggregate the demand for such goods. As part of this strategy NHS Supply Chain are undertaking a procurement exercise to establish a contract for Ultrasound Gels, this will include but not limited to; 20ml Sachets; 250ml Bottle and 5L container.