Category Management Service Provider contracts for NHS Supply Chain

Tender description

As part of the future Target Operating Model of NHS Supply Chain, the Authority is seeking to award contracts for the provision of category management services for each of the four defined Product Groups. The procurement will be conducted under a single procurement containing four Lots. Lot 1: Medical Consumables - Surgical Consumables and Infection Control Lot 2: Medical Consumables - Rehabilitation and Community Lot 3: Non-Medical - Food; and Lot 4: Non: Medical - Facilities (including Office Solutions) A copy of the Procurement Documentation, including the Descriptive Document, can be obtained from the eProcurement Portal as described within this Contract Notice. Each contract will be for an initial period of forty-five months (excluding the anticipated three month implementation period) and may be extended for up to an additional twenty-four months subject to achieving the relevant criteria set out in the contract. The total operative period of the contract, following implementation, shall not exceed sixty-nine months. The Authority intends to enter into contractual arrangements under which it will be entitled to appoint Category Management Service Providers (CMSPs) to operate on behalf of NHS Supply Chain. Under this contractual agreement the CMSPs will procure frameworks for the provision of supplies and/or services which it will make available for purchase by: 1) NHS Supply Chain, 2) any NHS Trust; 3) any other NHS entity or healthcare provider (including private organisations, primary care, community settings and social care); 4) any government department, agency, or other statutory body (including Devolved Authorities, Crown Dependencies and/or Pandemic & Emergency Planning Programmes), and/or 5) any private sector entity active in the UK healthcare sector on behalf of a public-sector organisation listed in 1) to 4) above.