Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2020-12-21
Buyer: Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust as host of NHS London Procurement Partnership
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 79000000 | 79600000 | 79620000 | 85100000: Health services
Estimated value: 3200000000 GBP
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Procurement in Partnership (comprising NHS London Procurement Partnership, East of England NHS Collaborative Procurement Hub, NHS Commercial Solutions and NHS North of England Commercial Procurement) in collaboration with Crown Commercial Service (CCS), together known as Workforce Alliance, ran a tendering process to establish a framework agreement for the provision of high quality, temporary, permanent and fixed term clinical and healthcare staffing services outlined in Lots 1-6. Lot 7 (permanent and fixed term staffing) was not awarded. This is open to all UK-based NHS and Public Sector bodies, subject to approval of workforce alliance, including but not limited to:
Sourcing, introduction and supply of high quality, trained and fully vetted temporary Nursing and Midwifery staffing, to include, but not be limited to, the following job groups:
Sourcing, introduction and supply of high quality, trained and fully vetted, temporary medical and dentistry staffing,to include, but not be limited to, the following specialties:
Sourcing, introduction and supply of high quality, trained and fully vetted, temporary Allied Health professionals and health science services staffing, to include, but not be limited to, the following job groups, at any and all appropriate grades:
Sourcing, introduction and supply of high quality, trained and fully vetted, temporary emergency service staffing to include, but not be limited to, the following job groups:
Sourcing, introduction and supply of high quality, trained and fully vetted, temporary social care staffing, to include, but not be limited to, the following specialties:
The sourcing and provision of high quality, trained and fully vetted temporary clinical and healthcare staffing using framework approved supply chain. The Neutral Vendor does not supply temporary workers directly from their own resource pool.
The neutral vendor would be the contracting authority’s only point of contact not the supply chain directly. The neutral vendor would manage the supply chain and invoice the contracting authority on behalf of the supply chain.
Provision of end-to-end permanent and fixed term contract recruitment services for all job groups within Lots 1 to 5.
This framework also covers the UK Crown Dependencies of Isle of Man, Guernsey and Jersey. Further information may be found at: http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/AcuteTrustListing.aspx
Arms Length Bodies: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/arms-length-bodies/our-arms-length-bodies
NHS England: http://www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/d-com/ and other organisations involved in commissioning of primary care services via Clinical Commissioning Groups — CCGs supported by the Commissioning Support Units — CSU's which will be responsible for commissioning most aspects of NHS care (or equivalent body/bodies established pursuant to legislation enacted as a result of, or in connection with, the white paper, equity and excellence: liberating the NHS published July 2010.
http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/AreaTeamListing.aspx and other organisations involved in commissioning and/or overseeing general practitioner services and GP consortia and GP Practices: and any other provider of primary medical services:
(b) commissioned by NHS England or other organisations involved in commissioning or overseeing general practitioner services, as described above.
NHS Wales (National Health Service for Wales): the members of the East of England NHS CPH may be found at: https://www.eoecpc.nhs.uk/current-members


Winner: Please see: https://www.lpp.nhs.uk/media/203731/Successful-bidders-summery.pdf
Award value: 3200000000
Number of bids: 532