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Countess Of Chester Hospital Nhs Foundation Trust

National Framework Agreement for Tail End Management

Business ServicesCPV 79000000 79400000 79410000
Value£80.0m
Awarded11 Nov 2016
Published19 Jan 2017
RegionUK-wide
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£80.0mtotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£86.4m

This is a large award for Business Services — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 57,319 valued Business Services tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The desired service specification is for the establishment of a national framework agreement to provide client authorities with a fully managed service for the purchasing and management of their tail end purchase order spend including medical, non-medical and ad hoc supplies and services.

It should include the end to end supply chain management of the authority's tail end spend and at a high level include: audit of tail spend; savings delivery; purchase; supplier management; stock mangement; delivery and reporting.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

The desired service specification is for

The desired service specification is for the establishment of a national framework agreement to provide client authorities with a fully managed service for the purchasing and management of their tail end purchase order spend including medical, non-medical and ad hoc supplies and services.

02

It should include the end to end

It should include the end to end supply chain management of the authority's tail end spend and at a high level include: audit of tail spend; savings delivery; purchase; supplier management; stock mangement; delivery and reporting.

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The gates

What this notice demands of you

1 named, none in explicit obligation language. Each one is quoted from the notice.

Framework agreement (any)Frameworks & routes to market
National Framework Agreement for Tail End Management

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Stage
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F/039/TEM/16/LH Award Notice
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