Procurement in healthcare – finding the best route
Dedicated to the healthcare design and construction, Health Spaces are available on various frameworks for the NHS; frameworks that offer healthcare estates and design consultancy, and hospital build services. We understand that every NHS Trust has individual requirements, which is why our consultative approach ensures we work in close partnership with you to find the best route for your needs.
With a wealth of experience in healthcare architectural design, including experience in hospital new-builds and refurbishment, we are specialists in healthcare infrastructure, estates and design, and follow a proven ‘Understand, Create, Deliver’ methodology which allows us to deliver healthcare excellences seamlessly for our NHS partners.
The expertise of our multi-disciplinary team of healthcare professionals spans the full spectrum of hospital design and construction workflows – from clinical and estates strategy, including development and control plans, through to healthcare design programmes and delivery. Our integrated expertise includes the full spectrum of NHS estates – from new hospital builds to the re-configuration of existing healthcare spaces.
Health Spaces are accessible to NHS partners through a number of public sector frameworks. Services including Professional Services, Design, Construction and Modular Construction can be procured using these frameworks, and you can talk to one of our procurement experts to find the best route for you.
Procurement frameworks for the NHS
Procurement in healthcare is subject to rigorous regulations and guidelines, to ensure decisions are made based on the best interests of patients and staff, and guarantees an efficient use of public funds.
Health Spaces are accessible to NHS partners through a number of public sector frameworks.
Services including Professional Services, Design, Construction and Modular Construction can be procured using these frameworks, and you can talk to one of our healthcare procurement experts to find the best route for you.
Bloom, NEPRO ³
Framework Agreement: NEPRO ³
Delivery Partner: Bloom Procurement Services
Period of Agreement: 01/09/2019 – 31/08/2025
NEPRO ³ is an OJEU compliant procurement framework which provides a full end-to-end marketplace solution for the procurement, contract management and payment of all professional services. It allows the NHS to move quickly and at the best possible cost, whilst achieving excellent outcomes.
NEPRO ³ is the new and improved solution for the procurement of professional services
NEPRO3 is available across 20 categories and over 340 sub-categories of professional services spend, and is one of the fastest and most cost effective routes to market, enabling contracts to be compliantly awarded in as little as 15 days. It also allows full management of all contractual, commercial and delivery risk, through one contract with in-built IR35 safeguards and IP protection.
NHS Shared Business Services
Framework Agreement: Lot 1: Bespoke Modular Buildings for Purchase
Period of Agreement: 5th July 2021 – 4th July 2025
The Modular Buildings framework agreement provides a compliant route to access Modern Methods of Construction. This framework agreement includes the purchase, hire or lease of modular solutions, including; offsite building solutions, modular hospital buildings, patient offload departments (PODs) and education solutions.
The framework agreement for modular buildings provides bespoke solutions for your needs; from healthcare modular buildings to care homes to homeless shelters. This framework is open to the NHS, local authorities and other public sector organisations.
The framework offers on significant savings when compared to purchasing solutions direct.
What are the benefits of using the NHS SBS modular buildings framework agreement?
• MATURE FRAMEWORK AGREEMENT – With hundreds of healthcare modular projects delivered, from simple £20k hire to complex £20m+ healthcare new build and combined with experienced staff, the framework can support all requirements.
• MMC, NET ZERO AND THE CONSTRUCTION PLAYBOOK – Support the government strategy by ensuring that social value, sustainability, MMC and key principles of The Construction Playbook are incorporated within the framework agreement.
The efficiency gains from modular and offsite manufactured solutions support the delivery of the government’s construction and industry strategy targets, which include time and cost savings as well as whole life cost benefits and in use savings. This modular building framework in turn provides a fully UK compliant route for NHS and public sector organisations to procure all types of modular building solutions. The framework agreement has been awarded following a fair and open competition across the offsite construction and modular buildings market. The specification has been developed through thorough consultation with the market and experts in the field of Modern Methods of Construction.
• LESS ON-SITE DISRUPTION – Modular Buildings are pre-manufactured in a controlled factory environment and assembled on site offering a full turnkey solution.
• CONTROL OF COSTS – The framework provides the flexibility to purchase and hire from the capital and revenue budget. Production in a controlled factory environment will keep your project on time and on cost.
Modular buildings provide sustainable, greener solutions to help construction industry on the road to Net Zero.
ESPO
Framework Agreement : 953_22 Modular Buildings
Framework Period: 1st February 2022 – 31st January 2024 (Extension Option 31/01/2026)
As well as providing educational, healthcare, catering and accommodation units, ESPO’s Modular Buildings framework (953) also covers other standard modular buildings such as: site offices, changing rooms and many more options as well as bespoke modular buildings.
This ESPO framework offers customers a quick, simple, reliable and competitive route for procuring modular buildings. All of the suppliers on this framework have been selected for their experience and ability to provide a range of modular building solutions
Lot 2B Modular Healthcare Buildings (Purchase) – This Lot is for the purchase of healthcare buildings for a variety of uses including, but not limited to: new operating theatres, hospital wards, mortuaries, laboratories, pharmacies, GP surgeries, A&E departments, UTCs, dental surgeries and waiting rooms.
Procure Partnerships
Framework Agreement: The Procure East Midlands Framework
The Procure East Midlands Framework is a fully PCR 2015 compliant framework notified on Find a Tender Service (formerly the OJEU).
The framework is divided into regional-specific value banded lots. You can choose from different call off options; two-stage mini-competition, single-stage competitive tender, or direct award.
The Framework can be used for Design and Build, or Build Only projects, and you can choose from 8 call-off contracts.
How we work with our NHS partners
Our proven methodology allows us to work with your stakeholders from the very beginning of your healthcare construction journey to fully understand your hospital’s specific requirements – through stakeholder interviews and workshops we analyse all the details around improving patient experience, clinical outcomes and delivering operational efficiencies.
By taking a strategic approach to health planning, we ensure the projects we deliver for your immediate clinical requirements also support the wider estate strategy, enabling long-term estate infrastructure to always remain in focus.
We welcome NHS Trusts to contact us directly to discuss an approach that best suits your project needs.
