Our extensive portfolio of framework agreements are designed to ensure ease of access. They are actively managed, free to access and provide a compliant route to market in line with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, Provider Selection Regime and the Procurement Act 2023.
We have experienced procurement professionals who can undertake further competitions on your behalf, running the end-to-end process for both individual and multiple provider organisations. Or, if you are looking to run a further competition on a self-serve basis, we can provide further competition templates, guidance, and some subject matter expert advice.
There are 2,274 approved organisations who have access to the framework agreement portfolio and as such, can utilise any NHS SBS framework agreement whenever required.
Lord Darzi’s independent investigation of the state of the NHS in England punctuated how productivity can be significantly enhanced through digital transformation, elective recovery efforts and modernising the NHS estate. Our framework agreements can support you in achieving these objectives.
Whether it’s addressing capacity issues, embracing digital technologies, or improving your facilities and estates, we can help.
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Customer Framework Agreement Portal
Our Customer Framework Agreement Portal allows you to:
- Browse our range of framework agreements, with instant access to all associated documents
- Search by keyword to easily find the information you’re looking for
- Access support from our team of experts, who can advise on further competitions and answer any questions you might have
Why choose our framework agreements?
Easy to access
Our easy to access framework agreements have been designed to ensure competitive pricing, help drive savings and improve efficiencies. To allow more flexibility, you can directly call-off from a framework agreement or run a further competition. They offer a compliant route to market, providing a comprehensive choice of suppliers and excellent geographic coverage.
Flexible Options to Suit You
Depending on your needs, we can arrange one-off access to certain framework agreement contracts to meet a specific demand. Alternatively, we can offer you access to our full framework agreement portfolios, enabling you to shift away from simply buying at the lowest price and towards procurement based on total cost of ownership. Whatever procurement support you need, we have flexible options for you.
Specialist Support and Advice
You can access our self-serve customer framework agreement portal, featuring our user-friendly buying guides advising whether a direct award or further competition is required. Our specialist teams are also on hand to support you to procure best value for money products and services. This includes:
- Specialists who advise on which framework agreement best suits your needs
- Clinical advisors to support clinical engagement and ensure all procurements meet clinical standards
- Creation of bespoke data-led workplans to help deliver local and regional CIP challenges
- Delivery of strategic sourcing (including further competitions of aggregated volumes and switch to save projects) to unlock savings
- Support with contract implementation locally and regionally
Our framework agreements and value-added services are tailored specifically to the needs of NHS customers and their Integrated Care Systems, supporting them to drive maximum value and efficiency from their procurements.
Suppliers aren’t charged to appear on our framework agreements, but we do ask them for a nominal competitive fee should they successfully sell through one of our framework agreements. This fee is reinvested back into our service so we can keep delivering and developing new support services that enable the NHS to buy more easily and cost effectively.
Guidance regarding award of contracts under framework agreements, as per the Public Contract Regulations 2015:
- When the terms of a framework agreement are not precise enough to directly award a contract under Regulation 33(7) or 33(8)(a), the buyer must run a further competition, as per Regulation 33(8)(b) or 33(8)(c)
- When the terms of a framework agreement are precise enough to directly award a contract, the buyer must award the contract in accordance with any pre-prescribed rules (call-off protocol) regarding the use of catalogues, or reassessment of award criteria based on requirements configuration variations
- For further information about awarding contracts under our framework agreements please contact sbs.complianceandqualityassurance@nhs.net
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If you’d like to have a chat about using our framework agreements, please reach out to the relevant contact in your area from the list below.
If you’re a supplier interested in tendering for our framework agreements, please visit our Supplier Information Page.
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