Procurement can be complex when commissioning healthcare services. NHS Midlands and Lancashires’s procurement team can help you navigate through this maze so that you can select a high quality supplier at a reasonable cost that will improve outcomes for patients, and at the same time, minimise the risk of complaints or legal challenge.

Our procurement team has extensive experience in procuring goods and services for our customers.

We deliver a comprehensive procurement service that ensures best value for money and compliance when buying goods and services.

We have a team of senior procurement managers and officers, who have years of experience and are all either members of the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (CIPS) or are training to be fully qualified.

Our staff can be an integral part of your commissioning project team and have a proactive approach to delivering the key objectives of the project.

What we do

• Professional advice to our customers on the best procurement routes to take to ensure compliance with procurement regulations and customer Standing Financial Instructions (SFIs)
• Advice on supply chain markets
• Raising and issue of electronic purchase orders to suppliers
• Resolution of complex purchase to pay issues
• Policing of customer SFIs in relation to procurement issues
• Carry out procurement exercises on behalf of our customers – tendering or mini-competitions against framework contracts
• Dedicated nominated contact points – email and telephone
• Professional help in relation accessing frameworks
• Strategic spend analysis and category management
• Contract management advice and software
• Full reporting service  – including agreed key performance indicators
• Collaboration opportunities to ensure value for money
• Proven savings reporting systems in line with NHS England reporting arrangements
• Monitoring and provision of procurement reports for audit committees
• Quotation service
• Catalogue loading and management
• Oracle systems expertise
• Implementation and experience of delivery of ePay
• Specialist support for supply chain issues.

Since 2019, our purchasing policies, processes, and procedures have been certified by The Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (CIPS) Procurement Excellence Standard.