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Procurement and proposals
These pages provide information about purchasing and tenders within DH and the NHS, and also serve as a guide for submitting proposals; for research and development (R&D), and covers public private partnerships (PPP), whose two main areas are the private finance initiative (PFI) and NHS Local Improvement Finance Trust (LIFT).
About how procurement is organised within DH, including existing procurement guidance and links to the NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency and the Supplier Information Database.
Includes details of DH invitations to tender, as advertised within the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU), and supplementary information.
All calls from national DH and National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) programmes for research proposals will be posted here - including the Health Technology Assessment Programme (HTA), DH Policy Research Programme, New and Emerging Applications of Technology (NEAT), Service Delivery and Organisation (SDO) and Research Capacity Development (RCD).
PPPs are projects involving both the public and private sectors with varying levels of responsibility. The Government's private finance initiative (PFI) is one variant of a PPP, as is NHS LIFT. Details of both are found here.
The RouteMap provides investment guidance in two different formats – life-cycle of an investment and five-case model - together with an A to Z of guidance and links to other useful information.
The Department of Health is extending the use of the OGC Gateway Project Review Process (TM) to further support the delivery of the investment programme across the whole of the DH, its arms-length bodies and the NHS.
An innovative method of capital procurement for the NHS. ProCure21 uses a framework agreement to bring the NHS and Construction industry together to build publicly funded capital schemes. ProCure21 enables the NHS to cut upto a year of tendering time, while ensuring certainty on cost, time and quality. It promotes partnering, client education, design excellence, performance review and benchmarking.