Procurement

Our offer

Commissioning healthcare procurement services with NECS can offer a range of discounted support packages or bespoke offers on request.

• Extensive experience and knowledge of healthcare procurement with excellent understanding of the new Provider Selection Regime Regulations (PSR) to advise and support relevant authorities through commissioning and decision making.
• We deliver robust evaluation strategies designed to support your organisational needs and achieve best quality outcomes for services and patients.
• Access to tools, documents, and processes to support the audit requirements and transparency of PSR.
• Robust market analysis and landscape reporting tools specific to needs of the service to manage and evidence decision making aligned to the Most Suitable Provider Process.
• Experienced procurement leads to support competitive processes under PSR with robust systems, documents and tools compliant to requirements and evidence to defend representations.
• Support to produce the required annual audit requirements of these regulations.
• Access to NECS Contracting Platform (created by the NHS for the NHS) which supports the management of Regulation 20 and the 5 key criteria, with reporting options to evidence compliance and audit reporting.
• Bespoke commissioning options including focused market engagement, service reviews, contract management and financial modelling to support efficiencies and scope new and innovative services for patients.
• Management of conflicts of interest and robust record keeping in line with PSR requirements.
• Compliance check process for Regulation 20 provider questionnaires in line with Direct Award Process C, Most Suitable Provider and Competitive Process.
• Ensuring compliant with social value minimum 10% and targets to achieve Net Zero / Carbon Reduction as part of the contract award criteria.
• Access to the Market Engagement Decision Tool created by NECS to further support decision making related to external factors such as political regional or national drivers, demographic change, and influential impact to identify where there is a need for innovation in specific service areas.
• Options appraisal reporting to support decision making and risk analysis as part of a relevant authority’s commercial strategy.
• NECS healthcare procurement team holds a vast knowledge of lessons learned from national and regional experiences and share this with customers as part of continuous improvement processes.
• Webinars and training can be delivered to provide a general understanding of PSR or focus on specific areas, sharing and building on what we already have developed.