Procurement

Under the Freedom of Information act 2000, I would like to request the following information;

1.The Name , Job Title and email address of the Head of Procurement ( or equivalent senior procurement lead ) at Your Trust.

2. If available the names , Job Titles and email addresses of any procurement category managers responsible for Capital Equipment.

If direct email addresses cannot be released , please provide the generic procurement contact email for supplier enquires.

I would prefer the information in electronic format Excel or email.

Thank you for your time. I look forward to your response within the statutory 20 working days

I am writing under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information:
A list of all technology-related contracts currently held by the Trust with companies headquartered in the United States, where the contract value exceeds £25,000 per annum.
For each relevant contract, please provide:
• Name of the company
• Description of the product or service.

I am writing to make a formal request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 for information regarding your organisation’s procurement activities and current contracts.

Information Requested:

1. Current Procurement Opportunities
• Details of any ongoing procurement exercises or tenders currently open or planned to commence within the next 12 months
• Estimated contract values and duration
• Key procurement contact details
2. Existing Contract Information
• List of major contracts (over £50,000 annual value) due for renewal or review in the next 24 months
• Contract end dates and review periods
• Primary contract categories
Scope: Please provide information covering the period from [current date] to [24 months forward];

I am writing to request the following information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 regarding your Trust’s use of Master Vendor and/or Neutral Vendor staffing arrangements:
Master Vendor Service
1. Does your Trust have a Master Vendor service in place?
2. If yes, which agency provides this service?
3. What technology platform is used to manage this service?
4. What is the end date of the current agreement/contract?
5. What cost (if any) is incurred by the Trust for this service?
6. Which staffing groups are covered under the Master Vendor service?
7. What is the average fill rate achieved under this service over the past 12 months?

Neutral Vendor Service
1. Does your Trust have a Neutral Vendor service in place?
2. If yes, which agency provides this service?
3. What technology platform is used to manage this service?
4. What is the end date of the current agreement/contract?
5. What cost (if any) is incurred by the Trust for this service?
6. Which staffing groups are covered under the Neutral Vendor service?
7. What is the average fill rate achieved under this service over the past 12 months?

We would be most grateful if you could provide us, under the Freedom of Information Act, with some information regarding current Digital/Smart Buildings Platform, Fire Alarms , Fire Suppression, Access Controls, Intruder Alarms, CCTV, HVAC (Heating Ventilation Air Conditioning), BMS (Building Management System) and Care Comms/Nurse Call.(Care Communications).
The details we require are:
– Hardware Brand: The primary hardware brand of the organisation’s:
a. Digital/Smart Buildings Platform
b. Fire Alarms
c. Fire Suppression
d. Access Control
e. Intruder Alarms
f. CCTV
g. HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning ) h. BMS ( Building Management Systems ) i. Care Comms / Nurse Call

– Existing Supplier: If there is more than one supplier, please split each contract up individually.
– Contract Type: What is included in the current contracts with these suppliers? Comprehensive, Semi Comprehensive including call outs, Basic Service Only.
– Contract duration, end date and review date of the current contracts with these suppliers.
– On average, what is the annual spend on each of these systems for the Trust?
– Contact Detail: Of the person from with the organisation responsible for each contract with details including full name, job title, direct contact number and direct email address.
– If the contract is a managed by an outside Facility Management Company, please can you provide all the relevant details with including the contact details of the responsible person from the FM (Facilities Management) Company.

Under the Freedom of Information Act, I am writing to request information about adult mental health services in High Secure Units (HSUs), Medium Secure Units (MSUs), Low Secure Units (LSUs) and Psychiatric Intensive Care Units (PICUs) – specifically where these services fall under adult mental health commissioning (excluding learning disability or other non-mental health pathways).
From what I have read, services may be commissioned under a combination of spot contracts, out-of-area (OOA) placements, and block contracts, depending on the service type and provider. I am seeking to better understand the structure of commissioning and the associated payment flows.
Please provide the information separately for the financial years 2024/25 and 2025/26 Year to Date (YTD) for the following:
1. Spot Contracts (excluding OOA)
• Total income (in £) on spot-priced adult mental health patients
• Total number of adult mental health bed days commissioned
• Average fee (in £) per bed day
2. OOA Contracts
• Total income (in £) on out-of-area adult mental health patients
• Total number of adult mental health bed days commissioned
• Average fee (in £) per bed day
3. Block Contracts
• Total value (in £) of the block contract obtained for adult mental health services
• Total adult mental health bed days commissioned under the block by type (HSUs, MSUs, LSUs, PICUs)
• Average fee (in £) per bed day under the block
4. If breakdown by 1, 2, 3 not available
• Please provide aggregate figures for adult mental health services only:
a) Total cost (in £) of delivering care for adults for each service type
b) Total number of adult bed days delivered for each service type
c) Average cost (in £) per occupied bed day (or per week) for adults for each service type
Please fill out your responses in the attached Excel spreadsheet and return the completed file via email reply.

Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I am requesting the following information regarding your Therapy and Community Rehabilitation services, including Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Speech and Language Therapy, and Dietetics:

Are any of these services currently delivered by external providers through:

Insourcing
Outsourcing
Subcontracting
For each external provider currently engaged, please provide:

Name of the provider
Type of engagement (insourced, outsourced, subcontracted)
Service(s) provided
Contract start date
Contract end date or review date
Annual contract value or total spend to date Volume of activity delivered (e.g. number of patients seen, sessions delivered, or hours worked) Performance metrics or KPIs, if available Was the contract awarded via a framework or open tender? If so, please specify which framework (e.g. NHS SBS, HealthTrust Europe, etc.).

Who is the internal lead responsible for managing these contracts? Please provide their job title and department.

Who do the external providers report into operationally within your organisation? (e.g. Clinical Lead, Service Manager)

Are there any current or upcoming plans to procure additional external support for these services in the next 12 months?

Have you experienced any challenges in meeting waiting time targets or service demand in these areas over the past 12 months?

I am writing to submit a Freedom of Information (FOIA) request under the 20-day response requirement, to inquire whether your organisation intends to come to market for bank or agency management services in the next 12 months. Specifically, I would appreciate information on:
1. Whether the trust plans to tender for these services in the near future.
2. The scope of services expected to be included in the upcoming tender.
3. The key point of contact within the trust responsible for this area.

I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act regarding your Trust’s use of Insourcing to support service delivery and reduce waiting lists.

Please could you provide responses to the following:

1. Do you currently use Insourcing providers to support delivery of clinical services and reduce patient waiting lists?
(Yes/No)
2. If yes, please provide the names of all Insourcing providers used by your Trust over the last 12 months.
3. For each provider listed above, please confirm:
o The specialties in which they have delivered services
o The total spend with each provider (for the most recent 12-month period available)
4. What specialties within your Trust currently use Insourcing providers?
5. What procurement route(s) did you use to award Insourcing contracts?
(e.g. NHS SBS, HealthTrust Europe, local procurement, etc.)
6. Are these contracts part of a framework or spot-purchased?
(Please specify for each provider if possible.)
7. What is the duration of the current Insourcing contracts?
(Start and end dates, and whether there are extension options.)

This is a freedom of information request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Please provide the following information you have pertaining to NHS insourcing within your Trust / Health Board.
1. Do you use insourcing providers?
2. If yes to the previous question (use of insourcing providers) what is the total value of spend, listed by speciality and insourcing provider, used for Apr-24-Mar-25?
Note: if an insourcing provider covers multiple specialties, please list that provider multiple times (one row for each specialty)
3. Please list below contracts with insourcing providers in the current financial year April 2025 – March 2026

I would be grateful if you could help in answering our request for information regarding any current office print procurement contracts your organisation may hold.

1. Do you have a print contract for your general office printers or multi-functional devices (MFDs), if so, please provide the name of the contract provider?
2. Please confirm the start and end date of each contract named in question 1.
3. Please confirm the end date of any extension periods for each contract named in question 1.
4. When do you intend to start re-tendering for each contract named in question 1.
5. How many printers and MFDs are deployed across your organisation?
6. What is your annual output (print and copy) volume (mono and colour) and spend?
7. Who is the person(s) within your organisation responsible for these contract(s)? please provide their role/title and contact details?

I am conducting a research project into how public sector organisations procure cyber security services and enterprise software platforms. As part of this, I would be grateful if you could provide the most recent contract information you hold for the following areas:
1. Standard Firewall (Network)
Firewall services that protect the organisation’s network from unauthorised access and other internet security threats.
2. Anti-virus Software Application
Programs designed to prevent, detect, and remove viruses, malware, trojans, adware, and related threats.
3. Microsoft Enterprise Agreement
A volume licensing agreement that may include:
• Microsoft 365 (Office, Exchange, SharePoint, Teams)

• Windows Enterprise

• Enterprise Mobility + Security (EMS)

• Azure services (committed or pay-as-you-go)

4. Microsoft Power BI
Or any alternative business intelligence platform used for data connectivity, dashboards, and reporting.
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For each of the above areas, I kindly request the following:
1. Who is the existing supplier for this contract?

2. What is the annual spend for each contract?

3. What is the description of the services provided?

4. Primary brand (where applicable)

5. What is the start date of the contract?

6. What is the expiry date of the contract?

7. What is the total duration of the contract?

8. Who is the responsible contract officer?
 • Please include at least their job title, and where possible, name, contact number, and direct email address

9. How many licences or users are included (where applicable)?

Could you please advise of the following in terms of your Trust:

1. Is your Procurement Function in- house or outsourced?
2. How many people FTE work in your Procurement Dept including roles and bands?
3. What is the cost of your Procurement Function?
4. What is the scope of activity your Procurement Function delivers? Does this specifically include: Operational Procurement ie: transactional activity raising requisitions/ orders, Strategic Procurement ie: Category Management, tendering etc, Contract Management, general advice and guidance?

I would like to make a Freedom of Information request.

I am doing a research project investigating call-off contracts in the public sector. I have identified several potential call-off contracts awarded by Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust, but I can’t find details of the framework agreements they were awarded from.

I have attached an Excel file that contains the information I am looking at. The last two columns (“Title of framework used” and “Further framework info”) is where I am missing information. Please could you provide the name of the specific framework agreements or DPS agreements used here. If there is any further info which you think would help me locate the framework agreements (e.g., a link to the framework’s Contract Finder or FTS listing, the framework provider, or a widely-used reference number such as CCS’s RM codes), please use the final column for this.

Please note that I have identified these contracts as possible call-off contracts, so some of them might not be. Some could be, for instance, procured directly (without being called off from a framework agreement), or could be themselves notices of the establishment of a framework agreement. Therefore I would kindly ask you to specify in these incidences what kind of procurement was used in the “Title of framework used” column.

I have provided the title, description, the publication date, and procedure type used to award each potential call-off, as well as a URL link to the call-off in question and a unique reference ID for each potential call-off. Please let me know if there is anything else you need to complete the request.

If you do not feel like this request could be completed in good time, please could you work down the list and do as much of a subset as you can?

This is in relation to the use of social value weighting of 10 per cent in your procurement of goods and services, which has been mandated by government for NHS Trusts and Foundation Trusts since April 2022.
Please send me:
1. What methods do you use to measure social value from your procurements? Please include any additional measurement methods you use (e.g. TOMs) as well as the NHS Social Value Model.
2. What is the total social value accrued by your procurement activities each year from April 2022, according to how you measure and report this at a corporate level? If possible, can you provide any explanatory notes to explain how you have measured this?
3. Do you use financial proxies to monetise the measurement of social value, such as social local economic value? If so:
1. a. Please specify the method or measure you use to monetise the measurement of social value
1. b. Please provide the total number of contracts to which you applied this financial proxy each financial year since April 2022
1. c. Please provide the total value of those contracts
1. d. Please provide the total monetized social value of those contracts
1. e. Please provide the total value of all contracts let during that same period
4. How much in total have you spent in procurement on local business/organisations, each financial year, since April 2022? Please including your definition of a local business/organisation, if you have one.
5. How much have you spent on SMEs each FY since April 2022? The government defines an SME as a company with fewer than 250 employees, turnover under €50m and balance sheet under €43. If the trust has a different definition then please provide it.
6. How much have you spent on VCSEs each FY since April 2022? Again, please include your definition of a VCSE if you have one.