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IT Hardware and Services (LINK3) (Ref: 2020/S 182-440755)

Background

Provides trusts and other public sector authorities with a compliant, cost effective and easy to use framework to procure competitively priced and appropriately specified IT Hardware products, services and equipment including PC's, laptops, table devices, printers and specialist healthcare-related IT Hardware such as laptop carts and clinical displays.

Benefits

  • Endorsed by NHS England as a recommended route to market for NHS buyers.
  • Capped pricing is offered on a core basket of devices which meet approved NHS standard specifications across all Lots
  • Supplier commitment to minimum product life cycles and notification period for planned product demise & introduction of new products
  • Sustainable products with demonstrable environmental benefits can be obtained throughout all available Lots
  • Suitable testing of the market that provides robust value-for-money assessed suppliers, which comply with latest guidance and regulations for the purchase of hardware products and services
  • Flexibility to change suppliers and products with no minimum volume or commitment period

Start date

01/03/2021

End date

27/02/2025

Contract type

Framework Agreement

Framework owner

NHS North of England Commercial Procurement Collaborative

ABI

ABI 0.6%

Lots

Lot 1: Desktop PCs

Lot 2: Laptop/Notebook devices

Lot 3: Mobile Devices (tablets, mobile phones and wearables)

Lot 4: Specialist Healthcare-related IT Hardware

4a – PC/Laptop carts and peripherals

4b – Clinical displays and peripherals

Lot 5: Printers/Scanners

Lot 6: One Stop Shop

List of suppliers and awarded lots

  • Academia (Lots 3)
  • Bytes Software (Lots 3, 5 and 6)
  • CCS Media (Lot 5)
  • CDW Ltd (Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6)
  • Computacenter (UK) Ltd (Lot 1)
  • Dell Corporation Ltd (Lots 1, 2, 4, and 6)
  • Desk Top Publishing Micro Systems Ltd (Lot 5)
  • Getech Ltd (Lots 1, 2, 3, and 6)
  • IDNS (Lots 2 and 3)
  • Insight Direct (Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6)
  • Insight Systems (Lot 5)
  • MTI Technology (Lot 5)
  • Parity Medical (Lot 4)
  • Punch Technology (Lot 1)
  • Ricoh (Lot 2 and 5)
  • Softcat (Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6)
  • Specialist Computer Centres (SCC) (Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6)
  • Stone Computers (Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6)
  • XMA (Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6)

Contact name

Hanna Chipchase

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