Highlights
- Endorsed by NHS England as a compliant route to market
- Capped pricing during the initial two years of framework agreement period
- NHS England approved NHS Standard Specifications, providing future proofing from expensive waste, ensuring participating approved organisations purchase the right model at the right cost
- Participating approved organisations can take advantage of specific preferential pricing. Further competition procurements can be undertaken in certain circumstances to test the market for additional discounts and to obtain best value for money where approved organisations can offer a collaborative aggregated commitment on spend
- 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
- A portfolio of products across the lots, approved organisations have the flexibility to change suppliers and products with no minimum volume or commitment period
- Sustainable products with demonstrable environmental benefits can be obtained throughout all available lots
- Approved organisations can share standard specifications and/or build on these specifications by collaboratively purchasing as a consortium
- Supplier commitment to minimum product lifecycles and notification period for planned product demise and introduction of new products
- Standard specifications which have been reviewed and approved by a selection of our approved organisation customer base, OEM vendors, enterprise software providers and NHS England; providing assurance to participating approved organisations
- Agreed fixed minimum discounts on non-core basket products
Why this framework matters to you
This is a free to access framework for the NHS and wider public sector and covers all end user device requirements you could need including desktop PCs, laptops, tablet devices, printers, refurbished devices and specialist healthcare-related IT hardware such as laptop carts and clinical displays.
Utilising either direct award or a further competition, this framework provides NHS trusts and other public sector authorities with a free to access, compliant, cost effective and easy to use framework that covers all end user device requirements including desktop PCs, laptops, tablet devices, printers, refurbished devices and specialist healthcare-related IT hardware such as laptop carts and clinical displays; while keeping their IT spend within the NHS.