From large scale national procurement programmes to bespoke local projects, we can support you at every stage of the procurement process, drawing on our cross-sector procurement expertise from across the health and social care system.
Our extensive procurement service includes: market assessment and management, healthcare procurement, contracts, transition and mobilisation management, outcomes based commissioning, new forms of contracting (prime contractor - alliance contracts), specialist procurement advice, training, education and consultancy.
We bring:
- Comprehensive strategic and transactional services, from pre-procurement advice through to contract award and mobilisation, using existing framework agreements or bespoke tenders.
- A procurement approach which supports cost-effective, patient-focused care and is delivered in line with EU Procurement regulations, statutory processes and Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention (QIPP) requirements.
- Experience of delivering a broad range of established and emerging contracts including Any Qualified Provider (AQP); outcomes-based commissioning (OBC); prime contractor – alliance contracts; as well as complex turnkey solutions.
- Detailed market analysis in partnership with our dedicated data analytics team.
- Risk management and mitigation expertise, combined with robust processes, to support the smooth running of every procurement.
- Access to our unique procurement library and strong network of stakeholders who are all committed to sharing knowledge and driving best practice across the system.
- An award-winning team with the skills and experience to provide specialist procurement advice, training and consultancy services.
Benefits:
From working with NHS England to source suppliers for large-scale programmes, to bespoke specialised services for individual CCGs, our team has a strong track record of working collaboratively with clients and potential suppliers to source sustainable solutions for our health and social care system.
Our approach ensures every brief is appropriately tested and refined so that the procurement process delivers the best and most cost effective solution.
“Our winners clearly demonstrated a really good use of procurement process, from soft market testing, right the way through to contract award. An excellent example of collaborative approach and all CSUs across the country should be informed of this fabulous work.”
HSJ Value in Healthcare Awards Judging Panel
RELEVANT READING
Find out more about our multi award-winning procurement services by accessing the resources below.
Finalists at the HCSA Awards 2020
Arden & GEM has been successfully shortlisted, with NHS England Highly Specialised Commissioning, in two categories at the Healthcare Supply Association (HCSA) Awards 2020.
Establishing urgent treatment centres in East Kent
When the four CCGs covering East Kent needed to procure urgent treatment centres to cover nine localities, Arden & GEM’s procurement team was tasked with delivering a complex and innovative procurement programme that would bring together a range of organisations in collaborative arrangements.
Arden & GEM and NHS England win at the CIPS Excellence in Procurement Awards 2020
Arden & GEM and NHS England win the ‘Best Collaborative Teamwork Project’ category at the CIPS Excellence in Procurement Awards 2020
Transforming the lives of babies with spina bifida through pioneering prenatal surgery
When NHS England Highly Specialised Commissioning sought to establish a service to provide pioneering prenatal surgery for foetuses with open spina bifida, a collaborative procurement project with NHS Arden & GEM CSU was initiated.
Arden & GEM named procurement team of the year for health at the UK National GO Awards 2020
NHS Arden & GEM CSU has been successful in the ‘Team of the Year – Health’ category at this year’s UK National GO Awards which recognise outstanding achievement and innovation in public procurement.
Embedding social value priorities in a complex community services procurement
With the existing contract coming to an end, NHS Nottingham CCG needed to re-procure out of hospital community services for local citizens. Arden & GEM successfully led this collaborative and complex procurement which put a commitment to social value at its heart.
Procurement team recognised by CIPS Excellence in Procurement Awards 2020
The Arden & GEM procurement team has been successfully shortlisted in three categories for the CIPS Excellence in
Procurement Awards 2020.
Arden & GEM successfully shortlisted at GO Public Procurement Awards
Arden & GEM is delighted to have been named as a finalist in two categories at the UK National GO Excellence in Public Procurement Awards 2020.
Using procurement to your advantage
Gavin Bennett, our Associate Director of Procurement for NHS England, discusses collaboration and market engagement and its role in delivering commissioning that is patient-centred, demonstrably good and is value for money in our latest blog for NHS Voices.
Using public procurement to improve specialised healthcare services
Neli Garbuzanova, Senior Procurement Manager at Arden & GEM, explains how early strategic use of procurement can benefit specialised commissioning in this latest article for Specialised Commissioning journal.
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