News - Flexibility Matters
#CommercialMatters: Aligning with the national commercial strategy achieves best results for you
Our latest #CommercialMatters blog post comes from our Procurement Director, Steve Sercombe, who heads up a team of procurement experts who together have decades of experience working in procurement roles both within the NHS and commercial sectors. S ...
NOE CPC and NHS LPP’s ICT teams to exhibit at healthcare technology conference
The digital teams from North of England Commercial Procurement Collaborative (NOE CPC) and NHS London Procurement Partnership (NHS LPP) will be exhibiting together for the first time at this year’s Healthcare Excellence Through Technology confe ...
Improving the flexibility of your domestic services operations
In the fast-paced environment of healthcare, every second counts. Have you ever considered how a switch in your sanitary supplies could improve your team's efficiency? Flexibility in product solutions is key to tackling common challenges in healthca ...
#FlexibilityMatters: Our flexible Sustainability and Social Value (SSV) training offering
The NHS has committed to achieving net zero emissions by 2045. An essential part of reaching this goal involves combining sustainability into the procurement processes of contracting authorities, as scope 3 emissions are predicted to account for 62% ...
How we adapt and innovate to support our customers
As part of our #FlexibilityMatters theme for July, we are looking at some of the ways we have adapted and innovated over the years to ensure we remain an industry leading provider of frameworks for the public sector. In our latest blog post, we look ...
NOE CPC members can now access key NHS LPP frameworks
Our members can now use and benefit from a number of frameworks from NHS London Procurement Partnership (NHS LPP), expanding our portfolio even further. You can now access an even wider range of expertise, and more products, across our ICT and estat ...
Why flexibility is important and adaptability through the first year of the CMSP
This month we’re looking at why #FlexibilityMatters. To introduce this topic Jonathan Kaye, Associate Director of Procurement for Facilities and Office Solutions discusses why flexibility is important and what has been learned about adaptabilit ...
#FlexibilityMatters: Competitive flexible procedure under the Procurement Act 2023
Our theme for July is Flexibility Matters. As we move closer to the introduction of the Procurement Act 2023, we are focusing on the new competitive flexible procedure aspect of the regulations. The competitive flexible procedure is one of two new ...
#Flexibility Matters: Adapting to the needs of the changing NHS landscape
Offering our customers both choice and flexibility to best support their needs is a huge part of what we do. Adapting to the shifting landscape across the NHS means our teams have to be equally adaptable in their approach. Within Facilities and Offic ...
New framework: Specialist Estates Engineering & Maintenance Services (Hard FM) (NOE.0609)
We’ve recently launched a new Specialist Estates Engineering & Maintenance Services framework. This new framework is part of our expanding suite of FM, Property, and Business Services frameworks. It’s designed to make it easier f ...