The Cyber Security Services 3 DPS offers a new, flexible way of purchasing services which gives buyers the opportunity to filter their requirements via a simplified procurement procedure to accommodate their business needs. Different from the Cyber Security Services 2, the DPS is versatile and allows suppliers to join at any time, increasing the range of […]
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Build a better future with CCS
The Construction Works and Associated Services agreement helps build things like new schools, hospitals, office buildings, universities, prisons, and houses as well as refurbish existing properties, undertake repairs and demolition, and decommission redundant assets. It is the first government-led construction agreement which can be used by the whole public sector and prevents public bodies having […]
NHS saves an average of 74% using new health network
The requirement The NHS, along with other health and social care organisations, needs to access and share information reliably, flexibly and efficiently in order to carry out frontline services effectively. Previously, the ability to do this was delivered through N3, a long standing single-supplier national broadband network which was expiring and no longer fit for […]
Health
Has GDPR increased your subject access requests?
What are subject access requests? Put simply a subject access request (SAR) is a request made by, or on behalf of, an individual to find out what personal data you hold about them, why you hold it and who you disclose it to. The right for individuals to make these requests is not new, however, […]
Technology solutions
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Workforce Alliance Looks to 2020
Managing Directors from NHS Procurement in Partnership and Helen MacCarthy, Health and Education Category Director, Crown Commercial Service, came together at the HCSA Conference in Harrogate to set out their vision for Workforce Alliance and the benefits it can provide to NHS Trusts. As the biggest public procurement partnership in the UK, Workforce Alliance brings […]
Workforce Support frameworks
Crown Commercial Service and NHS Procurement in Partnership are working together to deliver health workforce services under the banner of the Workforce Alliance. The collaboration is to ensure our customers have easy and quick access to a sustainable workforce and is part of a long-term plan to deliver a whole portfolio of health workforce services. The […]
Tackling modern slavery – what CCS is doing
UK government statement of commitment The government’s task force on modern slavery has endorsed a government-wide strategy to tackle this issue. The strategy has identified actions to ensure modern slavery is tackled in government supply chains through public procurement and has committed to publishing its own modern slavery statement in December 2019. What has CCS […]
New NHS Workforce procurement partnership
Two leaders in the public sector and NHS procurement join forces to deliver health workforce services Plans for this partnership are progressing well with three frameworks already launched under the new collaboration. International Recruitment This framework was the first to be launched to support the NHS and the public sector in its future recruitment strategies. […]