Procurement Support Services

Delivering the Triple Aim duty of improving population health, quality and value will require new models of care that drive integration and provide sustainable health and social care. Integrated Care Systems, and their component organisations, will provide the vision and strategy required to transform local healthcare, while effective clinical and corporate procurement will play a pivotal role in delivering excellent services for patients and best value for taxpayers.

Arden & GEM provides a range of Procurement Support Services that can be delivered modularly or as an integrated procurement outsourcing solution. We provide expert procurement and market management advice and support across Integrated Care Systems (ICS), and regionally and nationally for NHS England. By combining the strength of procurement expertise across our large specialist team, we enable health systems to achieve their goals for integration, collaboration and efficiencies, whilst navigating the required regulatory frameworks. We also work collaboratively across all four Commissioning Support Units, providing the additional capacity required for larger initiatives.

Whatever your local, regional or national challenge, our specialist team can provide the expert guidance required to help you achieve your procurement objectives.

Our flexible Procurement Support Services provide easy access to the support you need, service elements can be bundled into a bespoke package that meets your exact individual requirements. Our services enable us to analyse markets and fully leverage commissioning and procurement decisions, through:

• Consultancy support offer based on our wide range of tools and established processes
• Market assessment to understand current market dynamics
• Evaluation of spend categories and strategy development
• Confirmation of baseline position for key categories and spend/category segmentation
• Advice and support in developing business cases, specifications and service models, commercial analysis and solutions
• Transactional spend analysis to reduce any audit or compliance risks
• Providing a workplan for all procurement liabilities and projects
• Development of strategy to identify the most appropriate market intervention approach
• Managing key priorities and associated market interventions
• Robust contract management solutions that hold providers and suppliers to account
• Collaborative contracting across those contracts spanning multiple areas or of lower value but high importance
• Delivering the Social Value Act and NHS commitment to net carbon zero
• Training and development to impart the knowledge and skills required to support local commissioning and procurement.