Procurement Team
The Centre works in partnership with a procurement firm to provide vendor neutral managed service contracts, working in partnership to deliver the Centre strategy, through hospital and supply chain efficiencies. The firm generates operational and financial savings and reduces administrative and transaction burden. This arrangement has been in place since 2017.
Under the terms of the procurement contract, the firm provide:
- on-site team of 7 staff whose roles are to support the inventory management, procurement, and contract management within the centre;
- inventory control system, which provides ordering in-line with agreed stock levels, Scan4Safety compliancy and procedure level/p2p level costing;
- end-to-end procurement, including catalogue management;
- management of the sterilisation contract and associated administration;
- stock management;
- review of the next days’ lists and Consultant preference cards to ensure that the correct stock is in theatre for operations;
- third party contract management and management of all outsourced contracts with suppliers and service providers, such as sterilisation, prosthetic and linen providers;
- co-ordination with suppliers for servicing;
- procurement savings and efficiencies within the Centre;
- remote management;
- procurement;
- customer care;
- data analysis;
- accounts;
- contracting; and
- IT support.