Friday 20 March 2026
Internal Reference Number: FOI_9277
Date Request Received: 10/03/2026 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 12/03/2026 00:00:00
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Request Summary: Procurement questions
Request Category: Private Individuals
| Question Number 1: Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, please could I request the following information: Procurement Outsourcing Does your organisation outsource its transactional procurement function? If yes, please provide: The name of the outsourced service provider The name of the outsourced platform or product The contract duration (in years) The contract end date Please see attached | |
| Answer To Question 1: No aspect of the transactional procurement function is currently outsourced. To accompany this answer to question 1 please also see the documents listed below:  FOI 9277 Q1.docx | |
| Question Number 2: Other procurement support Does your organisation use a third party to deliver end‑to‑end procurement services (e.g., market insight, tendering, business cases)? If yes, please name the provider | |
| Answer To Question 2: The Trust has used third party providers to support with aspects of the procurement service (i.e., tendering), but there is no history of full end-to-end processes being outsourced to third parties. | |
| Question Number 3: Net Zero Strategy Does your organisation work with a third party supplier on its NHS Net Zero Strategy? If yes, please provide the supplier’s name. | |
| Answer To Question 3: Not for our net zero strategy, for parts of green plan e.g. estates net zero and adaptation we have used external consultants to support, but not for our overall net zero. | |
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