David Holbrook, senior class supervisor – digital workforce & IT transformation at NHS Shared Enterprise Companies (Credit score: NHS SBS)
NHS Shared Enterprise Companies (NHS SBS) has launched its Digital Office Options 2 framework settlement price £2.5bn.
The framework settlement offers a path to NHS and wider public sector organisations to supply and procure IT infrastructure options from pre-approved suppliers.
It offers consumers with entry to options corresponding to on-premise community infrastructure, servers/storage, industrial off-the-shelf software program licences, bespoke software program licensing and end-user units.
David Holbrook, senior class supervisor, digital workforce and IT transformation at NHS SBS, stated: “Fixing digital foundations begins with refreshing and securing core infrastructure, from information centres to networking tools.
“That’s central to what this framework settlement allows.”
The framework is meant to assist the federal government’s ambition to overtake growing older legacy infrastructure throughout the NHS and wider public sector.
It runs from 1 October 2025 till 30 September 2028, with an choice to increase for as much as 12 months.
The demand for safe, scalable infrastructure is about to rise additional with initiatives like NHS On-line, the UK’s first digital hospital, which is predicted to launch by 2027.
“As we transfer into an period dominated by AI and Web of Issues (IoT), legacy techniques merely don’t have the processing energy or information dealing with capabilities to assist them.
“Unsupported, infrastructure doesn’t simply hinder transformation, it introduces important safety dangers.
“Our Digital Office Options framework settlement in itself doesn’t ship modern know-how.
“Nonetheless, it provides NHS and wider public sector organisations entry to the core merchandise and instruments that make innovation occur,” Holbrook added.
NHS SBS printed the contract discover for the framework on 19 September 2024 and stated that as much as 30 of the highest-scoring suppliers can be awarded offers.
The companies confirmed to have a spot on the framework, embody Softcat Plc, Atos IT Companies UK Restricted, Dell Company Restricted, Hewlett Packard Restricted, Community Planning Options Ltd, Xerox Ltd, and MTI Expertise Ltd.
The framework has been expanded by £1bn since August 2023, when NHS SBS started market engagement with suppliers and printed a previous info discover which said that the utmost worth can be £1.5bn over 4 years.
It follows the earlier Digital Office Options framework settlement which started in August 2020 earlier than expiring in August 2025.
In April 2025, NHS SBS launched a framework settlement, in partnership with North of England Business Procurement Collaborative, price £1.5bn to improve outdated IT techniques within the NHS.
The ‘Tech Gadgets – Hyperlink 4’ framework, geared toward streamlining procurement, to allow groups to purchase the most recent important end-user {hardware} and units from suppliers, runs from 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2028, with the choice to increase to 31 March 2029.
