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FOI 2886 Costs of procurement

The response to your query are detailed below:

 

  1. Please provide details of expenditure (or a reasonable estimate) on assessing and bidding for NHS tenders in 2011/12, 2012/13 and 2013/14 to date and an estimate of total expenditure for 2013/14.

 

Expenditure on assessing and bidding for NHS tenders 2011/12 2012/13 2013/14 to date 2013/14 estimate
Staff costs  100K  200K  300K  500K
External advice (including legal advice)  20K  30K  50K  75K
Expenses  0  0  0  0

 

Please note the Trust does not keep separate information with regard to this work, as normally it involves existing members of staff taking on additional responsibility as and when a tender opportunity arises. Therefore these figures are a best estimate of the costs involved.

 

  1. Please also state how many staff (FTE) currently work on NHS service tenders.  3FTE

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