# NEP Partner Framework

> Tender notice from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust](/buyers/northumbria-healthcare-nhs-foundation-trust/contract-awards)
- Tender value: £2,000,000
- Published: 16 August 2021
- Planned start: 1 November 2021
- Planned end: 31 October 2025
- Stage: open_tender
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: cc39bb67-b362-4d72-b83a-009ee2ea977d-460914
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-babe44a1-cf9a-4e0d-9121-285eb5bd74de

## Description

NEP is a not-for-profit NHS Consortium that provides a centrally serviced, all-encompassing shared Finance and Procurement Cloud ERP system, that fully supports an ever-changing NHS National Agenda as well as incorporating Shared Service opportunities, NHS Procurement Strategy and Future Focus Finance Initiatives\. NEP is the largest Consortium within the English NHS, hosted by Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, and our Finance and Procurement Cloud solutions and services have been designed specifically for the NHS by the NHS\. NEP has a reputation for professionally delivering a Shared Financial and Procurement Solution to the NHS, currently utilising Oracle Cloud ERP, at a cost-effective price, with key stakeholders playing a part in its development and future road map\. NEP continues to be a success in the NHS bringing to the forefront of having the NHS delivering a 21st Century Solution with NHS Staff since it evolved in 2002\. NEP have built up a considerable relationship with all Partners and software suppliers who support and understand the importance of its ethos of using technology and allowing those savings to be released directly back into front line care\. It should be understood that NEP is governed under specific Consortium governance, that understands, supports and advocates the importance of collaboration and the advantages that can be derived through economies of scale, made by utilising the use of Partners in supporting the Consortium in standardisation across the NEP Consortium Organisations\. There are the following lots will be included: - Lot 1 - Consultancy and Business Development Services Lot 2 - Training and People Development Services Lot 3 - Technical Implementation and Operational Supports Lot 4 - Project and Programme Management Lot 5 - Business Process, Solution Optimisation and Additional Services Lot 6 - Reporting Development Lot 7 - Specialist Professional services \(including Audit and Quality Assurance\)

## Related contract awards

- [NH2672 Perception Research](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-ab938007-c412-4177-bdf7-99986d961aa8): NORTHUMBRIA HEALTHCARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST
- [Siemens Somatom X\.ceed CT Scanner](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-d2b4b82d-1910-449d-a871-14333a84496b): Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- [NH2654 F5 BIG IP](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-be5ad0ac-1217-4d6b-b34a-e0de687f744f): NORTHUMBRIA HEALTHCARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST

## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/cc39bb67-b362-4d72-b83a-009ee2ea977d-460914)