CHS Procurement are responsible for procuring all goods and services, (clinical and non-clinical) for Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust and Calderdale and Huddersfield Solutions Ltd. Procurement services are delivered in the form of:
- Category Management Team
- Operational Buying Team
- Materials Management Team
Procurement, Tenders and Contacts
Our aim is to provide procurement activity, contract compliance, guidance and advice to CHS and CHFT stakeholders to ensure value for money is achieved in line with Public Contract Regulations and Central Government and NHS guidelines.
All quotation / tender activity will be advertised through the Health Family e-Commerial platform – Atamis.
For all enquiries regarding procurement, tenders and contracts please email us at contractsandprocurement@cht.nhs.uk.
Contract Register
Category Management (Clinical, Non-Clinical, Reconfig)
Our procurement team is structured into 3 teams: Clinical, Non-Clinical and Reconfiguration. The category management approach allows us to focus our expertise and resources where they are needed most, ensuring we deliver value, compliance, innovation and social value across all areas of CHFT and CHS. This includes the procurement of high risk and high value tender and contracts, spend analysis, market analysis and performance management.
By managing these categories separately, we’re able to tailor our approach, build specialist knowledge, and respond more effectively to the unique challenges of each area. Across all categories, we prioritise collaboration, data-driven decision-making, and long-term supplier relationships to support the organisation’s strategic objectives. Our team collaborates closely with stakeholders across the Trust and CHS to understand their requirements and align procurement decisions with wider organisational priorities.
Clinical Procurement Team
What We Do
The Clinical Procurement Team is responsible for sourcing all goods and services that directly impact patient care. This includes medical equipment, clinical consumables, and specialist healthcare services. We work closely with clinical staff across the Trust to understand their needs and ensure that everything we procure meets high standards of safety, quality, and performance. Our goal is to support frontline services by providing reliable, cost-effective solutions that enhance patient outcomes.
To achieve this, we collaborate with suppliers, clinicians, and internal departments to ensure procurement decisions are well-informed and aligned with the Trust’s priorities.
Nick, Arun
Medicine
Acute Medicine
Emergency Care
Medical Specialties
Integrated Medical Specialties
Surgery & Anaesthetics
General and Specialist Surgery (Upper GI, Colorectal, Urology, Breast, Plastics)
Head and Neck (ENT, Ophthalmology, Maxillofacial)
Trauma and Orthopaedics
Theatres
Anaesthetics
Critical Care
Chronic Pain services
Paul, Nabeel
Community Healthcare
Bladder and Bowel Specialist Community Respiratory
Community Matron Cardiac Rehab and Heart Failure Calderdale District Nurses Children’s Community Pulmonary Rehab Tuberculosis Specialist Calderdale Immunisation
CHS
Maintenance, AOB
Families Specialist Services
Childrens
Outpatients and Records
Pathology
Pharmacy
Radiology
Women's
Zainab and Rachael will be supporting across when required.
Non-Clinical Procurement Team
What We Do
The Non-Clinical Procurement Team is responsible for sourcing goods, works, and a wide range of services on behalf of CHFT and CHS. We manage an average annual spend of approximately £55 million, ensuring that all procurement activities:
· Deliver value for money
· Comply with relevant procurement regulations
· Support the strategic and operational goals of the organisation
Our team develops and implements procurement strategies that go beyond financial efficiency. We actively promote:
· Sustainability – embedding environmentally responsible practices
· Innovation – encouraging new and improved solutions
· Resilience – ensuring robust supply chains and continuity of service
Through collaborative working and strategic sourcing, we help the Trust achieve its objectives while maintaining high standards of governance and accountability.
Areas covered:
· Estates
· Facilities
· Transport
· Catering
· Technology
· IT (Hardware & Software)
· Infrastructure
· Human Resources
· Workforce
· Research & Development
· Organisational Development
Reconfiguration Procurement Team
What We Do
The reconfiguration procurement team is responsible for the procurement and coordination of procurement and contracting activity across all reconfiguration projects. Working closely with both Clinical and Non-clinical procurement teams, CHFT clinical leads, reconfiguration transformation and partnership colleagues and CHS colleagues. The team also work collaboratively with the Trusts principal construction partner, Laing O’Rouke, to ensure specification and tender processes are fit for purpose and in line with Trust principles and expectations.
Existing projects include:
· CRH New clinical building
· CRH multi story car park
· Huddersfield Pharmacy Specials development (HPS)
· CRH facilities implementation
Contract Management and Social Value team
The Contract Management and Social Value team is responsible for overseeing the entire lifecycle of contracts. Their role is crucial in ensuring that all legal agreements with suppliers, vendors, service providers and other third parties are properly created, negotiated, executed, monitored and renewed or terminated as needed. In line with the public transparency agenda, all contracts are stored securely in the Atamis contract management solution and published on the CHS website as required. The team actively monitor and manage approximately 767 contracts per year on behalf of CHFT and CHS.
The contract management team, in collaboration with division and service colleagues, proactively manage and conduct contract reviews, monitoring compliance, service performance and key milestones throughout the duration of the contract. They are also the first point of call for contract escalations, providing contractual legal advice.
Sustainability and Social Value
Sustainability and Social Value are increasingly important factors in procurement decision making, from April 2022 social value is a requirement to evaluate against procurement opportunities. We build Sustainability and Social Value into our procurement activity, and contract and performance management to ensure our supply chain can support the CHFT Green Plan. Working collaboratively with suppliers and adopting environmentally responsible procurement practises to drive down emissions, reduce waste and align with our climate goals.
Systems Team
What We Do:
The Systems Team is the first point of contact for your i-Proc and customer service needs.
Via the procurement@cht.nhs.uk mailbox we manage the setup of new users and the amendment of existing users within i-proc, ensuring you are set up in the system with the correct information to allow you to place your orders smoothly. We manage the cost centres and associated budget holders within i-Proc to ensure your requisitions are submitted correctly for approval. We work to resolve any errors within the system, liaising with our service provider, NEP, where necessary. We support in the transfer of requisitions where budget holders are unavailable to approve to try ensure your requisitions can be actioned in a timely manner. We provide both ad hoc and Trust wide training as and when required as well creating a new suite of users guides which are available in the i-Proc guidance section below.
Via the buyingteam@cht.nhs.uk mailbox we provide support by contacting suppliers to request delivery dates, escalate requests for PO numbers and support with organising returns. We assist in the sourcing of your products and by connecting you with the correct members of our category teams to further assist you where necessary. We also manage the Amazon Business punchout to better support you with sourcing tail spend items and Softcat IT consumables.
The team also maintains the product catalogue data within the i-Proc system which you access via the Go Shopping app. We have over 40,000 items pre-loaded with the product and pricing information to enable you to place your orders as easily as possible. Over 90% of our clinical and general supplies orders are placed via a catalogue each month and due to our automation within the system these are sent directly to the supplier at the point your requisitions are approved which removes any delays and allows your items to be delivered and earliest opportunity.
We help to drive the departments digital strategy, looking to automate and streamline processes to ensure we are as efficient as possible and deliver the highest level of service to the Trust and CHS Ltd.
We are currently implementing robotics processes to help automate how we action invoice queries and have a roadmap of other robotic and AI based solutions to roll out over the coming months to assist with repetitive tasks which will allow the team to focus on more value added projects to improve Procurements service to our stakeholders.
Pipeline
Our Procurement Pipeline provides future potential procurement activity.
Please be aware that:
- All information reflects the procurement pipeline at the time of publication and is subject to change.
- There is no guarantee that published pipeline project will lead to a tender publication as we may decide not to proceed.
- Published values are for indicative purposes only
- We will fresh our procurement pipeline on a quarterly basis (the minimum requirement is annually)
- Our current opportunities are published on the Health Family Atamis Portal Welcome (force.com)
Meet the team
