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You can use the Catalogue to show view what’s on offer including a useful level of technical, service and pricing detail. You can use the information to better understand what’s available to you and plan your future procurement activity. You can access the services listed, all of them can be purchased with your own funds or funding you have secured from elsewhere, some services are supported currently by central contracts, in place during the COVID-19 epidemic to support rapid deployment of key capability to practices such as Video Conferencing.
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We are working to change the process for releasing this with you, which was set to be aligned to assisted assist Foundation procurement activity. We recognise that this may not be something you wish to undertake within the short to medium term, and therefore we are replanning our approach.
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We hope to bring more detail of a proposal for CCGs which addresses both a revised approach to procurement support and a revised timeline for allocation release, but for now we are targetting targeting the summer for releasing funds and enabling CCGs to place orders using allocated central budgets.
How Long Does A Procurement Take?
A direct award could conceiveably conceivably be completed within a day or less - following the process guidance and completing a simple Order Form it should be possible to have contracted for the Solution within a few hours. Future releases of the Catalogue will increasingly create a digital purchasing journey so that this can be undertaken as a straight through process on the Catalogue.
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The Further Competition Off-Catalogue process will take longer depending on the complexity of your needs and environment, but it is advised to schedule between 30 and 90 days.
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Clearly it would be unreasonable to expect CCGs to move through a reprocurement cycle for something so fundamental as their Foundation System under these the current conditions. We shall therefore set aside the previous plans for the large scale managed reprocurement cycle which saw us ensuring sought to ensure each CCG moved through reprocurement over about an 18 month period.
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