Department for Health and Social Care: Protective Clothing

(asked on 16th November 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many companies hold procurement contracts for scrubs with his Department; and how many procurement contracts for scrubs his Department has put out to tender in the last 12 months.


Answered by
Edward Argar Portrait
Edward Argar
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 23rd November 2020

NHS Supply Chain, the main provider of consumables and equipment into the National Health Service, reports that the NHS Supply Chain Hotel Services Tower, which manages supply of scrubs, has not put any tenders out to the market in the last 12 months. The NHS Supply Chain Hotel Services Tower has an existing framework contract which enables NHS trusts to purchase scrubs compliantly from a proven source of supply. There are 14 suppliers on this Framework which supply scrubs to NHS trusts.

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