Department of Health and Social Care: Procurement

(asked on 14th April 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 20 March 2023 to Question 169238 on Department of Health and Social Care: Procurement, whether this includes cases where the jurisdiction in which the grave misconduct occurred included jurisdictions outside the UK.


Answered by
Will Quince Portrait
Will Quince
This question was answered on 9th May 2023

There is no record on the Department’s current procurement and contracts database, which holds information going back to June 2020, of bidders declaring they have been in receipt of enforcement or remedial orders in relation to grave professional misconduct. Information from the standard Selection Questionnaires bidders are required to complete prior to June 2020 is held on archived database systems, and retrieving this information would involve manual searches which would exceed the disproportionate cost threshold.

The question concerning grave professional misconduct appears on the standard Selection Questionnaire bidders are required to complete and is used for all procurement exercises above the relevant threshold, including where suppliers are based outside of the United Kingdom.

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