U.K: Government to roll out £5m pan-NHS procurement platform over next three years

31 Aug 19: The department has published a contract notice seeking a software supplier that can provide a “single eCommercial system” for use across the DHSC and its national arm’s-length bodies and owned companies. This includes NHS England, NHS Improvement, NHS Digital, and NHS Property Services as well as the Care Quality Commission, and the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency. Once the system is live, it will also be open for use by all individual NHS trusts and any other organizations that are part of the government “healthy family”.