Conventional approaches to tendering and building NHS buildings have led in the past to poor practice, budget over-runs and disappointing results - a problem not evident in the attached commercial photography and architectural photography. The ProCure21 process aims to streamline the process, involving clinicians earlier to ensure that designs and building are fit for purpose and built on time and to budget.  Sheffield's Teaching Hospital NHS Trust gave approval of an outline business case for a new 36-bedded intensive care unit (ICU) and high dependency unit (HDU).

The Trust's estate department decided that the new unit should be developed and built using the Department

of Health’s ProCure21 strategy.  ProCure21 is a procurement method for publicly funded NHS capital schemes which aims to guard against the poor practice and results that have resulted from traditional tender procurement. The benefit of this strategy is that principle supply chain partners (PSCPs) and architectural photography have already competitively tendered for a place on a national framework. The NHS Trust wishing to build can then select a PSCP without the need to submit tenders to the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU), where all contracts from the public sector which are valued above a certain threshold must be published. As a consequence, trusts can make quicker progress with projects and commercial photography and architectural photography. In addition, with early contractor involvement, trusts have a greater degree of certainty at the outline business case stage of buildability, cost (a guaranteed maximum price is agreed by both parties at the outset) and programme.

ProCure21 is a partnering contract which promotes openness and fairness, provides a platform to develop longer-term relationships between trusts and PSCPs, and enables efficient and effective delivery of capital programmes.

Under traditional procurement strategies, projects are often fully designed and estimated with limited clinician input and

with little or no contractor involvement. This is where NHS building projects struggle, because the contractor is then

pricing a specification and making drawings without prior knowledge of the site and without a clear understanding of the

scheme content illustrated in the commercial photography and architectural photography. Typically, the lowest tender is selected and then, when clinicians get involved, changes are made to the project (often very necessary due to the over-simplified concept given at the time of tendering), and time and budgets slip, leading to over-runs. On a project of this size, the timesavings achieved using ProCure21 compared to traditional procurement methods are in the region of eight months, representing significant financial savings in design and development costs for a stunning development illustrated in this commercial photography and architectural photography.

This project shows the quality and variety of images that customers receive as part of our commercial photography and architectural photography service.  Call now to discuss your requirements and timescales on 079101 68536.