Final project of contract and procurement

• A procurement plan for hospital development.
• A list of at least four procurement issues procurement managers face in the NHS.
• A strategy to handle procurement for a UK hospital on the basis of the following case study:
  
  
• • United Kingdom Homecare Association Ltd. (2009) Procurement challenge case study [Online]. Available from: http://www.ukhca.co.uk/pdfs/challengingtenderscasestudies.pdf (Accessed: 7 July 2010). 

Each of these will form a separate section of the Final Project.

Project Background: You will complete a project based on the National Health Service (NHS) of the UK . One of the original goals put forth in The NHS Plan: A Plan for Investment, a Plan for Reform was to build more than 100 new hospitals.

You are the project manager for building Southmead Acute Hospital and are responsible for procuring goods and services needed to complete the project. The specifications for the hospital are provided in the following document:

• North Bristol NHS Trust (n.d.) Integrated community hospital specification. Link to PDF