| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Data architect | £1,050.00 |
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Solution architect | £1,250.00 |
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Technical architect | £1,250.00 |
Commercial Nexus
NHS Catalogue Price Benchmarking, Contract Intelligence & Procurement Automation & AI
Commercial Nexus delivers NHS procurement intelligence across three areas: catalogue price benchmarking against NHSSC framework rates, contract lifecycle automation, and workforce cost analytics. Supporting NHS trusts and ICBs to identify savings, improve commercial control, and automate procurement workflows.
Features
- Integrates Microsoft Copilot with procurement workflows for intelligent automation
- Configures Power Platform tools to streamline procurement and contract management
- Delivers AI-driven insights on suppliers, contracts, and sourcing performance
- Provides real-time analytics dashboards using Power BI integration tools
- Automates contract renewal alerts, sourcing events, and approval workflows
- Consolidates data from contract and finance systems seamlessly.
- Data analysis and cleansing. Price-benchmarking against NHSSC Catalogue
- Provides PA23 compliance for NHS Trusts
- Includes configuration, pilot deployment, and optional scale-up roadmap
Benefits
- Saves significant time by automating sourcing, drafting, and review processes
- Simplifies daily operations and ensures faster, more consistent outcomes
- Improves negotiation outcomes through better supplier intelligence and visibility
- Enables data-led decision-making with instant, accurate procurement insights
- Reduces missed renewals and enhances governance and operational efficiency
- Offers unified visibility across multiple systems for greater transparency
- Supports financial planning and identifies savings opportunities early
- Boosts productivity by simplifying complex data analysis and reporting
- Automates document creation and queries from suppliers
Pricing
Service documents
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Framework
G-Cloud 15
Service ID
5 4 9 6 9 6 5 9 1 5 3 0 8 2 4
Contact
Commercial Nexus
Yasin Virani
Telephone: 07310 298 702
Email: yasin.virani@commercial-nexus.com
About the service
- Service categories
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Cloud Support Services
Set Up and Migration
- Data auditing and organising
- Data/information structure design
- Engagement and communication planning
- Other
Service scope
- Service constraints
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• Requires local stakeholder engagement before data access.
• Dependent on available and accurate procurement/contract/finance data.
• Excludes hosting or license resale - Client must hold Microsoft licenses.
• Limited to integration with systems that support API or data export.
• Data cleansing may be required before automation configuration.
• Microsoft Copilot configuration is provided only where the Client holds appropriate Microsoft licenses.
• Buyers must ensure appropriate licensing, access permissions, SME availability and data provision required to configure the service.
• Any new features, additional automation, or system integrations beyond the agreed scope will require separate commercial approval.
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- No
- Phone support
- Yes
- Phone support availability
- 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
- Web chat support
- No
- Support levels
-
Overview:
This service is delivered on a project-based, operational basis and does not include formal support levels.
Support is limited to clarification and delivery-related queries during the agreed engagement period. There is no ongoing technical support, managed service, or service-level agreement (SLA) associated with this service.
Costs:
All support required for delivery is included within the fixed-price or time-and-materials pricing set out in the pricing schedule. No additional support charges apply.
Technical Account Management:
A Technical Account Manager or Cloud Support Engineer is not provided as part of this service. Delivery is managed by the assigned Commercial Nexus consultant(s) for the duration of the engagement only.
Any ongoing support, optimisation, or managed service requirements are available under a separate Managed Service offering and require a separate Call-Off Contract.
Supplier type
- Supplier type
- Not a reseller
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Other security clearance
- Government security clearance
- Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS)
Pricing
- Discount for educational organisations
- No
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Data engineer | £1,050.00 |
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Business relationship manager | £1,050.00 |
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Business analyst | £900.00 |
Standards and certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001 certification
- No
- ISO 28000:2022 certification
- No
- ISO 9001 certification
- No
- Quality management systems (QMS)
- No
- CSA STAR certification
- No
- PCI certification
- No
- Cyber essentials
- Yes
- Cyber Essentials Certificate Number
- 3282486c-b66e-43c9-848c-c2da2fb378e3
- Cyber essentials plus
- No
- Cyber Essentials Alternative
- None of the criteria
- Other security certifications
- No
Social value
- Mission: Kick start economic growth
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To secure the highest sustained growth in the G7 - with good jobs and productivity growth in every part of the country making everyone, not just a few, better off.
Policy Outcome 1: Fair work: That offers fair wages and good working conditions. Help people get a job, stay in work, and progress in their careers, with good employment opportunities across the country. Notes: Where there is a large proportion of labour costs in the contract, commercial teams should consider MAC in Outcome 1 as a priority
- New or retained jobs on the contract workforce in the relevant area that meet the criteria set out in MAC 1b, 1c and 1d
- Providing opportunities for, and measuring and monitoring of, staff workforce conditions over time, including employee engagement, involvement in decision-making and satisfaction and adapting to any changes in the results, with clear processes for acting on issues identified
- Plans to engage the contract workforce in deciding the most important workplace issues to address
Policy Outcome 2: Skills for growth: Supporting growth sectors and addressing skills gaps.
- Understanding of employment and relevant skills issues, and of the education and training issues relating to the contract. Illustrative examples: demographics, skills shortages, new opportunities in high growth sectors, geographic/local community and skills/employment challenges
- Mission: Build an NHS fit for the future
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That is there when people need it; with fewer lives lost to the biggest killers; in a fairer Britain, where everyone lives well for longer.
Policy Outcome 8: Increasing productivity through physical and mental wellbeing: In the supply chain and communities in the relevant area.
- Understanding of issues relating to health and wellbeing, including physical and mental health, in the contract workforce
Service documents
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If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format,
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