NEC SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS UK LIMITED

NEC Rego

NEC Rego is a cloud-based referral management platform built around intelligent clinical pathways that guide clinicians to make the right referral decision, first time. It reduces inappropriate referrals, improves patient flow, and provides a single view of all referrals. Rego integrates with NHS e-RS or offers standalone digital referral functionality

Features

• Pathway-Driven Referral Optimisation:Guides clinician using pathways for accurate referral decisions
• Unified Referral Management:Combines all referrals into one system for visibility.
• Dual Capability: Works with e-RS or provides standalone referral functionality.
• Real-Time Dashboards: Tracks referrals and outpatient activity to identify bottlenecks
• Configurable Workflows: Adapts easily to specialty needs and organisational changes.
• Interoperability: Integrates with NHS Spine and other national systems.
• Secure and Compliant: Meets NHS security standards and GDPR requirements.
• Specialty Configuration: Configures quickly to meet hospital specialty requirements
• Editable Pathways: Modify pathways anytime, no release required

Benefits

• Improved Efficiency: Removes manual processes, reducing admin workload and costs.
• Better Demand Management:Provides insights to manage capacity and waiting times.
• Enhanced Patient Outcomes:Patients receive appropriate care at the right time
• Scalable and Flexible:Supports organisational changes with minimal disruption or cost
• Allows consultants to focus on clinical expertise, not admin tasks.
• Reduced Inappropriate Referrals: Optimises pathways to minimise unnecessary appointments.
• Real-Time Visibility: Enables instant tracking of referral activity and performance
• Cost Savings: Streamlines processes to reduce operational and administrative expenses.

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

Request an accessible format

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at psbidmgmt@necsws.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.

Framework

G-Cloud 15

Service ID

282623394401515

Contact

NEC Frameworks Team
07852 936231
psbidmgmt@necsws.com

About the service

• Service categories:
  • Applications
    • Production and operations
      • Service industry and public sector operations
        • Healthcare
• Multi cloud support: No

Service scope

• Software add-on or extension: No
• Cloud deployment model: Hybrid cloud
• Service constraints: System requirements vary by configuration and selected modules. For example, e-RS integration requires a Windows PC running the latest version of Microsoft Edge due to NHS Identity and browser compatibility. For organisations not using e-RS, any modern PC or Mac with the latest version of Chrome or Edge is sufficient. Additional dependencies, such as smartcard authentication or CIS2, may apply based on local setup.
• System requirements: Access to the service must be through industry standard browsers

User support

• Email or online ticketing support: Yes
• Support response times: We aim to respond to all support queries promptly. Email and online ticketing requests are typically acknowledged within one hour during business hours (09:00–17:30, Monday to Friday, UK time). Outside business hours, responses will be handled on the next working day. Users can manage ticket status and priority through our online portal, which meets WCAG 2.1 A accessibility standards. Phone support is also available during business hours. All user support is included within the service charge. Onsite support may be arranged if required, subject to agreement and additional cost.
• User can manage status and priority of support tickets: Yes
• Online ticketing support accessibility: None or don’t know
• Phone support: Yes
• Phone support availability: 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
• Web chat support: No
• Onsite support: No
• Support levels: Our helpdesk provides tiered support across primary care, community, and hospital settings, ensuring trusted local relationships. First-line support is available weekdays from 8am–6pm via phone and email, with 24/7 query logging. Our Rego subject matter experts deliver rapid troubleshooting and setup assistance, tracking all queries in our CRM software with ticket numbers and resolution times. Where issues require deeper investigation, robust escalation processes route cases to second-line technical specialists and, if necessary, third-line engineering teams for complex fixes.; In the event of a major incident, NEC’s dedicated team activates a 24-hour response process. Suspected service disruptions are escalated to the Service Delivery Manager for confirmation, with automatic communications sent to nominated contacts and a full incident report issued within two working days.; Support is included within the service fee, with scalable capacity available to meet demand. Enhanced SLAs or out-of-hours options can be provided at additional cost. A Service Delivery Manager is assigned as standard. Regular performance reports, shared learning from other regions, and proactive user engagement ensure continuous improvement and added value.
• Support available to third parties: Yes

Onboarding and offboarding

• Getting started: User details are provided along with training guides/material.
• Service documentation: Yes
• Documentation formats:
  • HTML
  • ODF
  • PDF
• Documentation accessibility standard: WCAG 2.2 AA
• End-of-contract data extraction: The Supplier will support the migration of data (including all Authority Personal Data) to any replacement system at an additional reasonable cost to the Authority or any replacement Supplier. The Supplier will provide such data in an industry standard format.; ; The timetable for data migration will be agreed by the Supplier and the Authority. The Authority will give the Supplier a minimum of 3 months’ notice of delivery of a data migration download.; ; Should the Authority wish the Supplier to provide more than one download then the Supplier will be entitled to recover its additional reasonable costs from the Authority.; ; The Authority must check and is responsible for ensuring that the data provided by the Supplier is complete and without error prior to issuing it to its replacement service provider.
• End-of-contract process: The Supplier and the Authority will meet the obligations stated in the Contract in the event of termination or expiry of the Contract relating to such expiry or termination.; ; The Supplier will render reasonable assistance to the Authority and its replacement Supplier, if requested, to the extent necessary to effect an orderly assumption by a replacement Supplier of services similar to the Managed Services performed previously by the Supplier. The Supplier will charge reasonable rates for time and materials in relation to this work.; ; On termination of the Managed Services in part the obligations under this Schedule will be construed mutatis mutandis. Any associated costs with end of contract activities will be based on the NEC Rate Card.

Using the service

• Web browser interface: Yes
• Supported browsers:
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Chrome
• Application to install: No
• Designed for use on mobile devices: Yes
• Differences between the mobile and desktop service: Resolution may be affected when accessing via mobile.
• Service interface: Yes
• Description of service interface: NEC Rego provides a secure, web-based interface accessible via modern browsers (Chrome or Edge). Users can manage referrals, view dashboards, and configure workflows through the main portal. An admin portal is available for managing user accounts and permissions. APIs are provided for integration with NHS systems, including e-RS and Spine.
• Accessibility standards: None or don’t know
• Description of accessibility: The current interface follows general usability best practices, including clear navigation and responsive design. While formal accessibility compliance has not yet been achieved, NEC is committed to meeting WCAG 2.2 AA standards. This is part of our product roadmap, and future releases will include enhanced support
• Accessibility testing: Formal testing with assistive technology users has not yet been conducted. NEC recognises the importance of accessibility and has prioritised this in our development roadmap.
• User support accessibility: WCAG 2.2 AA
• API: Yes
• What users can and can't do using the API: Each site is issued a unique API key once integration is complete. Through the API, users can create referrals programmatically. The API does not allow users to configure the system, manage users, these actions must be completed through the admin portal. Setup is supported by our team, and API usage is limited to referral creation only.
• API documentation: Yes
• API documentation formats:
  • HTML
  • ODF
  • PDF
• API sandbox or test environment: Yes
• Customisation available: Yes
• Description of customisation: Rego is designed to fit around your organisation. We know every healthcare setting has its own priorities, so we make sure the platform reflects your way of working. That means tailoring clinical referral pathways, referral workflows, dashboards, and specialty-specific configurations so they align with local processes and governance.; Our team works closely with you to understand your requirements and then configures the system on your behalf. This ensures everything is clinically safe, compliant, and tested before it goes live.

Scaling

• Independence of resources: Our team and systems are equipped to deal with growth accordingly.; ; NEC is structured to provide support to a large number of existing clients across many technology and product sets. Therefore we are confident our operations can be scaled to ensure users are not affected by the demand other users place on our services.; NEC Rego is scalable to connect all practices that require access. Our helpdesk has vast experience in rapidly registering and implementing the system to hundreds of ‘out of area’ or private practices that needed to refer patients to NHS services.

Analytics

• Service usage metrics: Yes
• Metrics types: In NEC Rego, every click is a datapoint and so we are able to report any activity, with unprecedented granularity. Example report types include: Usage, heatmaps, benchmark reports, activity and performance.
• Reporting types:
  • Real-time dashboards
  • Regular reports
  • Reports on request
• Resource tagging: No
• FOCUS resource tagging: No

Supplier type

• Supplier type: Not a reseller

Staff security

• Staff security clearance: Conforms to BS7858:2019
• Government security clearance: Developed Vetting (DV)

Asset protection

• Knowledge of data storage and processing locations: Yes
• Data storage and processing locations: United Kingdom
• User control over data storage and processing locations: Yes
• Datacentre security standards: Supplier-defined controls
• Penetration testing frequency: At least once a year
• Penetration testing approach: ‘IT Health Check’ performed by a CHECK service provider
• Protecting data at rest:
  • Physical access control, complying with another standard
  • Encryption of all physical media
  • Scale, obfuscating techniques, or data storage sharding
  • Other
• Other data at rest protection approach: NEC utilise a variety of cloud and datacentre infrastructure, including NEC Managed datacentre services and public cloud platforms such as Azure, OCI and AWS. In addition to encryption, various measures are implemented such as active monitoring and robust access processes to protect data at rest. These controls are regularly reviewed by our Security Architects to ensure they are relevant to current threats and only authorised users can access customer data.; NEC Hosted Datacentres are approved against the Police-Approved Secure Facilities (UK) standard. All data centre services are ISO27001:2022 certified.
• Data sanitisation process: Yes
• Data sanitisation type:
  • Data Erasure
  • Explicit overwriting of storage before reallocation / Secure Erase
  • Physical Destruction / Hardware containing data is completely destroyed
• Equipment disposal approach: Complying with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v4.0, CAS (Sanitisation) or ISO/IEC 27001

Data importing and exporting

• Data export approach: NEC Rego includes a customisable dashboard module. The dashboard was designed as per the trust requirements and includes details of referral activity that can be viewed by all relevant stakeholders. Data available in the dashboard refreshes every 6 hours and can be extracted in a CSV, Excel, Google Sheets format. On request, the pdf reports can be provided.
• Data export formats:
  • CSV
  • Other
• Other data export formats:
  • Excel
  • PDF
  • XML
  • Google Sheets
• Data import formats:
  • CSV
  • Other
• Other data import formats: SQL

Data-in-transit protection

• Data protection between buyer and supplier networks:
  • Private network or public sector network
  • TLS (version 1.2 or above)
  • IPsec or TLS VPN gateway
  • Other
• Other protection between networks: Private MPLS circuits or equivalent and FastConnect. NEC hosted solutions can be accessed using a fixed circuit or IPsec VPN. Access uses encrypted TLS 1.2 connection with 2048-bit RSA/SHA256 encryption keys, recommended by National-Cyber-Security-Centre (NCSC). NEC implements attack protection involving our perimeter firewall, traffic manager and application-specific filters. Our perimeter firewall supports intrusion detection/intrusion prevention and has request-flooding protection based on thresholds and dynamic address blocking based on feeds from high confidence sources. Traffic manager and application-specific filtering is implemented that recognises and dynamically blocks sources of unusual high-volume traffic, typical of an attack that is outside of expected bounds.
• Data protection within supplier network:
  • TLS (version 1.2 or above)
  • IPsec or TLS VPN gateway
  • Other
• Other protection within supplier network: Privileged user access to Windows servers requires an encrypted TLS channel configured to use industry-standard Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.2 protocol with 2048-bit RSA/SHA256 encryption keys, as recommended by NCSC. Privileged user access to Linux servers, Unix Servers and network devices is configured to use SSHv2 using AES-256 encryption.; All hosted services are backed up to the NEC Backup solution, where data is encrypted using AES-256 encryption when transferring data from the system to the backup devices.

Availability and resilience

• Guaranteed availability: We guarantee the availability of our hosted solutions to meet contracted levels.
• Approach to resilience: Our service is designed with high availability and fault tolerance in mind. All major components, including web servers, application servers, and databases, are deployed in a redundant configuration to eliminate single points of failure. We operate across dual data centres in geographically separate locations, ensuring continuity in the event of a site-level outage. Data is replicated in real time between these centres, and automated failover processes allow services to switch seamlessly if an issue occurs.; We use load balancing across multiple nodes to maintain performance and resilience under varying traffic conditions. Regular disaster recovery testing and backup procedures are in place to validate recovery objectives. Our infrastructure is hosted in ISO 27001-certified environments with robust physical and network security controls.
• Outage reporting: We report outages promptly via email alerts to registered contacts. Notifications include details of the incident, impact, and estimated resolution time, with progress updates until full service restoration.; For major incidents, we also provide a post-incident summary outlining root cause and corrective actions.

Identity and authentication

• User authentication needed: Yes
• User authentication:
  • Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
  • Username or password
  • Other
• Other user authentication: Username and password + Smartcard; Username and password + one time passkey
• Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels: Management interfaces – 2 factor authentication.; Support can only be accessed once user is in the system and has been authenticated.
• Access restriction testing frequency: At least every 6 months
• Management access authentication:
  • Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
  • Username or password
  • Other
• Description of management access authentication: Username and password + Smartcard; Username and password + one time passkey

Audit information for users

• Access to user activity audit information: Users have access to real-time audit information
• How long user audit data is stored for: At least 12 months
• Access to supplier activity audit information: Users have access to real-time audit information
• How long supplier audit data is stored for: At least 12 months
• How long system logs are stored for: At least 12 months

Security governance

• Named board-level person responsible for service security: Yes
• Software Security Code of Practice: Yes
• Security governance certified: Yes
• Security governance standards: ISO/IEC 27001
• Information security policies and processes: The NEC Information Security Management System (ISMS) is registered to the International Standard (ISO 27001:2022). Our security policies and procedures have been created to fully comply with the requirements of this ISO 27001 standard. NEC runs a full information security internal audit programme and is independently audited by the British Standards Institute (BSI). This audit reviews our security management controls, policies and processes and ensures these meet the required standard. ; Our security policies and procedures are updated at least annually, and include an Information Security Policy, Data Protection Policy and an Acceptable Use Policy. ; We have a Cyber Security Breach Response Plan providing a plan that will be initiated in the event of NEC experiencing a major cyber security breach, or in response to a high-risk situation that will cause a significant breach if the necessary co-ordinated, preventative action is not taken. Incidents are managed within the context of our ISO/IEC 20000-1 compliant IT Service Management system by dedicated Information Security personnel.; NEC has achieved NCSC Cyber Essentials Plus certification demonstrating our ability to implement processes and procedures that result in protection against the most common cyber threats and demonstrate commitment to cyber security.

Operational security

• Configuration and change management standard: Complies with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v4.0 or SSAE-18 / ISAE 3402
• Configuration and change management approach: NEC is certified for ISO20000:2018 for Service Management.; The status, location and configuration of service components are tracked throughout their lifetime in the NEC Configuration Management Database (CMDB). This is held within the NEC IT Service Management System. Changes to that asset are made via a Change Request or Service Request.; An Impact Assessment (IA) is produced for each Change Request (CR), and a risk score is generated based on the content of the Impact Assessment. ; The CR and risk score is reviewed and approved by NEC, including members of the security team, before going to the customer for approval.
• Vulnerability management type: Complies with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v4.0 or SSAE-18 / ISAE 3402
• Vulnerability management approach: NEC employs several different technologies related to vulnerability management, ensuring that all devices are updated regularly. Where possible automated patching is performed to ensure the timely implementation of updates and patches. Critical and security related updates and patches are proactively monitored and where necessary implemented as soon as possible. ; NEC is a member of the NCSC Cyber Security Information Sharing Partnership (CiSP) and subscribes to the NCSC Early Warning Service which scans for network abuse events on an organisation’s network, as well as vulnerable network services on an organisation’s Internet-facing services. Threats and CVEs are triaged by the InfoSec team.
• Protective monitoring type: Complies with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v4.0 or SSAE-18 / ISAE 3402
• Protective monitoring approach: The NEC security monitoring policies/procedures are aligned with incident management policies and practices. Any significant security issues identified by analysis of monitoring alerts and/or reports will result in the NEC InfoSec team raising a security incident to initiate the associated detailed analysis process. ; NEC uses an advanced SIEM monitoring service as part of our protective monitoring solution. Our SIEM provides predefined alerts and reports that enable log sources to be processed and comply with NCSC guidance and the Data Protection Act 2018. ; Network monitoring-related alerts are sent to our central service management tool and monitored by a 24x7 Service Desk.
• Incident management type: Complies with a recognised standard, for example, CSA CCM v4.0 or ISO/IEC 27035:2011 or SSAE-18 / ISAE 3402
• Post-quantum cryptography secure: Yes
• Incident management approach: Our Incident Service Management Tool is available online 24/7 and updates will be communicated via email and/or telephone. The NEC Service Desk and ISMT is based on ITIL principles; all staff have ITIL foundation training. Key team members also hold qualifications in ITIL Service Management. High priority incidents can be reported by telephoning or emailing the NEC Service Desk. ; ; Our ISMT enables incident and support requests to be centrally managed as a unique event providing full traceability and audit history.

Secure development

• Approach to secure software development best practice: Independent review of processes (for example CESG CPA Build Standard, ISO/IEC 27034, ISO/IEC 27001 or CSA CCM v4.0)

Public sector networks

• Connection to public sector networks: Yes
• Connected networks: Health and Social Care Network (HSCN)

Pricing

• Discount for educational organisations: No
• Free trial available: No

Discount percentage by annual call-off contract value (excluding VAT)

• Less than £250,000: 0%
• Between £250,000 and £500,000: 0%
• Between £500,001 and £1,000,000: 0%
• Between £1,000,001 and £2,500,000: 0%
• Between £2,500,001 and £5,000,000: 0%
• Over £5,000,001: 0%

Standards and certifications

• ISO/IEC 27001 certification: Yes
• ISO/IEC 27001 accredited by: British Standards Institute (BSI)
• ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date: Friday 7 June 2024
• What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover: All our supporting services are in scope.
• ISO 28000:2022 certification: No
• ISO 9001 certification: Yes
• ISO 9001 certification accredited by: British Standards Institute (BSI)
• ISO 9001 accreditation date: Sunday 23 March 2025
• What the ISO 9001 doesn’t cover: Services provided by NEC that are not development, test and support of our products.
• Quality management systems (QMS): Yes
• CSA STAR certification: No
• PCI certification: No
• Cyber essentials: Yes
• Cyber Essentials Certificate Number: 7f5cb813-628a-41f1-aaf5-c37764551202
• Cyber essentials plus: Yes
• Cyber Essentials Plus Certificate Number: Cd276d2d-b032-4133-ae64-3e04eb38b000
• Other security certifications: Yes
• Any other security certifications:
  • ISO 20000:2018
  • ISO 22301:2019
  • ISO 14001:2015

Social value

• Mission: Kick start economic growth:

  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
  • New apprenticeships on the contract workforce in the relevant area that meet the criteria set out in MAC 1b
  • 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
  • Ensuring new workers are informed of their right to join a trade union
  • Monitoring of employee engagement rates (by protected characteristic) and, where necessary, the development of actions to ensure all voices are heard across the diversity of the workforce
  • Employment contracts that reflect actual hours worked; steps taken to ensure employees understand their contracts and have the ability to review and adjust them if actual hours regularly exceed contracted hours
  • Activities that support an environment where staff are educated about, and feel empowered to, address their physical wellbeing
  • Activities that support an environment where staff are educated about and feel empowered to report and address bullying and harassment
  • Activities to cascade good practice on fair working conditions throughout the supply chain
  • Offer a pay and leave entitlement to all eligible staff who become kinship carers, ideally equivalent to statutory adoption pay and leave
  • Payment of more than the National Minimum Wage or National Living Wage (as appropriate) to the contract workforce
  • Monitoring and reporting of gender and ethnicity pay gaps and plans to address them where necessary
  • Entitlement to sick pay for the contract workforce, with provision in place for any staff who do not meet the earnings threshold for statutory sick pay, payment of sick pay from day one of absence and payment of staff on the contract workforce who are off sick a replacement income of 100% of their usual earnings for as long as possible
  • Plans for an appropriate income replacement policy for staff who are required to spend time away from work to care for a sick dependent or close relative
  • Understanding of in-work progression issues affecting the market, industry or sector relevant to the contract, and in the supplier’s own organisation and those of its key sub-contractors
  • Measures to support in-work progression to help people in the contract workforce, to move into higher paid work by developing new skills relevant to the contract
  • Support for the contract workforce by providing career advice, and providing opportunities for staff working on the contract with in-work progression career development into known skills shortages or high growth areas
  • Support for educational attainment relevant to the contract, including training schemes that address skills gaps and result in recognised qualifications
  • Volunteering opportunities for staff
  • Understanding of the modern slavery risks and issues affecting the market, industry, sector or country (of origin or of source) relevant to the contract, and the workforce in the supplier’s own organisation and those of its key subcontractors
  • Measures to identify, mitigate and manage modern slavery risks relating to the contract and how these will be implemented
  • Outline policies and practices to be applied to or put in place for the contract to mitigate and manage modern slavery risks, including: Pre-employment checks, recruitment practices. Workplace conditions, safeguarding plans and processes in place and regular monitoring with relevant groups considered, which may include sampling
  • How these flow down the supply chain and are monitored Illustrative examples include reporting, site visits, audits, etc.
  • How to ensure business decisions re: price/cost, short lead times, payment timescales do not create modern slavery risks in the supply chain
  • How the supplier will work with NGOs, trade unions or other businesses to address modern slavery risk
  • Means of influencing staff, suppliers, customers, communities and/or any other appropriate stakeholders with respect to modern slavery risks relating to the contract

  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
  • Support for educational attainment relevant to the contract, including training schemes that address skills gaps and result in recognised qualifications
  • Activities to support relevant sector related skills growth and sustainability in the contract workforce. Illustrative examples: careers talks, curriculum support, literacy support, safety talks and volunteering
  • Delivery of apprenticeships, supported internships and T Level industry placement opportunities (Level 2, 3 and 4+) in relation to the contract

  Policy Outcome 3: Resilient, innovative and flexible supply chains: Support economic growth through enabling resilient businesses, opportunities for small businesses and voluntary, community and social enterprises

  • Understanding of the types of businesses in the market and the level of participation by new businesses, entrepreneurs, start-ups, SMEs, VCSEs and mutuals
  • Activities to identify opportunities to open up sub-contracts under the prime contract to a diverse range of businesses, including new businesses, entrepreneurs, start-ups, SMEs, VCSEs and mutuals
  • Plans for engaging a diverse range of businesses in engagement activities prior to appointing subcontractors (including activities prior to award of the main contract and during the contract term)
  • Activities that demonstrate a collaborative way to work with a diverse range of businesses as part of the supply chain
  • Advertising of supply chain opportunities openly and to ensure they are accessible to a diverse range of businesses, including advertising all subcontracting opportunities on Contracts Finder
  • Ensuring accessibility to contracting and subcontracting opportunities for disabled business owners and employees
  • Structuring of the supply chain selection process to ensure fairness (e.g. anti-corruption) and encourages participation by a diverse range of businesses, including with regard to new businesses, entrepreneurs, start-ups, SMEs, VCSEs and mutual
  • Understanding of local demographics, needs and opportunities for the co-design of the goods, services and works to be delivered under the contract
  • Methods for engaging with different parts of the community (including the education system and charities representing the community) and how communities come together to inform decisions, strategy and projects to leave a positive legacy for future generations
  • Measures to involve local stakeholders and/or users in design (e.g. in the design of services, systems, products or buildings)
  • Plans for positive actions with community groups.
  • Measures for making facilities used in the delivery of the contract available for community groups, education or training
  • Measures to engage users and communities and build relationships to increase community integration build trust and influence how the contract is delivered
  • Plans to respond flexibly and adapt approaches to community engagement and initiatives
  • Support for community-led initiatives relevant to the contract. Illustrative examples: improving transport links; reducing loneliness; helping with English language proficiency; and facilitating social mixing among people with different backgrounds
  • Collaborating with anchor institutions and community groups to make facilities available for education, training or community events
• Mission: Make Britain a clean energy superpower:

  To cut bills, create jobs and deliver security with cheaper, zero-carbon electricity by 2030, accelerating to net zero

  Policy Outcome 4: Sustainable procurement practices: Reducing carbon footprints, minimising waste, and promoting the use of clean energy and green technologies.

  • Understanding of opportunities for additional environmental benefits delivery in the performance of the contract, including working towards net zero carbon emissions and use of clean energy and green technologies
  • Collaborative ways of working with the supply chain to deliver additional environmental benefits in the performance of the contract, including working towards net zero carbon emissions and use of clean energy and green technologies
  • Delivery of additional environmental benefits through the performance of the contract, including working towards net zero carbon emissions and use of clean energy and green technologies
  • Understanding of how to influence staff, suppliers, customers, communities and/or any other appropriate stakeholders through the delivery of the contract to support climate and nature protection and improvement
  • Activities to reconnect people with the environment and increase awareness of ways to protect and enhance it
• Mission: Break down barriers to opportunity:

  By reforming our childcare and education systems, to make sure there is no class ceiling on the ambitions of young people in Britain

  Policy Outcome 6: Employment and training: For those who face barriers to employment

  • Understanding of employment and skills issues, and of the skills and employment shortages of high growth sectors relating to the contract
  • Creation of employment opportunities particularly for those who face barriers to employment, such as prison leavers, care leavers and/or who are located in deprived areas, and for people in industries with known skills shortages or in high growth sectors
  • Delivery of training schemes and programmes to address any identified skills gaps and under-representation in the workforce for the contract (e.g. prison leavers, care leavers, kinship carers, disabled people)
  • Advertising, promotional and outreach activities designed to raise awareness of the offer to reach the target cohort
  • Understanding of the issues affecting the representation of disabled people in the workforce in the market, industry or sector relevant to the contract, and in the supplier’s own organisation and those of its key sub-contractors
  • Collection of the views and expertise of disabled people and their representative organisations on successfully supporting disabled employees or applicants
  • Inclusive and accessible recruitment practices, and retention-focused activities, including those provided in the Guide for line managers on recruiting, managing and developing people with a disability or health condition
  • Introducing transparency to pay and reward processes
  • Offering a range of quality opportunities with routes of progression if appropriate, e.g. T Level industry placements, students supported into higher level apprenticeships.
  • Working conditions which promote an inclusive working environment and promote retention and progression
  • Other measures to provide equality of opportunity for disabled people and those with health conditions into employment, including becoming a Disability Confident employer and inclusion of supported businesses in the contract supply chain
  • Understanding of the issues affecting inequality in employment, skills and pay in the market, industry or sector relevant to the contract, and in the supplier’s own organisation and those of its key sub-contractors. Measures to tackle inequality in employment, skills and pay in the contract workforce
  • Inclusive and accessible development practices, including guidance for line managers on recruiting, managing and developing people with a disability or health condition

  Policy Outcome 7: Creating a pipeline of opportunities: For the contract workforce, reducing barriers to entry for under-represented groups.

  • Understanding of the issues affecting the development of new skills by target cohort
  • Understanding of the underlying factors affecting improvements to reduce barriers to entry and training schemes for the target cohort(s) related to the contract workforce
  • Other measures to offer development opportunities for the target cohort(s) in the contract workforce
  • Advertising, promotional and outreach activities designed to raise awareness of the offer to reach the target cohort
  • Understanding of issues relating to entering the contract workforce
  • Creation of outreach activities to create a pipeline of employees for the future contract delivery
  • Content of the outreach activity is designed to suit the target cohort
  • Advertising, promotional and outreach activities designed to raise awareness of the offer to reach the target cohort
• Mission: Build an NHS fit for the future:

  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
  • Understanding barriers to access to health and social care services or employment opportunities e.g. digital inclusion
  • Inclusive and accessible recruitment practices, development practices and retention policies that support-focused activities including those provided in the Guide for line managers on recruiting, managing and developing which support people with a disability or health condition
  • Actions to invest in the physical and mental health and wellbeing of the contract workforce

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

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