£2.9bn ProCure21 set for expansion beyond NHS

A massive expansion of the £2.9bn NHS ProCure21 framework is planned when the contract is retendered next year.

The new contract, likely to be called ProCure21 Plus, will allow all local authorities and government departments to use it, which could see its workload more than doubled.

ProCure21 currently delivers publicly funded NHS capital schemes but under the new framework its brief could be expanded into social care, housing and education schemes.

A major 60-day consultation exercise with contractors, NHS Trusts, local authority and central government departments is to be launched in January before the details of the new framework are finalised. It will be advertised in May.