Request 1 - How much your Clinical Commissioning Group spent on support from Commissioning Support Units in (a) the financial year 2013/14 and (b) the first three quarters of the financial year 2014/15, including spending on advice, consultancy and services from the CSU?
Request 2 - Of this spending on support from Commissioning Support Units in (a) the financial year 2013/14 and (b) the first three quarters of the financial year 2014/15, how much of this spending related to support with putting NHS services out to tender? (Here, I am interested in the costs of all activities in preparing and running a tender, including scoping, stakeholder engagement, project planning, service specification, advertising, judging, interviewing, legalities, and so on.)
For both questions, if you cannot provide an exact figure, please provide an estimate to the nearest £10,000.
Response as follows:
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2013/14 |
First three quarters of 2014/15 |
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Expenditure on support from CSUs
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£2,100,116 |
£1,492,439 |
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Expenditure on support from CSUs related to putting NHS services out to tender |
£23,290 |
£17,204 |
Please note: the procurement cost is a very loose estimate.
