Pandemic Personal Protective Equipment: consultation

Annex B: Information on the Procurement Framework Available to Employers Requiring PPE (Non Health and Social Care Settings) - Closed on 31 October 2021.

In the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Scottish Government established a framework with a third party to provide PPE for purchase. Eligible organisations could purchase PPE from this supplier when they were unable to secure PPE supplies through existing channels or needed to supplement existing supply chains to deliver essential public services.

This service broadly covered those organisations that could not access the three established procurement routes for PPE for health and social care (NHS National Services Scotland); local government (Scotland Excel) and Higher and Further Education (Local Government and Advanced Procurement for Universities and Colleges). The full list of organisations that were eligible is below.

• Charities entered on the Scottish Charity Register
• Voluntary organisations entered on the Membership Database of the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations
• Scottish Government bodies including Agencies, Scottish Non-Departmental Public Bodies, The Scotland Office and the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body,
• Councils constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994.
• Scottish Fire & Rescue Service,
• The Scottish Police Authority,
• Registered Social Landlords,
• Student Loans Company Limited,
• The Forestry Commission,
• The Commissioner of Northern Lighthouse operating as the Northern Lighthouse Board
• Equality and Human Rights Commission,
• Business Stream Ltd,
• The Business Gateway National Unit at the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities,
• Further or higher education institutions
• Any public body established by or under the Scotland Act 1998 or any Act of the Scottish Parliament, any association of or formed by one or more of the foregoing, bodies financed wholly or mainly by one or more of the foregoing, bodies subject to management supervision by one or more of the foregoing and bodies more than half of the board of directors or members of which, or, in the case of a group of individuals, more than half of those individuals, being appointed by one or more of the foregoing.
• Private-sector organisations that have been authorised by the Scottish Government to access the Framework Agreement (by reason of their employing staff who provide essential public services where there is a risk to health).