- Smart Healthcare, Friday 5 February 2010 16.45 GMT
In a prior information notice in the Official Journal of the European Union, the NHS North West Collaborative Commercial Agency said it plans to launch a tender for "the provision and development of the NHS jobs electronic recruitment managed service" in April.
The agency confirmed it will run the tender on behalf of organisations nationally, rather than just for its region. The prior information notice invites interested suppliers to join meetings to discuss the tender, "to test at a high level some of our assumptions around the scope of the tender before we finalise our tender documents".
NHS Jobs is run by NHS Employers, part of the NHS Confederation which represents health service bodies. Methods Consulting and Jobsite UK won the £6m five year deal to run the site, then covering the health service in England only, in October 2003. Local pilots began that year and it was fully introduced in 2004.
The site now covers Wales as well as England, with every health service organisation in the two countries using it. NHS Employers has said the site receives more than 6m visits and 250,000 applications each month, and that it has saved the NHS more than £240m since its launch.
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