SDP’s Work with the NHS

SDP engages with the National Health Service (NHS) both through its ongoing work with its Affiliate Member NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, and through bespoke projects with other NHS Trusts. 

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NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and NHSGCC Public Health want to hear from you!

The Supplier Development Programme (SDP) is working with NHS Greater Glasgow, and Clyde (NHSGGC) and NHSGGC Public Health, to help suppliers and Third Sector Organisations (TSOs) better understand how to use the NHS National Community Benefit Gateway (NCBG) portal for Glasgow.

Working alongside Glasgow Council for Voluntary services and Glasgow Social Enterprise Network and other TSI’s, we are delighted to invite you to participate in this survey to inform us on your awareness and use of the National Community Benefit Gateway portal and to inform you about future free training on how to write a compelling entry (bid) on the portal.

The NCBG web portal was developed and launched by NHS Scotland National Services (NSS) to link national NHS contracts to local community benefit needs.

We’d love to hear what you do or don’t know about the portal, so that we can offer feedback on awareness of NCBG.

Complete the survey here!

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SDP Raises Awareness of NHS National Community Benefit Gateway Portal for Glasgow

The Supplier Development Programme (SDP) has published an online report on it NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Anchors Procurement Development Project, which helped NHSGGC increase awareness and use of its NHS National Community Benefit Gateway Portal, to promote Community Wealth Building.

The success of the project was recognised nationally, with it being awarded the Public Procurement Project of the Year Award at the GO Awards Scotland 2025/26. The GO Awards celebrate excellence in procurement across Scotland’s public, private, and third sectors, and both SDP and NHSGGC are delighted that this collaborative work has been acknowledged among other outstanding initiatives.

For further enquiries please contact info@sdpscotland.co.uk

#OpenForBusiness #PowerOfProcurement

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SDP Encourages Local Businesses to Supply Goods, Works and Services to NHSGGC 

Each region of Scotland has a Health Board with its own procurement department. NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) covers six local authority areas in the Glasgow City Region and has an annual budget of £4.4bn.

NHSGGC covers

• East Dunbartonshire
• East Renfrewshire
• Glasgow City
• Inverclyde
• Renfrewshire
• West Dunbartonshire.

SDP and NHSGGC want to encourage more SME suppliers to join its supply chain, by highlighting the wide range of opportunities tendered by the NHS, through training webinars and networking events that debunk the notion that the NHS only procures medical or pharmaceutical requirements.

About SDP

SDP is a business support initiative supported by Scottish Government, and Scottish local authorities, as well as other public and private sector organisations.

SDP helps businesses bid better when they have little or no experience tendering for public sector contracts, or are too small to have dedicated bid team.

Simply, SDP is a free service to support Scottish SMEs, supported businesses and third sector organisations become tender ready for contracts.

For further information contact info@sdpscotland.co.uk

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NHSGGC, NHS Lanarkshire and SDP Supply Chain Diversity Project

From April to December 2022, The Supplier Development Programme (SDP) worked with NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) and NHS Lanarkshire on pilot project to diversify the NHS GGC supply chain.

The project encouraged SMEs and businesses owned/ led by people with ‘protected characteristics’ (such as disabilities or minority group statuses) to bid for NHS GGC contracts.

During the project the partners delivered research, marketing materials and tender training webinars.

SDP provided 6 supplier engagement and tender training webinars to 136 attendees from 127 unique Scottish businesses.

Read the project outcomes report

 

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