Decision details

Successful process following an open tender.

Award to ANS GROUP LIMITED for Contract Award Decision 1086.3 (Award for Lot 3 for 1086 Procurement)

ANS will work as a strategic digital partner with the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA), and our partner organisations, in the delivery of our Greater Manchester Strategy (GMS) 2021-31 and GM Digital Blueprint 2023-2026 strategic objectives.

It is envisaged that the successful strategic digital partner/s will work with GM over a multi-year period, building a strategic relationship to:
• Drive effectiveness and efficiencies in our digital services, products and approaches
• Define and develop strategic platforms to support existing and new use cases
• Support the GMCA, and other partner organisations, in developing an internal software development/infrastructure capability to work alongside our strategic partner/s

We assume that the following public sector organisations that provide public service delivery for the citizens of Greater Manchester will be able to draw down services through the GMCA contract, should they wish to (This is not a fixed list, and there can be some variance):

• Greater Manchester Combined Authority
• Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership
• Greater Manchester Police
• Transport for Greater Manchester
• Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council
• Bury Metropolitan Borough Council
• Manchester City Council
• Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council
• Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council
• Salford City Council
• Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council
• Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council
• Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council
• Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council
• Bolton Clinical Commissioning Group
• Bury Clinical Commissioning Group
• Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale Clinical Commissioning Group
• Manchester Foundation Trust
• Manchester Health & Care Commissioning
• Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
• Oldham Clinical Commissioning Group
• Salford Clinical Commissioning Group
• Stockport Clinical Commissioning Group
• Tameside and Glossop Clinical Commissioning Group
• Trafford Clinical Commissioning Group
• Wigan Clinical Commissioning Group
• Bolton Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
• Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Trust
• Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
• Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
• Northwest Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust
• Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
• Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
• Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust
• Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
• Tameside Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
• The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
• Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust
• Northwest Boroughs Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
• Greater Manchester Integrated Care Board

Lot 3 contract to commence in May 2025
Contract Subject to 12 Month x 2 Extension – Approval requested of full 4 years