Delivering PHE’s Objectives through Procurement

Public Health England believes that “Economic growth and prosperity being enjoyed by local people is at the heart of closing the health gap. Growth creates jobs for local people, brings benefits to their children, helps their family to stay well and as people get older, helps them to live at home for longer”.

As an organisation we seek to reflect this mission in all that we do, and this includes how we conduct our activities and source our goods and services. We want to work with our supplier base to support our organisational objectives, and so our commercial evaluations of tenders will include appropriate elements of economic, environmental and social procurement. We have the expectation that all our suppliers will be able to provide assurance that they comply with the Modern Slavery Act 2015, and that all their UK employees earn as a minimum, the Living Foundation Wage or are working towards it.

As part of our contract and supplier management, we will work with our suppliers to learn how together we can create sustainable solutions and reduce health inequalities.