Power to conclude and manage framework agreements4
1
The Board may conclude and manage framework agreements to facilitate the purchase and supply of a service, drug, medicine or other substance or product to which paragraph (2) applies.
2
This paragraph applies to a service, drug, medicine or other substance or product that is to be provided as part of the health service for—
a
the purposes of preventing, diagnosing, monitoring or treating a physical or mental illness;
b
the purposes of providing care to an individual; or
c
a purpose related to any matter mentioned in sub-paragraph (a) or (b).
3
In this regulation—
a
“framework agreement” means an agreement between the Board and one (or more than one) economic operator (within the meaning of regulation 2 (definitions) of the Public Contracts Regulations 20155), the purpose of which is to establish the terms governing contracts to be entered into during a given period, in particular with regard to price and, where appropriate, the quantity envisaged; and