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How to buy Vivid Care seating for your trust

Buying from us

There is more than one route to us, and we will find yours

The right buying route depends on your trust. This page sets out the framework and direct options, the paperwork we provide, the funding routes available if capital is the blocker, and the service where we run the procurement process on your behalf. If you are unsure, one call and we will map it out with you.

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Framework and direct routes We chase the approvals for you Finance and charitable funding
Your options

Routes to purchase

Different trusts buy in different ways. These are the routes available to you. If you are not sure which one your trust uses, we will work it out with you.

Framework routes

We can supply through applicable NHS framework routes. Tell us which framework your trust buys under and we will confirm how to order.

NHS Shared Business Services

We can supply via NHS Shared Business Services routes. Talk to us and we will confirm the ordering process for your trust.

Direct purchase

Buy directly from us with full documentation support, for trusts and teams buying outside framework routes.

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Finance and lease

Contract lease, lease purchase and hire, to move spend from capital budgets to operating budgets.

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Charitable and grant funding

Many wards fund seating through their hospital charity or a grant-making trust. We help you identify the right funder and write the application, using the same evidence that goes into your business case.

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Not sure which route applies?

Tell us your trust and what you are trying to buy. We will identify the right route and send the paperwork to match.

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Managed procurement

We will run the process for you, so you can get back to your patients

Clinicians tell us the same thing again and again: the chair is not the hard part, the process is. Chasing a requisition through procurement and finance can take weeks of phone calls and emails that come straight out of clinical time. So we do it for you. Once you tell us what you need, we take the paperwork from there and stay with it until the chairs are on your ward.

  • We prepare and pre-fill every document your process asks for
  • We track the requisition and chase the approvals at each stage
  • We follow up directly with procurement and finance on your behalf
  • We keep you updated, so you never have to ask where it has got to
  • One named point of contact from first call to delivery
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We do the paperwork

Everything your procurement and clinical teams need

All of it pre-filled, product-specific, and free to use whether you buy from us or not. Everything else that comes with working with us is set out under NHS services and benefits.

Justification templates

Pre-filled, product-specific justification forms for every chair we make.

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PAQs and PQQs

Pre-filled pre-assessment and pre-qualification questionnaires ready for your process.

Risk assessments

Product risk assessments to support requisitions and clinical sign-off.

Seat sizing forms

Sizing and prescription forms so the chair fits the patient first time.

Product information packs

Department-curated packs for business cases and funding submissions.

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Supply and logistics

Storage, ward-level call-off, asset tracking and disposal of old stock.

If capital is the blocker

Flexible ways to fund the chairs you need

Not every purchase can wait for the capital cycle. We offer contract lease, lease purchase and hire for trusts, we can help you build a case for charitable or grant funding, and where an individual is self-funding within a mixed pathway, Snap Finance spreads the cost.

  • Contract lease and lease purchase for operating-budget spend
  • Short-term and surge chair hire
  • Support writing charitable and grant funding applications
  • Snap Finance for self-funded routes
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Not sure which route applies to you?

Tell us your trust and what you are trying to buy. We will identify the right route, send the paperwork to match, and if you want us to, run the process for you.

Find my buying route 01423 799 960
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