The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust's Commercial Procurement service seeks to establish a single supplier Framework Agreement to deliver Optional Remuneration Arrangement (OPRA) benefit schemes that will provide a range of lease cars to the employees of Participating Organisations.

Public sector organisations may utilise salary sacrifice schemes to help motivate and engage employees and demonstrate the value that the organisation places on them.

The Framework Agreement will provide the means for public sector employers to offer lease car salary sacrifice schemes to their employees. The service offering should provide value for money and enable employees to choose cars from a range of manufacturers, across a range of car categories.

Salary sacrifice schemes offered under the terms of the Framework Agreement will provide employees with the means to obtain the car
of their choice, to their desired specification (subject to any CO2 emissions limit set by individual organisations), at a competitive price with affordable payments typically over a period of up to 36 months that are paid directly from their monthly salary.

Salary sacrifice schemes offered under the terms of the Framework Agreement will offer a range of financial (where permitted) and non-financial benefits to employees accessing individual salary sacrifice schemes and to public sector organisations offering individual salary sacrifice schemes to their employees.

Salary sacrifice schemes offered under the terms of the Framework Agreement will be easy for employees to enter and for employers to administer with a high degree of self-service using a state of the art online portal developed specifically for salary sacrifice type services that is simple and intuitive to use for employees and for the Administration, Human Resources, Finance and any other authorised departmental users in public sector organisations. The online portal should have Single Sign On (SSO) capability that is compatible with a range of employee benefit providers.

A list of eligible users of the proposed framework agreement is available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge, at: www.nhssourcing.co.uk