Internal Reference Number: FOI_9314
Date Request Received: 26/03/2026 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 19/05/2026 00:00:00
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Request Summary: Business Case, Procurement and DPIA Templates and Guidance
Request Category: Private Individuals
| Question Number 1: Your organisation鈥檚 internal business case template (blank), and any current internal guides or best practice documents for staff on how to prepare or write a business case. Please include criteria, requirements, or assessment checklists if available. | |
| Answer To Question 1: Please see attached To accompany this answer to question 1 please also see the documents listed below:  2024_updated-sft-bc-template.docx business-case-training-session.pdf | |
| Question Number 2: Any internal guides or standing instructions for your budgetary committee(s) on how business cases are to be assessed or reviewed, including any scoring methodologies, criteria, or objective assessment processes. | |
| Answer To Question 2: Trust Management Committee & Finance and Performance Committee Terms of Reference attached which outline the parameters of approval for business cases in terms of cost. To accompany this answer to question 2 please also see the documents listed below: F& P Terms of Reference_.docx TMC Terms of Reference V1.5 02.01.25.docx | |
| Question Number 3: Your current procurement strategy template (blank), or any process documentation relating to the waiver process that may run alongside the business case. | |
| Answer To Question 3: See attached. To accompany this answer to question 3 please also see the documents listed below: Procurement-Strategy_excl.appendix-B_FINAL_15012024 (1).pdf | |
| Question Number 4: Your organisation鈥檚 standing financial instructions (SFIs), or equivalent document governing procurement thresholds and authorisation limits. | |
| Answer To Question 4: The Trust's Standing Financial Instructions can be found at the below web address /about-us/corporate-governance/ | |
| Question Number 5: Your Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) template (blank), and any supporting internal guides for staff on how to complete a DPIA. | |
| Answer To Question 5: See attached. To accompany this answer to question 5 please also see the documents listed below: data-protection-impact-assessment-template-v22.docx | |
| Question Number 6: A single example of a business case for a project or solution involving digital technology or a digital supplier, approved by your organisation in the last 18 months. Please redact or remove any information that is commercially sensitive or personal data as required by law. If your organisation has not approved any such business case in this period, please provide an example from the last 18 months for a project or solution involving an external supplier (not involving digital technology). If neither are available, please confirm this. | |
| Answer To Question 6: The Trust are providing a business case that while not a third party supplier-customer case, is representative of us investing in joining the regional research and innovation partnership 鈥榃essex Health Partners鈥� 鈥� the case provides a good oversight on the strategic and financial rationales currently faced by acute trusts in making their investments. Furthermore this is relatively up to date, having been approved in March 2026. To accompany this answer to question 6 please also see the documents listed below: 2026_SFT_WHP_Membership_Business_Case_FOI-Redacted.pdf | |
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