Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

NHS ODS: NHS TRUSTCentral governmentNorth West EnglandLiverpool

Official UK PPONPXDB-2967-MWLGWebsitealderhey.nhs.uk ↗

Open now0no live notices
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Tenders you can still bid for.

Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.

Notices, last 12 months22+214% vs prior 12 months (7)
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Notices published in the last 12 months.

Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.

Top-3 supplier share29%of 24 awarded procedures · 106 suppliers
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How much of this buyer’s work goes to its three most frequent suppliers.

Share of its awarded tenders that name at least one of the top three. Each tender is counted once.

24 awarded tenders, 106 different suppliers.

Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.

All awards we hold.

Contracts ending ≤18 months1none within 6 months
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.

Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.

A likely retender, not a certain one.

Published award value, 24m£18mnet · on 22 of 58 single-supplier awards · top 5 = 97%
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.

Sum of award values to single suppliers, VAT excluded, on notices from the last 24 months. Framework ceilings and repeated totals are left out.

Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.

What they buy
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What kind of work is bought here.

Notices by procurement category (CPV). A notice with several categories counts in each.

Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each

How they buy
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How work here is packaged.

Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.

Last 24 months · 29 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim

Commercial tool
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How work here is packaged.

Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.

  • Contract 97% (28 notices)
  • Framework 3% (1 notices)
Procedure route
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Which procedures buyers here use.

Notices by the procedure they declare: open, selective, limited or direct. Open and selective are competitions; limited and direct are not.

  • Direct award 62% (18 notices)
  • Open 17% (5 notices)
  • Limited / restricted 10% (3 notices)
  • Route not published 7% (2 notices)
  • Selective 3% (1 notices)
Typical bids per lot
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How many companies usually bid when this buyer runs a tender.

Middle value of the bid counts on its award notices, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.

Based on 2 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.

Last 24 months, all categories.

4.5indicative · n=250% of lots drew a single bid
Notice amendments
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How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.

Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.

Based on 29 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

04 of 29 notices amended
Award vs estimate
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Do this buyer’s awards land above or below its own estimates.

Each lot’s published estimate against its award, on this buyer’s competitions, like for like.

Based on 1 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months. Small sample.

A past pattern, not a price to bid.

Last 24 months.

5% below estimateindicative · n=1

Who wins here
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Which suppliers win the most here.

Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.

All published awards naming a supplier · ranked by distinct procedures, not pounds · panel and call-off entries inflate award records

SupplierProceduresShareLast 24mAward recordsLast activity
Horticon Ltd416.7%3411 Dec 2025
SCHEIDT & BACHMANN (UK) LIMITED28.3%2224 Jul 2026
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust14.2%112 Jul 2026
Phoenix Software Ltd14.2%1124 Jul 2026
The Owl Centre Limited14.2%1122 Jan 2025
NATALIE RIXON CONSULTING LTD14.2%116 Jul 2026
CLINISYS SOLUTIONS LIMITED14.2%112 Jul 2026
The Clatterbridge Pharmacy Limited14.2%112 Jun 2026

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 29% of 24 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 106 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards — not a statement of preference.

Published award value (24m)
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.

Sum of award values to single suppliers, VAT excluded, on notices from the last 24 months. Framework ceilings and repeated totals are left out.

Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.

£18mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 22 of 58 single-supplier awards; the five largest make 97%.
Typical single-supplier award (24m)
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What one of this buyer’s contracts is usually worth.

Middle value of the same awards as the total above.

Last 24 months.

£29k middle valuerobust · n=22Middle half £14k–£70k.
Largest published awards
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The biggest published awards.

Awards to a single supplier with a published value, largest first, so you can check the totals against the notice.

A repeated framework total can appear here. Open the notice to check.

SupplierAwardedTermPublished value
Outpatient Pharmacy ServicesThe Clatterbridge Pharmacy Limited——£16,812,294 †
Provision of Diagnostic Assessments for Children and Young People Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)The Owl Centre Limited——£475,000 †
Provision of a Paediatric Orthodontic ServicesGrosvenor Orthodontics (Chester) Ltd——£180,000 †
Provision of Clinical Support for Virology TestingLiverpool University Hospitals NHS FT——£150,000 †
Provision of PicoWay SystemSYNERON CANDELA (UK) LIMITED——£106,951 †

Contracts ending
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.

Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.

A likely retender, not a certain one.

Published end dates only · 19 of 60 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast

ContractHolderEndsPublished value
Healthcare Evaluation DataUniversity Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust30 Apr 2027£35,000

Recent procedures

Latest 36 of 36 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
Provision of Clinical Support for Virology TestingServices provided by medical laboratoriesAwarded / complete17 Aug 2026—
Engineering Support ServiceAwarded / complete17 Aug 2026—
QNCCAwarded / complete24 Jul 2026—
Annual TwinkleAwarded / complete24 Jul 2026—
software licencesAwarded / complete24 Jul 2026—
teams subscriptionAwarded / complete24 Jul 2026—
Consultancy supportAwarded / complete24 Jul 2026—
licenceAwarded / complete23 Jul 2026—
Management consultancyAwarded / complete6 Jul 2026—
Laboratory Communications systemAwarded / complete2 Jul 2026—
Healthcare Evaluation DataAwarded / complete2 Jul 2026—
Outpatient Pharmacy ServicesPharmacy servicesAwarded / complete2 Jun 2026—
Provision of a Xenon PolariserImaging equipment for medicalAwarded / complete18 Mar 2026£491,700
Provision of PicoWay SystemAwarded / complete16 Mar 2026—
Edge Protection For Roofing Man Safe SystemAwarded / complete24 Feb 2026—
Disposal of historic PPE consumablesAwarded / complete20 Feb 2026—
Hire of pedestrian tugAwarded / complete20 Feb 2026—
Cheshire and Merseyside ICS - Linen and Laundry Services6 lotsHospital linenOpen16 Jan 2026£10,110,000
Temporary Car Park WorksAwarded / complete11 Dec 2025—
Provision of Enteral Feed ProductsAwarded / complete5 Dec 2025—

Search all 36 procedures for this authority →

Data coverage & method
  • Source: Find a Tender OCDS releases; mixed PCR 2015 / Procurement Act 2023 history — no legal-regime label is applied.
  • Counts are procedures (one notice family), not lots. Authority cluster = canonical buyer plus beneficiary and procuring-entity roles.
  • Published procedure values exist on a minority of notices; their lifetime sum (£13m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
  • Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 58 award records on 23 procedures (58 to a single canonical supplier, 0 multi-supplier). 22 values come from the contract record when the award carried none.
  • Bid counts, deadline-to-award, amendments and award-vs-estimate come from the nightly buyer analytics row; each figure’s own method and sample is behind its , the long form on Methodology.
  • Contract end dates: 19 of 60 published contracts carry a period end; 1 end within 18 months, 0 within 6.
  • Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (5 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)

Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.

GB-FTS-185871GB-FTS-39405GB-FTS-39406GB-NHS-PXDB-2967-MWLGGB-NHS-RBS

Canonical page id: GB-PPON-PXDB-2967-MWLG