Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

NHS ODS: NHS TRUSTCentral governmentWest MidlandsBirmingham

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Tenders you can still bid for.

Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.

Notices, last 12 months177+113% vs prior 12 months (83)
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Notices published in the last 12 months.

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

Typical bids per lot3.520% single-bid · 10 bid reports
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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 10 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

Top-3 supplier share9%of 241 awarded procedures · 181 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.

241 awarded tenders, 181 different suppliers.

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

All awards we hold.

Contracts ending ≤18 months9957 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£103mnet · on 216 of 260 single-supplier awards · top 5 = 78%
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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 · 260 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 100% (260 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 85% (220 notices)
  • Open 5% (14 notices)
  • Route not published 5% (13 notices)
  • Limited / restricted 5% (12 notices)
  • Selective 0% (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 10 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

3.5robust · n=1020% 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 260 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

013 of 260 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 9 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months.

A past pattern, not a price to bid.

Last 24 months.

4.1% above estimaterobust · n=9

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
ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS LIMITED93.7%993 Aug 2026
Edge Medical Ltd72.9%7728 Jul 2026
Nonacus Ltd52.1%5522 Sept 2026
Life Technologies Ltd52.1%559 Sept 2026
Aquilant Ltd41.7%448 Sept 2026
Andesco Medical Ltd41.7%443 Jul 2026
Wolfram Syndrome UK41.7%4424 Aug 2026
Agfa HealthCare UK Limited41.7%4428 Sept 2026

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 9% of 241 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 181 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.

£103mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 216 of 260 single-supplier awards; the five largest make 78%.
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.

£30k middle valuerobust · n=216Middle half £16k–£72k; 41 duplicate amounts excluded from both figures (heuristic for republished framework ceilings).
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
Tier 4 Inpatient Services at Parkview ClinicCoventry and Warwickshire NHS Partnership Trust——£63,002,070 †
Mental Health Support Team Wave 12Compass - Services to Improve Health and Wellbeing——£7,400,000 †
WMCPC Admission and Triage UnitActive Young People Limited (Active Care Group)——£4,000,000 †
Waiver - BWC_CQ3 - BSN Construction Group Ltd - ED Expansion Works - Phase 3Building Services NOW Ltd—9 mo£3,505,760 †
Birmingham Women's and Children's Security TenderSNSG Ltd—3 yrs · up to 6 yrs£2,280,290 †
≈ £760k/yr

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 · 224 of 254 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast

Soonest 10 of 99 contracts ending within 18 months.

Recent procedures

Latest 50 of 285 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
Waiver - BWC_CQ3 - CQ3/541 - AGFA Healthcare Ltd - Maintenance ContractAwarded / complete28 Sept 2026—
Waiver - BWC_CQ3 - CQ3/540 - Birmingham Optical Ltd - Maintenance ContractAwarded / complete28 Sept 2026—
Waiver - BWC_CQ3 - CQ3/536 - Hunter Healthcare - RecruitmentAwarded / complete25 Sept 2026—
BWC Genetics LIMS Pre-Market EngagementSoftware package and information systemsPlanning23 Sept 2026£0
Waiver - BWC_RQ3 - 06827 - Revvity - Medical EquipmentAwarded / complete22 Sept 2026—
Waiver - BWC_RQ3 - 06822 - Nonacus Ltd - ReagentsAwarded / complete22 Sept 2026—
Birmingham Womens and Childrens Fire Door ProcurementAwarded / complete21 Sept 2026—
CAMHS Psychiatric LiaisonPsychiatric hospital servicesAwarded / complete15 Sept 2026—
Winter Pressure FundingPsychiatric hospital servicesAwarded / complete14 Sept 2026—
Waiver - BWC_RQ3 - 06819 - Life Technologies Limited - Cancer Service PanelAwarded / complete9 Sept 2026—
Pre-Market Engagement for Craniofacial Orthotics and Helmet Therapy Services for Endoscopic-Assisted Suturectomy Patients and Craniofacial Orthotist ServicesMedical consumablesPlanning8 Sept 2026—
Waiver - BWC_CQ3 - CQ3/534 - Aquilant Ltd- Maintenance ContractAwarded / complete8 Sept 2026—
WSUK Support to Children and YP ServicesHealth servicesAwarded / complete24 Aug 2026—
Hepatitis C DAP AMiscellaneous health servicesAwarded / complete21 Aug 2026—
BWC - Edge Medical Ltd - Spinal Surgical consumablesAwarded / complete21 Aug 2026—
Waiver - BWC_CQ3 - CQ3/531 - Stryker UK Ltd - Maintenance contractAwarded / complete10 Aug 2026—
Waiver - BWC_CQ3 - CQ3/530 - Static Systems Group Plc - Installation ServicesAwarded / complete10 Aug 2026—
Waiver - BWC_RQ3 - 06798 - Life Technologies Ltd - Cancer service PanelAwarded / complete4 Aug 2026—
Waiver - BWC_RQ3 - 06791 - Sebia UK Ltd - ReagentsAwarded / complete4 Aug 2026—
Waiver - BWC_RQ3 - 06799 - System C Ltd - ChemoCare System annual charge for additional administrationAwarded / complete3 Aug 2026—

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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 (£258m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
  • Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 260 award records on 240 procedures (260 to a single canonical supplier, 0 multi-supplier). 210 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: 224 of 254 published contracts carry a period end; 99 end within 18 months, 57 within 6.
  • Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (6 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)

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

GB-FTS-1008GB-FTS-59611GB-FTS-6351GB-FTS-72082GB-FTS-8526GB-NHS-RQ3

Canonical page id: GB-PPON-PNXM-2771-CPCW