Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

NHS ODS: NHS TRUSTCentral governmentEast of EnglandCambridgeRan 1 procurement for other authorities

Official UK PPONPPCP-8863-HDGNWebsitecuh.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 months580+199% vs prior 12 months (194)
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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 share6%of 747 awarded procedures · 434 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.

747 awarded tenders, 434 different suppliers.

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

All awards we hold.

Contracts ending ≤18 months304189 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£135mnet · on 657 of 735 single-supplier awards · top 5 = 79%
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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 · 774 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% (773 notices)
  • Framework 0% (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.

  • Route not published 87% (676 notices)
  • Direct award 10% (76 notices)
  • Open 2% (12 notices)
  • Limited / restricted 1% (9 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 2 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.

Last 24 months, all categories.

2indicative · 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 777 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

010 of 777 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 2 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months. Small sample.

A past pattern, not a price to bid.

Last 24 months.

32.5% below estimateindicative · n=2

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
NHS ENGLAND182.4%181821 Sept 2026
MILLS AND REEVE152%151527 Apr 2026
KARL STORZ Endoscopy (UK) Ltd.131.7%131317 Mar 2026
GE Medical Systems Ltd111.5%111113 Feb 2026
Smartbox Assistive technology81.1%8824 Aug 2026
Canon Medical Systems81.1%889 Jun 2026
Stryker UK Ltd81.1%8824 Sept 2026
Medtronic Limited81.1%8827 Aug 2026

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 6% of 747 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 434 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.

£135mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 657 of 735 single-supplier awards; the five largest make 79%.
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.

£25k middle valuerobust · n=657Middle half £16k–£50k; 76 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
Electronic Patient Record ContractEpic Systems Corporation——£99,695,008 †
Provision of Microsoft Server Cloud Enrolment LicencesPhoenix Software Ltd——£2,750,000 †
serviceJaeger Medical UK Ltd15 May 20254 mo£2,014,193
Supply, Delivery, Installation, Commissioning and Post-Warranty Maintenance of an Automated System for the Embedding of Tissue Samples in Paraffin Wax including Tracking, Transport and Storage and Retrieval of Wax Tissue BlocksAxlab Ltd.—7 yrs · up to 10 yrs£1,900,000 †
≈ £271k/yr
5-year fully comprehensive maintenance agreement for a RayStation treatment planning systemRaySearch Laboratories AB——£671,745 †

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 · 699 of 732 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast

Soonest 10 of 304 contracts ending within 18 months.

Recent procedures

Latest 50 of 811 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
1. Pulse MDT softwareAwarded / complete29 Sept 2026—
Pulse MDT softwareAwarded / complete28 Sept 2026—
Service Agreement for 35 Operon Tables in Main TheatresAwarded / complete24 Sept 2026—
Artificial intelligence platform.Awarded / complete23 Sept 2026—
Negotiation workAwarded / complete22 Sept 2026—
finance ledger system,Awarded / complete22 Sept 2026—
New finance ledger system,Awarded / complete22 Sept 2026—
New finance ledger systemAwarded / complete22 Sept 2026—
finance ledger system,Awarded / complete22 Sept 2026—
Corneal graft materialAwarded / complete22 Sept 2026—
Comprehensive Service & Maintenance ContractAwarded / complete21 Sept 2026—
Service, Maintenance, software and licenceAwarded / complete17 Sept 2026—
Service contractAwarded / complete17 Sept 2026—
LAB software subscription.Awarded / complete17 Sept 2026—
Pajunk UK Medical Products Ltd - Elastomeric pumpsAwarded / complete17 Sept 2026—
Signature Plus Service planAwarded / complete16 Sept 2026—
External window cleaning and spiking servicesAwarded / complete16 Sept 2026—
-Specialist consultantAwarded / complete15 Sept 2026—
Service and CalibrationAwarded / complete15 Sept 2026—
Portable air conditioning unitsAwarded / complete15 Sept 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 (£145m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
  • Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 735 award records on 735 procedures (735 to a single canonical supplier, 0 multi-supplier). 629 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: 699 of 732 published contracts carry a period end; 304 end within 18 months, 189 within 6.
  • Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (7 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)

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

GB-FTS-166808GB-FTS-6624GB-FTS-6625GB-FTS-799GB-FTS-800GB-FTS-88986GB-NHS-RGT

Canonical page id: GB-PPON-PPCP-8863-HDGN