Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
NHS ODS: NHS TRUST·Central government·North West England·Chester·Central purchasing body on 11 of 212 notices
Official UK PPONPGCG-2135-TXWLWebsitecoch.nhs.uk ↗
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Tenders you can still bid for.
Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.
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Notices published in the last 12 months.
Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.
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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.
201 awarded tenders, 521 different suppliers.
Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.
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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.
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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.
Open notices
4 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Provision of a deep geothermal solution | 9 Dec 2026 | 70d | £30,000,000 |
| Mobile Diagnostic and Treatment Units Dynamic Purchasing System | 2 Sept 2028 | 704d | £30,000,000 |
| Mobile Diagnostic and Treatment Units Dynamic Purchasing System | 2 Sept 2028 | 704d | £30,000,000 |
| Provision of Falls Prevention, Rehabilitation and Recovery Services | 12 Oct 2029 | 1108d | £17,000,000 |
What they buyi
What kind of work is bought here.
Notices by procurement category (CPV). A notice with several categories counts in each.
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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
85 Health and social work services40 procedures · 19% · 2 open79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting14 procedures · 7%33 Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals12 procedures · 6%48 Software package and information systems9 procedures · 4%71 Architectural, construction, engineering7 procedures · 3% · 1 open34 Transport equipment and products6 procedures · 3% · 2 open45 Construction work6 procedures · 3% · 1 open50 Repair and maintenance services6 procedures · 3%How they buyi
How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
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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 · 212 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim
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How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
- Contract 70% (149 notices)
- Framework 25% (54 notices)
- Dynamic purchasing system 4% (9 notices)
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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 57% (120 notices)
- Route not published 20% (42 notices)
- Open 16% (34 notices)
- Limited / restricted 5% (10 notices)
- Selective 3% (6 notices)
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How long this buyer takes to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from deadline to first award notice, on this buyer’s own tenders.
Based on 10 decided tenders across all categories, last 24 months.
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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 212 notices across all categories, last 24 months.
Who wins herei
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.
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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
| Supplier | Procedures | Share | Last 24m | Award records | Last activity |
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| Health Now Limited | 5 | 2.5% | 5 | 6 | 25 Sept 2026 |
| Elerbanks Ltd | 5 | 2.5% | 5 | 5 | 9 Mar 2026 |
| Elective Services Ltd | 4 | 2% | 4 | 4 | 4 Aug 2026 |
| Senate Mech Ltd | 4 | 2% | 4 | 4 | 17 Aug 2026 |
| MEDISERVICES HEALTHCARE LTD | 4 | 2% | 4 | 4 | 25 Sept 2026 |
| Friends Medical Service Ltd | 4 | 2% | 4 | 4 | 25 Sept 2026 |
| Portland Clinical | 4 | 2% | 3 | 4 | 29 Sept 2026 |
| Liaison Financial Services Limited | 4 | 2% | 2 | 9 | 31 Jul 2025 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 5% of 201 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 521 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards — not a statement of preference.
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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.
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What one of this buyer’s contracts is usually worth.
Middle value of the same awards as the total above.
Largest published awards iThe 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. | Supplier | Awarded | Term | Published value |
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| ID0069 | A COPELAND GROUP LIMITED | — | — | £1,087,548 † |
| Supply of Dialysis Machines | Fresenius Medical Care (UK) Limited | — | 1 yrs | £354,012 † ≈ £354k/yr |
| Wellbeing Co-ordinator Service - Community Healthy Ageing Team | Age UK Cheshire | — | — | £165,093 † |
| Fire Doors | CLC CONSTRUCTION LTD | — | 5 mo | £132,821 † |
| Cyber Security Dashboard | Ithealth U.K. Ltd | — | 3 yrs | £115,000 † ≈ £38k/yr |
Contracts endingi
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.
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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 · 141 of 744 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Contrast Injector Pumps | Bayer Plc | 14 Nov 2026 | £25,937 |
| Microsoft Extended Support | Phoenix Software Ltd | 17 Nov 2026 | £17,612 |
| Fresh Graft | JOINT OPERATIONS LTD | 30 Nov 2026 | £48,400 |
| M/0681 Maintenance of Visitor Car Parks | JL Finance Ltd T/A Newpark Solutions | 18 Feb 2027 | £11,873 |
| Neopuffs & Blenders | Inspiration Healthcare | 8 Mar 2027 | £12,990 |
| Panda Warmers & Giraffe Incubators | GE Medical Systems Ltd | 8 Mar 2027 | £39,610 |
| R345781 - Password Manager Pro Annual Subscription | NU Network Products Ltd | 31 Mar 2027 | £10,972 |
| WEQAS Accreditation | Cardiff & Vale College | 13 May 2027 | £17,800 |
| NCAPOP Subscription - R349331 | Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership | 17 Jun 2027 | £10,000 |
| G/0024 Printed Stationary | Continuous Dataprint (UK) Limited | 21 Jun 2027 | £71,724 |
Soonest 10 of 16 contracts ending within 18 months.
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 262 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
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 (£39m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 531 award records on 171 procedures (521 to a single canonical supplier, 10 multi-supplier). 129 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: 141 of 744 published contracts carry a period end; 16 end within 18 months, 6 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (9 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)
Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.
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