Department of Health & Social Care: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
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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 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 32 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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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.
467 awarded tenders, 359 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
1 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| DHSC: LERO Development and Resilience Project | 30 Oct 2026 | 30d | £471,866 |
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 services54 procedures · 27% · 1 open79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting40 procedures · 20%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet32 procedures · 16%73 Research and development services25 procedures · 12%33 Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals23 procedures · 11%75 Administration, defence and social security19 procedures · 9%80 Education and training services12 procedures · 6%48 Software package and information systems10 procedures · 5%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 · 202 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 97% (196 notices)
- Framework 2% (4 notices)
- Dynamic purchasing system 1% (2 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.
- Route not published 37% (74 notices)
- Direct award 25% (51 notices)
- Limited / restricted 16% (32 notices)
- Open 16% (32 notices)
- Selective 6% (13 notices)
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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 32 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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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 16 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 203 notices across all categories, last 24 months.
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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 26 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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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| Air Charter Service Ltd | 25 | 5.4% | 0 | 25 | 19 Apr 2021 |
| IPSOS (MARKET RESEARCH) LTD | 15 | 3.2% | 4 | 15 | 15 Jul 2026 |
| Improvement and Development Agency for Local Government | 10 | 2.1% | 5 | 10 | 18 Aug 2026 |
| Fresenius Kabi Limited | 8 | 1.7% | 0 | 8 | 6 Nov 2023 |
| Kuehne + Nagel Limited | 6 | 1.3% | 0 | 13 | 19 Oct 2023 |
| ACCORD-UK LTD | 6 | 1.3% | 0 | 6 | 7 Apr 2021 |
| INNOVA MEDICAL GROUP INC. | 6 | 1.3% | 0 | 6 | 9 Apr 2021 |
| Kent Pharma Ltd | 6 | 1.3% | 0 | 6 | 28 May 2021 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 11% of 467 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 359 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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| DHSC: Media Buying and Planning (FY26-27) | WPP plc | 18 Jun 2026 | 4 yrs | £244,700,000 ≈ £61m/yr |
| DHSC: CSA: NIHR Research Commissioning and Management Services Lot 6 | UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON | — | — | £89,056,782 † |
| DHSC: CSA: NIHR Research Commissioning and Management Services Lot 6 | LGC LIMITED | — | — | £88,802,511 † |
| DHSC: CSA: NIHR Research Commissioning and Management Services Lot 6 | LEEDS TEACHING HOSPITALS NHS TRUST | — | — | £41,369,111 † |
| DHSC: CSA: NIHR Research Commissioning and Management Services Lot 6 | UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON | — | — | £39,482,053 † |
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 · 150 of 615 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| SPSS Licenses | Crayon Limited | 30 Sept 2026 | £13,200 |
| DHSC:ASC International Comparators Research for The Casey Commission | Frontier Economics | 30 Sept 2026 | £57,400 |
| DHSC: ASC: International Comparators Research for The Casey Commission | The Nuffield Trust | 30 Sept 2026 | £57,400 |
| C396227 DHSC Audits of tobacco, vapes and other nicotine products available on the UK market | PSA Consultants Ltd | 1 Oct 2026 | £93,000 |
| Simplify & Deliver – corporate process improvement support | CANVS LTD | 20 Oct 2026 | £259,750 |
| DHSC: NHSPP: Thirlwall Inquiry Audio Visual Services | Radio Technical Services | 31 Oct 2026 | £52,056 |
| DHSC: Thirlwall Inquiry Media Support | Four Communications Limited | 31 Oct 2026 | £16,800 |
| DHSC - BHD prevention and leadership training | The King's Fund | 22 Jan 2027 | £523,532 |
| Publish Contract Details Notice | LGBT Foundation | 11 Feb 2027 | £125,000 |
| DHSC:PCP:Water Fluoridation Feasibility Studies Part 1 - AW | ANGLIAN WATER SERVICES LIMITED | 12 Feb 2027 | £295,680 |
Soonest 10 of 27 contracts ending within 18 months.
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 635 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 (£2.1bn, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 138 award records on 115 procedures (138 to a single canonical supplier, 0 multi-supplier). 106 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: 150 of 615 published contracts carry a period end; 27 end within 18 months, 13 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (4 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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