Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW): Contract Register & Procurement Profile

NHS ODS: SPECIAL HEALTH AUTHORITY (SPHA)Central governmentWales (Cymru)CardiffCentral purchasing body on 14 of 49 notices

Official UK PPONPRNH-7564-JLCQWebsitenwssp.nhs.wales ↗

Open now1next deadline 13 Oct 2026
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Tenders you can still bid for.

Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.

Notices, last 12 months29+45% vs prior 12 months (20)
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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 lot425.9% single-bid · 27 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 27 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

Top-3 supplier share35%of 48 awarded procedures · 79 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.

48 awarded tenders, 79 different suppliers.

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

All awards we hold.

Contracts ending ≤18 months121 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£28mnet · on 28 of 50 single-supplier awards · top 5 = 82%
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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

NoticeDeadlineDays leftPublished value
Clinical Assessment Skills (CAS) training for Pharmacist Prescribers3 lots13 Oct 202613d£100,000

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

80 Education and training services27 procedures · 55% · 1 open

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 · 49 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 69% (34 notices)
  • Framework 31% (15 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 45% (22 notices)
  • Open 41% (20 notices)
  • Route not published 12% (6 notices)
  • Limited / restricted 2% (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 27 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

4robust · n=2725.9% of lots drew a single bid
Deadline → award
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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 6 decided tenders across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

88 daysrobust · n=6
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 49 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

019 of 49 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 16 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months.

A past pattern, not a price to bid.

Last 24 months.

0% at estimaterobust · n=16

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
CARDIFF UNIVERSITYframework/DPS on 41122.9%9227 Jul 2026
Bangor Universityframework/DPS on 3714.6%6108 Jun 2026
Swansea Universityframework/DPS on 1510.4%31211 Sept 2026
Wrexham Universityframework/DPS on 348.3%478 Jun 2026
University of South Walesframework/DPS on 236.3%368 Jun 2026
BRIEF THERAPY UK LIMITED24.2%2219 May 2026
Queen's University Belfastframework/DPS on 124.2%1320 Feb 2025
Cardiff Metropolitan Universityframework/DPS on 124.2%128 Jun 2026

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 35% of 48 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 79 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.

£28mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 28 of 50 single-supplier awards; the five largest make 82%.
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.

£153k middle valuerobust · n=28Middle half £89k–£608k; 13 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
HEIW Provision of Clinical Psychology Education and Training Services North WalesBANGOR UNIVERISTY——£7,561,000 †
SPQ - General Practice NursingBangor University——£7,070,400 †
HEIW Provision of Clinical Psychology Education and Training Services South, West and Mid WalesCARDIFF UNIVERSITY——£5,796,000 †
SPQ - Community Childrens NursingUniversity of South Wales——£1,483,920 †
SPQ - Community Mental Health NursingBangor University——£1,382,400 †

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 · 44 of 94 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast

Soonest 10 of 12 contracts ending within 18 months.

Recent procedures

Latest 50 of 72 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
H0860 - Codi Project (Work Package 2)Awarded / complete9 Jan 2026—
Procurement for the Provision of Health Professional Education & Training Services South East Wales NursingEducation and training servicesOpen22 Dec 2025£34,461,000
OPTOMETRY EDUCATION FRAMEWORKFramework4 lotsEducation and training servicesAwarded / complete19 Dec 2025£1,440,000
H0840 - Provision of Critical Care Foundation Training for Pharmacy ProfessionalsAwarded / complete15 Dec 2025—
HEIW Provision of Independent, Supplementary and V150 Community Prescribing Education and TrainingFrameworkcentral purchasing body4 lotsEducation and training servicesAwarded / complete2 Dec 2025—
H0851 - Specialist Support for NHS Wales Leadership FrameworkFrameworkAwarded / complete1 Dec 2025—
Purchase of Articulate licences and add-ons for existing licencesAwarded / complete22 Oct 2025—
H0750 - FRAMEWORK FOR THE PROVISION OF PSYCHOMETRIC/ DIAGNOSTIC ASSESSMENTFramework5 lotsEducation and training servicesOpen15 Oct 2025£400,000
PILOTING HEALTHCARE SCIENCE INNOVATION FELLOWSHIP IN NHS WALESAwarded / complete29 Sept 2025—
Part Time Nursing Distance Learning Education & TrainingFrameworkEducation and training servicesPlanned4 Aug 2025£24,714,719
Optometry EducationAwarded / complete1 Aug 2025—
Strategic Workforce Modelling Support – Phase 2Awarded / complete1 Aug 2025—
Funded Pharmacy Undergraduate Placement Programme (August 2025 – August 2026)Awarded / complete28 Jul 2025—
Phase 2 - M365 Power Platform development and supportAwarded / complete8 Jul 2025—
Extension of Intrepid SystemAwarded / complete30 Jun 2025—
Higher Specialist Scientific Education & TrainingFrameworkEducation and training servicesPlanned23 May 2025—
Post Graduate Modules in Genomics Education & TrainingFrameworkEducation and training servicesPlanned23 May 2025—
HEIW Provision of Work Based Learning Qualification Developmentcentral purchasing bodyEducation and training servicesUnsuccessful8 May 2025—
Procurement for the provision of a Postgraduate Dental Education Framework Agreement RefreshFrameworkcentral purchasing body6 lotsEducation and training servicesOpen6 May 2025—
HEIW Provision of Ultrasound Education and Training Servicescentral purchasing bodyEducation and training servicesAwarded / complete27 Mar 2025£1,511,664

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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 (£38m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
  • Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 66 award records on 35 procedures (50 to a single canonical supplier, 15 multi-supplier, 1 with no supplier published). 19 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: 44 of 94 published contracts carry a period end; 12 end within 18 months, 1 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-46963GB-FTS-53158GB-FTS-82880GB-FTS-89083GB-NHS-T1530

Canonical page id: GB-PPON-PRNH-7564-JLCQ