KENT COMMUNITY HEALTH NHS FOUNDATION TRUST: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
NHS ODS: NHS TRUST·Central government·South East England·ASHFORD
Official UK PPONPHVC-1716-LBDJWebsitekentcht.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 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 5 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.
72 awarded tenders, 146 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 |
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| Provision of Commercial Removals and Associated Services | 23 Oct 2026 | 23d | £602,052 |
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 services21 procedures · 31%45 Construction work3 procedures · 4%33 Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals2 procedures · 3%51 Installation services (except software)2 procedures · 3%63 Supporting and auxiliary transport; travel1 procedures · 1% · 1 open98 Other community, social and personal services1 procedures · 1% · 1 open42 Industrial machinery1 procedures · 1%48 Software package and information systems1 procedures · 1%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 · 67 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 100% (67 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.
- Limited / restricted 57% (38 notices)
- Direct award 21% (14 notices)
- Open 13% (9 notices)
- Route not published 9% (6 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 5 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 4 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 69 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 3 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months. Small sample.
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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| Kent Dentures Ltd | 3 | 4.2% | 3 | 3 | 1 May 2026 |
| Academia Ltd | 3 | 4.2% | 3 | 3 | 16 Jun 2026 |
| THE WELLBEING COLLECTIVE LTD | 3 | 4.2% | 3 | 3 | 26 Nov 2025 |
| East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust | 2 | 2.8% | 2 | 5 | 26 Feb 2026 |
| Boots UK Ltd | 2 | 2.8% | 2 | 2 | 25 Sept 2026 |
| Delmergate Limited | 2 | 2.8% | 2 | 2 | 25 Sept 2026 |
| Butt & Hobbs Limited | 2 | 2.8% | 2 | 2 | 25 Sept 2026 |
| PLINTH MEDICAL LIMITED | 2 | 2.8% | 2 | 2 | 20 Jul 2026 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 13% of 72 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 146 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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| PSR - Direct Award C - Provision of Adult and Children's Community Services | HCRG Care Services Limited | — | — | £174,473,280 † |
| Adult and Children's Community Services - Medway and Swale | Medway Community Healthcare CIC | — | — | £169,257,960 † |
| Contract for the Provision of a Pathology Service | East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust | — | — | £3,804,531 † |
| Sub-contract for the Provision of Clinical Services | Channel Health Alliance Limited | — | — | £3,389,952 † |
| Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) services - Kent & Medway Assistive Technology (KMCAT) | East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust | — | — | £1,554,963 † |
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 · 46 of 79 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Adios and Refine Annual Licences | Rx Info Ltd | 30 Nov 2026 | £10,500 |
| Medical device | Eureka Physiocare Ltd | 1 Jan 2027 | £27,380 |
| Acrobat Pro for enterprise | Academia Ltd | 5 Jan 2027 | £14,350 |
| MICROSMART 035060 SUCTION PUMP and 35115 TURBOSMART A - SUCTION PUMP | Cattani Esam Uk Ltd | 22 Jan 2027 | £30,208 |
| Immediate Life Support and Paediatric Immediate Life Support training | A to E Training & Solutions.co.uk | 31 Mar 2027 | £77,631 |
| For delivery of meals to Facilities, Edenbridge Memorial Health Centre | APETITO LIMITED | 31 Mar 2027 | £12,000 |
| Olive McGowan Training sessions | Runway Apprenticeships Limited | 31 Mar 2027 | £23,100 |
| MSC Health Professionals Education Training | UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON T/A UCL | 31 Aug 2027 | £13,500 |
| MSC Health Professionals Education Training | UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON T/A UCL | 31 Aug 2027 | £13,500 |
| Organisational Development Culture Change Programme for Community Hospitals | THE WELLBEING COLLECTIVE LTD | 9 Nov 2027 | £25,000 |
Soonest 10 of 13 contracts ending within 18 months.
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 85 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 (£79m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 69 award records on 60 procedures (67 to a single canonical supplier, 2 multi-supplier). 60 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: 46 of 79 published contracts carry a period end; 13 end within 18 months, 4 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (12 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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