Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospital NHS Trust: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
NHS ODS: NHS TRUST·Central government·North West England·Prescot
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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 3 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.
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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.
190 awarded tenders, 157 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.
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 services17 procedures · 9%44 Construction structures and materials4 procedures · 2%33 Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals2 procedures · 1%45 Construction work2 procedures · 1%48 Software package and information systems2 procedures · 1%60 Transport services (except waste transport)2 procedures · 1%09 Petroleum, coal, oil and gas1 procedures · 1%38 Laboratory, optical and precision1 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 · 198 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% (198 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 58% (115 notices)
- Direct award 29% (58 notices)
- Limited / restricted 9% (17 notices)
- Open 4% (8 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 3 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.
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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 198 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 2 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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| Mast Group Ltd | 3 | 1.6% | 3 | 3 | 24 Jun 2026 |
| Laborie Medical Technologies UK | 3 | 1.6% | 3 | 3 | 11 Jun 2026 |
| BODY & MIND UNLIMITED | 3 | 1.6% | 3 | 3 | 14 Nov 2025 |
| Breas Medical Ltd | 3 | 1.6% | 3 | 3 | 21 Jan 2026 |
| Leviathan Consulting Ltd. | 3 | 1.6% | 3 | 3 | 1 Sept 2026 |
| Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | 3 | 1.6% | 3 | 3 | 12 May 2026 |
| Haemonetics Ltd | 3 | 1.6% | 3 | 3 | 16 Sept 2026 |
| Diagnostic Healthcare Ltd | 2 | 1.1% | 2 | 3 | 14 Sept 2026 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 5% of 190 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 157 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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| Provision of a Pharmaceutical Dispensing Service | L. ROWLAND & COMPANY (RETAIL) LIMITED | — | — | £2,071,603 † |
| Insourcing of Clinical Support Services | Atlas Diagnostics Ltd | — | — | £1,150,000 † |
| Provision of Sports Exercise Medicine Services | Mersey Sports Medicine Ltd | — | — | £483,750 † |
| Automated Slide Preparation System | Axlab Ltd. | — | — | £420,000 † |
| Microbiology Services for Referred Microbiology, Virology and Serological Investigations | UK Health Security Agency(Manchester University NHS FT | — | — | £310,677 † |
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 · 168 of 190 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Lung Function machine Service Contract | Medical Graphics UK LTD | 30 Sept 2026 | £10,013 |
| Project Management Support | NHS Midlands and Lancashire CSU | 30 Sept 2026 | £81,900 |
| Ward Furniture | Renray Healthcare | 30 Sept 2026 | £10,067 |
| MightyStat Pulse Oximeters | Masimo Europe Ltd | 3 Oct 2026 | £18,540 |
| Fire Alarm System & Access Works | Hesis Ltd | 13 Oct 2026 | £11,274 |
| UPS Unit Replacement | Bender UK Ltd | 26 Oct 2026 | £17,790 |
| Pathology laboratory printed labels/barcodes for patient samples | Midco Print and Packaging Ltd | 29 Oct 2026 | £10,530 |
| Authorising Engineer Services Mechanical & Confined Spaces | Sodexo Limited | 31 Oct 2026 | £12,055 |
| Endoscope Decontamination Equipment Service, Test, and Validation Contract | iM-Med Limited | 31 Oct 2026 | £162,115 |
| Ascom Solution Life-Cycle Plan | Ascom (UK) Ltd | 31 Oct 2026 | £24,053 |
Soonest 10 of 79 contracts ending within 18 months.
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 205 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| Provision of a Pharmaceutical Dispensing ServicePharmacy services | Awarded / complete | 31 Jul 2026 | £1,500,000 |
| Authorising Engineer (Decontamination) Services | Awarded / complete | 31 Jul 2026 | — |
| UPS Remedial Works | Awarded / complete | 31 Jul 2026 | — |
| UPS Unit Replacement | Awarded / complete | 30 Jul 2026 | — |
| Vehicle Repairs & Parts | Awarded / complete | 30 Jul 2026 | — |
| Occupational Health Physicians | Awarded / complete | 23 Jul 2026 | — |
| NMAHP Professional Development Workshops | Awarded / complete | 23 Jul 2026 | — |
| Capital - Vbeam Pro Laser System | Awarded / complete | 20 Jul 2026 | — |
| Cardiac Catheter LaboratoryCardiac support devices | Planning | 16 Jul 2026 | — |
| Taxi ServicesTaxi services | Planned | 16 Jul 2026 | £180,000 |
| Waste Collection Ormskirk Hospital | Awarded / complete | 15 Jul 2026 | — |
| EPOC Instruments and Accessories | Awarded / complete | 14 Jul 2026 | — |
| MediSIGHT Support - Southport & Ormskirk | Awarded / complete | 2 Jul 2026 | — |
| JAG/IHEEM Service Contract - Whiston only | Awarded / complete | 2 Jul 2026 | — |
| BirthRate Plus Workforce Planning | Awarded / complete | 1 Jul 2026 | — |
| OC Sensor PLEDIA RR and Maintenance 2026-27 | Awarded / complete | 24 Jun 2026 | — |
| Product development and Licencing Annual Support | Awarded / complete | 11 Jun 2026 | — |
| Multitone System Maintenance | Awarded / complete | 11 Jun 2026 | — |
| Softcat F5 Software Support | Awarded / complete | 11 Jun 2026 | — |
| Catheters | Awarded / complete | 11 Jun 2026 | — |
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 (£4.0m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 189 award records on 185 procedures (189 to a single canonical supplier, 0 multi-supplier). 171 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: 168 of 190 published contracts carry a period end; 79 end within 18 months, 28 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (6 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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