Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
NHS ODS: NHS TRUST·Central government·North West England·Crewe
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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.
97 awarded tenders, 78 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 services45 procedures · 43%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting6 procedures · 6%48 Software package and information systems3 procedures · 3%71 Architectural, construction, engineering2 procedures · 2%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet2 procedures · 2%15 Food, drink, tobacco1 procedures · 1%30 Office and computing machinery1 procedures · 1%32 Radio, television, communication1 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 · 105 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 96% (101 notices)
- Framework 4% (4 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 44% (46 notices)
- Direct award 39% (41 notices)
- Route not published 9% (9 notices)
- Open 8% (8 notices)
- Selective 1% (1 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 105 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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| Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust | 4 | 4.1% | 4 | 4 | 16 Mar 2026 |
| Dermwise Limited | 3 | 3.1% | 3 | 3 | 24 Sept 2026 |
| Nuffield Health | 3 | 3.1% | 3 | 3 | 2 Mar 2026 |
| Cheshire Medical Imaging LLP | 2 | 2.1% | 2 | 3 | 23 Jun 2026 |
| East Cheshire Hospice | 2 | 2.1% | 2 | 2 | 16 Mar 2026 |
| 4ways Healthcare Ltd | 2 | 2.1% | 2 | 2 | 1 Jul 2025 |
| Primary Eyecare Services | 2 | 2.1% | 2 | 2 | 18 Jun 2026 |
| Darkhorse Design Ltd | 2 | 2.1% | 2 | 2 | 23 Oct 2025 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 10% of 97 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 78 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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| Palliative Care in Partnership - East | East Cheshire Hospice | — | — | £4,803,072 † |
| Palliative Care in Partnership - West | Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust | — | — | £4,803,072 † |
| Delivery Ready Prepared Meals 2024 | APETITO LIMITED | — | — | £1,039,542 † |
| Radiology Reporting | Cheshire Medical Imaging LLP | — | — | £989,282 † |
| Energy Centre for New Hospital | Scottish Power | — | 1.8 yrs | £600,000 † ≈ £327k/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 · 53 of 101 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Engineer advice for Decontamination services | Test Limited | 30 Sept 2026 | £36,612 |
| Specialist advice and Mentoring | LSN Healthcare | 30 Sept 2026 | £25,000 |
| SSD Traceability System | Athera Healthcare Ltd | 30 Oct 2026 | £17,051 |
| Energy Centre for new Leighton Hospital | Scottish Power, SP Manweb | 10 Jan 2027 | £600,000 |
| Energy Centre for New Leighton Hospital | Scottish Power | 10 Jan 2027 | £600,000 |
| Engineer Services for Lifts | Vertica Consulting | 31 Mar 2027 | £22,468 |
| Water Hygiene Services - Authorised Engineer | Paul Nolan Water Hygiene | 31 Mar 2027 | £63,516 |
| Fire Safety Services - Authorised Engineer | Fire Safety Partnership | 31 Mar 2027 | £43,750 |
| Engineer advice for Pressure systems | Medical Engineering Systems Ltd | 31 Mar 2027 | £31,275 |
| Rental of 3 Large Billboards | Trotter UK Mobile Billboards Ltd | 23 Jun 2027 | £17,625 |
Soonest 10 of 14 contracts ending within 18 months.
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 107 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| Belvan Software Licence | Awarded / complete | 20 Nov 2025 | — |
| End of Life Training | Awarded / complete | 20 Nov 2025 | — |
| Provision of Debt Collection Fees | Awarded / complete | 20 Nov 2025 | — |
| Fall Monitor | Awarded / complete | 20 Nov 2025 | — |
| Grounds Maintenance | Awarded / complete | 20 Nov 2025 | — |
| Engineer advice for Decontamination services | Awarded / complete | 10 Nov 2025 | — |
| Engineer Services for Ventilation Systems | Awarded / complete | 7 Nov 2025 | — |
| Videography & Photography Services | Awarded / complete | 7 Nov 2025 | — |
| Communications & Marketing Programme - Healthier FuturesAdvertising and marketing services | Awarded / complete | 23 Oct 2025 | £167,000 |
| Thermal Energy Testing | Awarded / complete | 16 Oct 2025 | — |
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 (£6.1m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 100 award records on 96 procedures (99 to a single canonical supplier, 1 multi-supplier). 92 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: 53 of 101 published contracts carry a period end; 14 end within 18 months, 5 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (8 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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