National Institute for Health and Care Excellence: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

GOV.UK register: Executive non-departmental public bodyNHS ODS: OTHER STATUTORY AUTHORITY (OSA)Central governmentNorth West EnglandManchester

Official UK PPONPHZT-4273-LJQDWebsitenice.org.uk ↗

Open now0no live notices

Notices, last 12 months25+178% vs prior 12 months (9)

Top-3 supplier share8%of 218 awarded procedures · 183 suppliers

218 awarded tenders, 183 different suppliers.

Contracts ending ≤18 months8717 within 6 months · 52 estimated

Published award value, 24m£2.4mnet · on 27 of 27 published values · top 5 = 55%

What they buy
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Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each

79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting40 procedures · 118%

48 Software package and information systems15 procedures · 44%

72 IT services: consulting, software, internet11 procedures · 32%

22 Printed matter and related products6 procedures · 18%

80 Education and training services5 procedures · 15%

73 Research and development services3 procedures · 9%

30 Office and computing machinery1 procedure · 3%

50 Repair and maintenance services1 procedure · 3%

How they buy
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Last 24 months · 34 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim

Commercial tool

Contract94%(32 notices)
32 of 34 notices are Contract (94%).
Framework6%(2 notices)
2 of 34 notices are Framework (6%).

Procedure route

Direct award50%(17 notices)
17 of 34 notices are Direct award (50%).
Open29%(10 notices)
10 of 34 notices are Open (29%).
Limited / restricted15%(5 notices)
5 of 34 notices are Limited / restricted (15%).
Selective3%(1 notice)
1 of 34 notices is Selective (3%).
Route not published3%(1 notice)
1 of 34 notices is Route not published (3%).

Bids per lot, few lots

Based on 3 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Fewer than 5 lots: a median, not a typical figure.

6moderate · n=30% of lots drew a single bid

Deadline → award

Based on 3 decided tenders across all categories, last 24 months.

35 daysmoderate · n=3

Notice amendments

Based on 34 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

07 of 34 notices amended

Who wins here
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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
York Health Economics Consortium Limited	7	3.2%	3	7	18 Jun 2025
John Wiley & Sons Limited	5	2.3%	3	5	12 May 2025
CIVICA UK LIMITED	5	2.3%	0	5	23 Nov 2022
BJSS Limited	5	2.3%	0	5	1 Sept 2023
The MBS Group Limited	4	1.8%	3	4	30 Jan 2026
University of Exeterframework/DPS on 2	4	1.8%	2	4	31 Jul 2025
SALT RECRUITMENT GROUP LIMITED	3	1.4%	3	3	18 Dec 2024
Gifford Tanser Limited	3	1.4%	3	3	7 May 2025

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 8% of 218 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 183 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards, not a statement of preference.

Published award value (24m)

£2.4mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 27 of 27 published single-supplier values; the five largest make 55%.

Typical single-supplier award (24m)

£51k middle valuerobust · n=27Middle half £36k–£81k.

Largest published awards i	Supplier	Awarded	Term	Published value
Cochrane Library Content (Wiley Online Library use)	John Wiley & Sons Limited	—	2 yrs	£520,000 ≈ £260k/yr
NICE Conference 2027-29	Political Engagement Limited	—	3.3 yrs · up to 5.3 yrs	£300,000 † ≈ £92k/yr
CQI 2025-27	Institute for Healthcare Improvement	—	1.7 yrs	£249,447 † ≈ £150k/yr
Crucial conversations for mastering dialogue	Personal Strengths Publishing Ltd	—	9 mo	£124,800
SPS Medicines Horizon Scanning Service	Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (LUHFT)	—	5 mo	£120,000

Contracts ending
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255 of 264 contracts carry an end date, 57 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast

Contract	Holder	Ends	Published value
NICE Staff Event 2026	MANCHESTER OXFORD STREET HOTEL OPCO LTD	16 Nov 2026	£36,000
KnowBe4 Defend Phishing Licence	XMA Limited	31 Dec 2026	£25,383
EAG mini RUA	Coreva Scientific	31 Dec 2026	£99,440
NICE Board Effectiveness Review 2026	CANVS LTD	31 Dec 2026	£45,000
NICE Listens Dialogue AI Workshop	Ipsos MORI	26 Feb 2027	£132,213
VMWare + Horizon Licences	Phoenix Software Ltd	12 Mar 2027	£50,869
ESF DCT consensus support	Care City Innovation C.I.C	26 Mar 2027	£37,350
NICEFAHEE/2125 Call Off for Wiley supply: NCC collection	John Wiley & Sons Limited	31 Mar 2027	£1,436,175
NICE Future ways of working	Actica Consulting Ltd	31 Mar 2027	£187,163
NICEFAHEE/2125 Call Off for OVID supply: NCC collection	Wolters Kluwer Health (Medical Research) Limited	31 Mar 2027	£2,157,425

Soonest 10 of 87 contracts ending within 18 months.

Recent procedures

Latest 50 of 55 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement

Procedure	Status	Published	Published value
NICE Guidance Production Digitalisation ProjectIT services: consulting	Planned	10 Jan 2024	£7,000,000
Data Analyst and Data Tech ApprenticeshipsFrameworkEducation and training services	Awarded / complete	28 Dec 2023	—
MASS A1 Part 3IT services: consulting	Awarded / complete	2 Nov 2023	—
Clinical Knowledge SummariesResearch and development services and related consultancy services	Awarded / complete	21 Apr 2023	£1,323,000
BNF storage and distribution servicePrinting and distribution services	Awarded / complete	21 Apr 2023	£522,000
Cochrane Library SubscriptionPublications	Awarded / complete	21 Apr 2023	—
Specialist Mental Health Guideline Development Support UnitFrameworkResearch and development services and related consultancy services	Awarded / complete	21 Apr 2023	£10,069,002
NICE Technical Support UnitFramework2 lotsMiscellaneous health services	Open	17 Oct 2022	£690,000
Metadata management softwareMiscellaneous software package and computer systems	Open	7 Oct 2022	£156,000
Access and Identity management systemData services	Awarded / complete	16 Jun 2022	£850,000

Search all 55 procedures for this authority →

Contracts Finder adds 188 more procedures by this authority, mostly below the Find a Tender threshold or from before 2025. Each is counted once beside any Find a Tender copy; they are in the totals, not in this list or in search.

About this data

One profile per authority. Different spellings and registration numbers of the same body are merged into this profile. It includes tenders the authority ran for other bodies and tenders run on its behalf; spend is credited to the body that pays.
Values are published values. Award values are what the authority published, excluding VAT and framework ceilings. They are not a budget or total spend.
Contract end dates. 255 of 264 published contracts have an end date; 57 of those are estimated as the signature (or publication) date plus the published duration and are marked “estimated”. They feed “Contracts ending”, the same rule as the retender radar. Published values in that list come from either source; Contracts Finder figures are shown as published and stay out of this profile’s money totals.
Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender and Contracts Finder), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0, updated through the day and rebuilt nightly. Not every figure uses both feeds, and each one shows how many records it rests on: see the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.