NHS Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes Integrated Care Board: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
NHS ODS: STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP·Central government·East of England·Bedfordshire
Official UK PPONPGZZ-7781-GJXGWebsitebedfordshirelutonandmiltonkeynes.icb.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 8 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.
70 awarded tenders, 55 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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| CHC Nursing Home Beds Preferred Provider List- NHS Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes ICB | 28 Mar 2030 | 1275d | — |
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 services60 procedures · 90%48 Software package and information systems1 procedures · 1%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting1 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 75% (50 notices)
- Open 10% (7 notices)
- Direct award 7% (5 notices)
- Route not published 7% (5 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 8 lots from this buyer’s competitions, 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 67 notices across all categories, last 24 months.
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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| Age UK | 4 | 5.7% | 4 | 4 | 13 Mar 2026 |
| Watling Street Practice | 3 | 4.3% | 3 | 3 | 1 Sept 2025 |
| Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust | 3 | 4.3% | 3 | 3 | 1 Sept 2025 |
| East London NHS Foundation Trust | 3 | 4.3% | 2 | 3 | 13 Mar 2026 |
| DHU Healthcare | 2 | 2.9% | 2 | 2 | 26 Aug 2026 |
| The British Red Cross | 2 | 2.9% | 2 | 2 | 13 Mar 2026 |
| Age Concern Luton | 2 | 2.9% | 2 | 2 | 13 Mar 2026 |
| AJM Healthcare | 2 | 2.9% | 2 | 2 | 13 Mar 2026 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 14% of 70 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 55 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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| 0-19 and Children's Community Services in Bedford Borough, Central Bedfordshire and Luton Local Authority Areas | Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust | — | — | £326,890,622 † |
| CNWL Mental Health and Community Health Services | Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust | — | — | £305,227,657 † |
| BLMK ICB Mental Health Services - Adults & CAMHS | East London NHS Foundation Trust | — | — | £280,271,138 † |
| Community Services for Bedfordshire and Luton | Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust | — | — | £163,067,382 † |
| Community MSK Service in BLMK | Connect Health Ltd | — | — | £120,197,800 † |
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 · 6 of 75 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| 2076 Contract Details Notice - Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training for NHS BLMK | Autism Bedfordshire | 30 Sept 2026 | £78,823 |
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 86 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 (£267m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 65 award records on 60 procedures (65 to a single canonical supplier, 0 multi-supplier). 53 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: 6 of 75 published contracts carry a period end; 1 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.
Canonical page id: GB-PPON-PGZZ-7781-GJXG