NHS Blood and Transplant: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

GOV.UK register: Special health authorityNHS ODS: SPECIAL HEALTH AUTHORITY (SPHA)NHS & healthSouth West EnglandBristol

Official UK PPONPDBY-6395-VWBPWebsitenhsbt.nhs.uk ↗

Open now3next deadline 17 Nov 2026

Notices, last 12 months91-16% vs prior 12 months (108)

Typical bids per lot245% single-bid · median of 20 lots

Based on 20 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Top-3 supplier share6%of 499 awarded procedures · 357 suppliers

499 awarded tenders, 357 different suppliers.

Contracts ending ≤18 months14348 within 6 months · 13 estimated

Published award value, 24m£227mnet · on 70 of 83 published values · 13 repeated amounts set aside · top 5 = 79%

Open notices

3 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build

Notice	Deadline	Days left	Published value
Executive Team development and coaching	17 Nov 2026	2d	£600,000
ATMP/IMP Courier Service for NHSBT	23 Nov 2026	8d	£300,000
Radiation Protection Advisory ServiceFramework	4 Dec 2026	19d	£433,382

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

33 Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals100 procedures · 50%

72 IT services: consulting, software, internet58 procedures · 29%

79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting36 procedures · 18% · 1 open

48 Software package and information systems23 procedures · 12%

50 Repair and maintenance services21 procedures · 11%

90 Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental14 procedures · 7% · 1 open

71 Architectural, construction, engineering10 procedures · 5%

39 Furniture, furnishings, domestic appliances8 procedures · 4%

How they buy
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Last 24 months · 199 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim

Commercial tool

Contract74%(148 notices)
148 of 199 notices are Contract (74%).
Framework23%(46 notices)
46 of 199 notices are Framework (23%).
Dynamic purchasing system3%(5 notices)
5 of 199 notices are Dynamic purchasing system (3%).

Procedure route

Route not published34%(67 notices)
67 of 199 notices are Route not published (34%).
Open27%(54 notices)
54 of 199 notices are Open (27%).
Limited / restricted22%(44 notices)
44 of 199 notices are Limited / restricted (22%).
Direct award14%(28 notices)
28 of 199 notices are Direct award (14%).
Selective3%(6 notices)
6 of 199 notices are Selective (3%).

Typical bids per lot

Based on 20 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

2robust · n=2045% of lots drew a single bid

Deadline → award

Based on 27 decided tenders across all categories, last 24 months.

74 daysrobust · n=27

Notice amendments

Based on 199 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

051 of 199 notices amended

Award vs estimate

Based on 4 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months. Small sample.

0% at estimatemoderate · n=4

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
Softcat Plc	14	2.8%	6	14	6 Aug 2026
MacoPharma UK Limitedframework/DPS on 3	8	1.6%	3	10	20 Feb 2026
Specialist Computer Centres Plc	7	1.4%	4	7	31 Jul 2026
Terumo BCT Europe NVframework/DPS on 3	6	1.2%	3	8	20 Oct 2026
Alpha Laboratories Limitedframework/DPS on 1	6	1.2%	3	6	7 Aug 2026
VH Bio Ltdframework/DPS on 4	6	1.2%	1	10	11 Dec 2025
Fresenius Kabi Limitedframework/DPS on 2	6	1.2%	1	8	24 Nov 2025
Dawsongroupframework/DPS on 1	6	1.2%	0	6	16 Feb 2022

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 6% of 499 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 357 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards, not a statement of preference.

Published award value (24m)

£227mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 70 of 83 published single-supplier values; the five largest make 79%.

Typical single-supplier award (24m)

£223k middle valuerobust · n=70Middle half £76k–£1.1m; 13 awards with ambiguous equal values within a procedure excluded from both figures.

Largest published awards i	Supplier	Awarded	Term	Published value
Organ Donation Transportation	IMT MEDICAL TRANSPORT LIMITED	—	6 yrs	£113,000,000 † ≈ £19m/yr
Microbiology & Serology Testing - Contract A	Abbott Laboratories Limited	—	—	£28,565,218 †
National Contact Centre	Arvato Limited	25 Jun 2026	5 yrs · up to 7 yrs	£22,802,580 ≈ £4.6m/yr
Support of existing NHSBT owned Extracorporeal Photopheresis (ECP) Systems	Therakos (UK), Ltd	—	—	£8,000,000 †
Hematos Licencing, Support and Maintenance Services	Savant Ltd	—	—	£7,870,000 †

Contracts ending
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559 of 658 contracts carry an end date, 107 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast

Contract	Holder	Ends	Published value
Sunderland Donor Centre Design	MORGAN SINDALL CONSTRUCTION & INFRASTRUCTURE LTD	16 Nov 2026	£156,703
SUPPLY OF SINGLE USE (DISPOSABLE) SAW HEADPIECES	KAISER MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY LIMITED	30 Nov 2026	£245,455
Improvement to the Manufacturing Suite at CBC	Enbloc	1 Dec 2026	£54,573
Support of existing NHSBT owned Multi-functional Apheresis Systems	Terumo BCT Europe NV	3 Dec 2026 estimated	£5,000,000
Supply of Copper Sulphate Solution	VWR International Ltd	10 Dec 2026	£700,000 ceiling
Supply of Copper Sulphate Solution	VWR International Ltd	10 Dec 2026	£1,050,000 ceiling
Firewall Managed Service	Softcat Plc	28 Dec 2026	£2,081,473
Quality Management System - QPulse SaaS Transition	Ideagen Gael Ltd	31 Dec 2026	£211,936
Framework Agreement for the supply of tube sealers, PPM and repair services	AB Scientific Limited	10 Jan 2027	£1,946,327 ceiling
Specialist Test Services	Edge Testing Solutions Limited	14 Jan 2027	£1,250,000

Soonest 10 of 143 contracts ending within 18 months.

Recent procedures

Latest 50 of 406 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement

Procedure	Status	Published	Published value
National Contact CentreCall centre	Awarded / complete	3 Jul 2026	£40,000,000
Clean Room RequalificationTechnical inspection and testing services	Planning	29 Jun 2026	£80,000
Supply of Bacterial Gene Detection and SequencingDPSMedical consumables	Awarded / complete	23 Jun 2026	£200,000
Supply of Consumables for BD Flow CytometersMedical consumables	Awarded / complete	22 Jun 2026	—
Mobile EV Charger	Awarded / complete	19 Jun 2026	—
Manual Handling Training	Awarded / complete	17 Jun 2026	—
Lease Car Insurance Brokerage ServicesVehicle-fleet-support services	Awarded / complete	12 Jun 2026	—

Search all 406 procedures for this authority →

Contracts Finder adds 369 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. 559 of 658 published contracts have an end date; 107 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.