NHS Education for Scotland: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

NHS & healthScotlandEDINBURGHCentral purchasing body on 6 of 20 notices

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Open now0no live notices
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Tenders you can still bid for.

Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed, counted the way the search counts them: a notice shows under every code and region it names.

Notices, last 12 months4-75% vs prior 12 months (16)
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Notices published in the last 12 months.

Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.

Typical bids per lot153.8% single-bid · 13 bid reports
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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 13 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

Top-3 supplier share21%of 71 awarded procedures · 101 suppliers
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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.

71 awarded tenders, 101 different suppliers.

Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.

All awards we hold.

Contracts ending ≤18 months1none within 6 months
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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.

An end date does not confirm a new procurement.

Published award value, 24m£3.2mnet · on 10 of 10 published values · top 5 = 78%
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.

Sum of published VAT-exclusive awards to single suppliers, last 24 months. Left out: concession revenue, framework ceilings, repeated notices, equal-value duplicates.

Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.

What they buy
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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

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

Commercial tool
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How work here is packaged.

Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.

  • Contract85%(17 notices)
    17 of 20 notices are Contract (85%).
  • Framework15%(3 notices)
    3 of 20 notices are Framework (15%).
Procedure route
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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.

  • Open75%(15 notices)
    15 of 20 notices are Open (75%).
  • Limited / restricted15%(3 notices)
    3 of 20 notices are Limited / restricted (15%).
  • Selective10%(2 notices)
    2 of 20 notices are Selective (10%).
Typical bids per lot
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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 13 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

1robust · n=1353.8% of lots drew a single bid
Notice amendments
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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 20 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

117 of 20 notices amended

Who wins here
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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

SupplierProceduresShareLast 24mAward recordsLast activity
University of Dundee68.5%18—
Glasgow Caledonian University57%17—
The University of Edinburgh45.6%17—
Interact Roleplayframework/DPS on 234.2%35—
Human Development Scotland34.2%13—
Christine Hamilton Consulting Ltdframework/DPS on 134.2%13—
HAAG STREIT UK LTD34.2%13—
PHS Pro-Motionframework/DPS on 122.8%23—

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 21% of 71 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 101 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards, not a statement of preference.

Published award value (24m)
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.

Sum of published VAT-exclusive awards to single suppliers, last 24 months. Left out: concession revenue, framework ceilings, repeated notices, equal-value duplicates.

Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.

£3.2mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 10 of 10 published single-supplier values; the five largest make 78%.
Typical single-supplier award (24m)
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The middle published award value for this buyer.

Middle value of the same awards as the total above.

Last 24 months.

£338k middle valuerobust · n=10Middle half £111k–£415k.

Contracts ending
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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.

An end date does not confirm a new procurement.

Published end dates only · 14 of 106 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast

Recent procedures

Latest 50 of 91 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
W002186 Medical Simulation Training CoursesOther communityAwarded / complete4 Mar 2025—
W002181 Independent Prescribing for Optometrists – Postgraduate Ocular Therapeutics (Part-Time Course)Education and training servicesAwarded / complete4 Mar 2025—
C002086 - National Clinical Skills Training for Pharmacistscentral purchasing bodyEducation and training servicesAwarded / complete21 Jan 2025—
C002085 - Delivery of an educational programme in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy to Doctorate level (SCQF Level 12 or equivalent)central purchasing bodyEducation and training servicesAwarded / complete13 Jan 2025—
C002103 Pre-Hospital Care Training and Education for Remote and Rural Practitioners using SimulationEducation and training servicesOpen4 Dec 2024—
W002193 Continued Provision of Actors for various directorates in NESEducation and training servicesCancelled6 Nov 2024—
C002069 Return to Practice (RtP)central purchasing body2 lotsEducation and training servicesAwarded / complete20 Sept 2024—
C002093 NES Coach Frameworks Supplier Information EventCoaching servicesPlanned18 Sept 2024—
C002063 - Pharmacy post-registration academic modules for Clinical Decision Making, Advanced Clinical Examination Skills (ACE Courses) and Research.central purchasing body3 lotsEducation and training servicesUnsuccessful18 Sept 2024—
C002040 Cataract Surgery Simulatorcentral purchasing bodyMedical equipmentsAwarded / complete4 Sept 2024—
C002073 Provision of Professional Coaching Frameworkcentral purchasing bodyCoaching servicesAwarded / complete2 Sept 2024—
C002077 Provision of Executive Coachingcentral purchasing bodyCoaching servicesPlanned2 May 2024—
C002070 - Delivery of Level 4 Group Triple P Training and provision of associated materialscentral purchasing bodyEducation and training servicesAwarded / complete8 Apr 2024—
C002043 NES Lead AdvisorBuilding consultancy servicesAwarded / complete28 Mar 2024—
C001962 Medical Simulation Courses for Trainees9 lotsEducation and training servicesAwarded / complete20 Mar 2024—
C002028 ONLINE PLATFORM FOR MANAGING COACHING AND MENTORING SERVICES ACCESSIBLE TO ALL WHO WORK IN HEALTH SOCIAL CARE AND SOCIAL WORK IN SCOTLANDCoaching servicesAwarded / complete20 Mar 2024£250,000
C002039 The Framework for NHS Scotland Executive Coaching RegisterFrameworkEducation and training servicesAwarded / complete13 Mar 2024—
C002059 NHS Scotland Management Training Scheme (MTS): Provision of online psychometrics and assessment to support the recruitment process of graduate-level applicantsAssessment centre services for recruitmentCancelled28 Feb 2024—
C002021 PEN TestingFrameworkTechnical testingAwarded / complete7 Feb 2024—
C002034 - Delivery of training in Autism Diagnostic Observation Scale – 2nd edition (ADOS-2) for NHS staff from a range of disciplines working in Scottish services across the lifespan.central purchasing bodyEducation and training servicesAwarded / complete6 Feb 2024—

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About this data
  • Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
  • 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. 14 of 106 published contracts state an end date; those feed “Contracts ending”.
  • Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.