NHS KENT AND MEDWAY INTEGRATED CARE BOARD: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
Central government·South East England·Maidstone
Official UK PPONPHGM-8136-GWTX
Open now0no live noticesNotices, last 12 months54+116% vs prior 12 months (25)Typical bids per lot241.7% single-bid · 12 bid reportsTop-3 supplier share15%of 78 awarded procedures · 116 suppliersContracts ending ≤18 months61 within 6 monthsPublished award value, 24m£5.4bnnet · on 56 of 82 single-supplier awards · top 5 = 60%
What they buy
Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each
85 Health and social work services57 procedures · 72%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet7 procedures · 9%48 Software package and information systems2 procedures · 3%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting2 procedures · 3%30 Office and computing machinery1 procedures · 1%31 Electrical machinery1 procedures · 1%32 Radio, television, communication1 procedures · 1%34 Transport equipment and products1 procedures · 1%How they buy
Last 24 months · 79 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim
Commercial tool
- Contract 97% (77 notices)
- Framework 3% (2 notices)
Procedure route
- Limited / restricted 58% (46 notices)
- Route not published 19% (15 notices)
- Direct award 11% (9 notices)
- Open 11% (9 notices)
Typical bids per lot2robust · n=12Median of published bid counts per lot on contested contract notices · 41.7% of lots drew a single bid. Direct awards and framework / DPS lots are left out — vehicles draw a different crowd.
Notice amendments0Median amendments per notice · 19 of 79 notices amended.
Award vs estimate0.4% below estimaterobust · n=10Median (estimate − award) / estimate on single-supplier GBP pairs per lot, same VAT basis on both sides; vehicles excluded. Negative = awarded above estimate.
Who wins here
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whitstable Medical Practice | 11 | 14.1% | 1 | 11 | 26 Sept 2025 |
| Kingsnorth Medical Practice | 6 | 7.7% | 1 | 6 | 26 Sept 2025 |
| Newton Place Surgery | 4 | 5.1% | 0 | 4 | 4 Jul 2024 |
| Northgate Medical Practice | 4 | 5.1% | 0 | 4 | 4 Jul 2024 |
| Stoke Association | 3 | 3.8% | 3 | 3 | 5 Feb 2026 |
| Memorial Medical Centre | 3 | 3.8% | 1 | 3 | 26 Sept 2025 |
| Canterbury Medical Centre | 3 | 3.8% | 0 | 3 | 4 Jul 2024 |
| Charing Surgery | 3 | 3.8% | 0 | 3 | 4 Jul 2024 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 15% of 78 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 116 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards — not a statement of preference.
Published award value (24m)£5.4bnSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 56 of 82 single-supplier awards; the five largest make 60%. Not spend and not a budget: notices sometimes republish a framework total or a mis-scaled figure — the largest rows are listed below so you can check.
Typical single-supplier award (24m)£486k medianrobust · n=56Middle half £118k–£57m; 21 duplicate amounts excluded from both figures (heuristic for republished framework ceilings).
| Largest published awards | Supplier | Awarded | Term | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acute Services | East Kent Hospital Foundation Trust | — | — | £791,892,598 † |
| Acute Services | East Kent Hospital Foundation Trust | — | — | £762,162,152 † |
| Adult Community Services East Kent | Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust | — | — | £684,918,560 † |
| Acute Services | Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust | — | — | £576,735,804 † |
| Acute services | MEDWAY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST | — | — | £403,619,912 † |
Contracts ending
Published end dates only · 12 of 176 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| GP Wifi | Spark TSL | 6 Mar 2027 | £50,342 |
| Doris - West Kent GP Digital Referral and Knowledge Management | DORIS RESOURCES LLP | 31 Mar 2027 | £136,371 |
| Prescqipp Kent and Medway Subscription | PRESCQIPP C.I.C. | 31 Mar 2027 | £52,256 |
| Zenon -Executive Team Coaching Programme | Zenon Consulting Ltd | 18 Apr 2027 | £70,141 |
| CoordinateRx | FIRST DATABANK UK LTD | 30 Jun 2027 | £122,386 |
| BestPathway Hosting | DXS INTERNATIONAL PLC | 30 Sept 2027 | £31,689 |
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 112 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kent & Medway Adult Mental Health Conveyance Service Market Engagement 1-1sHealth services | Planned | 16 Apr 2026 | £6,000,000 |
| MCH - Adult Community Services (Out of Scope)Health services | Awarded / complete | 15 Apr 2026 | — |
| Crisis Recovery House in MedwayResidential health facilities services | Open | 15 Apr 2026 | £3,000,000 |
| GP Wifi | Awarded / complete | 8 Apr 2026 | — |
| My M Health Digital HubHealth services | Awarded / complete | 8 Apr 2026 | — |
| Non-emergency Patient Transport Service for Kent & MedwayHealth services | Awarded / complete | 1 Apr 2026 | £213,448,424 |
| Autism Diagnostic AssessmentHealth services | Awarded / complete | 12 Mar 2026 | — |
| ADHD diagnostic assessment, prescribing & titrationHealth services | Awarded / complete | 12 Mar 2026 | — |
| Kent Children & Young People's Core Therapeutic AllianceHealth services | Awarded / complete | 11 Feb 2026 | £55,303,703 |
| ADHD diagnostic assessment, prescribing & titrationHealth services | Awarded / complete | 11 Feb 2026 | — |
| K & M Adult Mental Health Conveyance Service and s136 Sit and Wait ServiceHealth services | Planned | 11 Feb 2026 | £6,300,000 |
| Zenon -Executive Team Coaching Programme | Awarded / complete | 11 Feb 2026 | — |
| Mental Health - Primary Care MH WorkersHealth services | Awarded / complete | 5 Feb 2026 | — |
| Stroke Services for West KentHealth services | Awarded / complete | 5 Feb 2026 | — |
| Creative arts therapy and psychoeducational workshops for UASCHealth services | Awarded / complete | 5 Feb 2026 | — |
| Stroke Service for DGSHealth services | Awarded / complete | 5 Feb 2026 | — |
| DGS SMI Physical Health ChecksHealth services | Awarded / complete | 5 Feb 2026 | — |
| Stroke Service Medway & SwaleHealth services | Awarded / complete | 5 Feb 2026 | — |
| Diversity Culture Assessment extensionBusiness and management consultancy and related services | Awarded / complete | 3 Feb 2026 | — |
| NHS ICB SE Region - GP and Corporate IT Optimisation ProgrammeAccumulators | Withdrawn | 3 Feb 2026 | £100,000,000 |
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 (£727m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 82 award records on 63 procedures (82 to a single canonical supplier, 0 multi-supplier). Typical award uses single-supplier VAT-exclusive GBP values below £5bn, excludes framework/DPS ceilings and — as a heuristic for republished framework totals — any amount repeated three or more times inside this authority’s 24-month awards; 56 values come from the contract record when the award carried none.
- Bid counts (per lot, contested notices only, PA 2023 final-stage tenders where published), deadline-to-award and amendments come from the nightly buyer analytics row (v8, award-identity grain). Evidence tiers: robust ≥5, moderate 3–4, indicative 1–2.
- Contract end dates: 12 of 176 published contracts carry a period end; 6 end within 18 months, 1 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (12 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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