NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
NHS & health·North West England·Preston
Official UK PPONPBWM-8336-DJRG
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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 3 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.
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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.
207 awarded tenders, 147 different suppliers.
Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.
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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.
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 services204 procedures · 99%48 Software package and information systems2 procedures · 1%60 Transport services (except waste transport)1 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 · 206 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% (206 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 90% (186 notices)
- Route not published 5% (10 notices)
- Open 4% (9 notices)
- Direct award 0% (1 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 3 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.
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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 206 notices across all categories, last 24 months.
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Do this buyer’s awards land above or below its own estimates.
Each lot’s published estimate against its award, on this buyer’s competitions, like for like.
Based on 3 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months. Small sample.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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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| FCMS (NW) Ltd | 7 | 3.4% | 5 | 7 | 17 Aug 2026 |
| Spring North LTD | 6 | 2.9% | 4 | 7 | 22 Dec 2025 |
| Age UK Lancashire | 5 | 2.4% | 5 | 5 | 16 Jan 2026 |
| Community Health & Eyecare Ltd | 5 | 2.4% | 5 | 5 | 22 May 2026 |
| North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust | 5 | 2.4% | 3 | 12 | 30 Apr 2026 |
| Waythrough | 4 | 1.9% | 4 | 4 | 20 Mar 2026 |
| Beacon Medical Services Group Limited | 4 | 1.9% | 4 | 4 | 22 May 2026 |
| Blackpool Carers Centre Ltd | 4 | 1.9% | 4 | 4 | 6 Mar 2026 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 9% of 207 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 147 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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| Integrated Acute and Community Services including Specialised Commissioning delegated and NHS England retained (including Specialised, PH, H&J and armed forces) | University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust | — | — | £584,299,280 † |
| Paramedic Emergency Services | North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust | — | — | £478,451,860 † |
| Community Integrated Musculoskeletal (IMSK) Service - Moving Well | Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust | — | — | £79,184,119 † |
| West Lancashire Community Services - NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB (October 25) | NHS Mersey & West Lancashire NHS Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust | — | — | £54,985,915 † |
| Community Services | Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust | — | — | £47,602,524 † |
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 227 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| Ophthalmology Services - Fylde CoastHealth services | Awarded / complete | 22 May 2026 | — |
| Ophthalmology Services- CentralHealth services | Awarded / complete | 22 May 2026 | — |
| Community ENT ServiceHealth services | Awarded / complete | 22 May 2026 | — |
| Lancashire and South Cumbria Shared Care Record (SCR) Service | Awarded / complete | 20 May 2026 | — |
| Market Engagement Questionnaire -The Provision of Lancashire and South Cumbria (LSC) Adult Teledermatology Service on behalf of Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board (LSC ICB)Clinical information system | Planned | 15 May 2026 | £13,100,000 |
| Paramedic Emergency ServicesAmbulance services | Awarded / complete | 30 Apr 2026 | — |
| Lancashire and South Cumbria Non-Emergency Patient Transport ServicesHealth services | Awarded / complete | 17 Apr 2026 | — |
| Lancashire and South Cumbria Non-Emergency Patient Transport ServicesHealth services | Awarded / complete | 17 Apr 2026 | — |
| The HavenHealth services | Awarded / complete | 20 Mar 2026 | — |
| Recovery SupportHealth services | Awarded / complete | 20 Mar 2026 | — |
| Digital ServicesHealth services | Awarded / complete | 20 Mar 2026 | — |
| Community GPwSi ENT ServiceENT or audiologist services | Awarded / complete | 13 Mar 2026 | — |
| Crisis Cafe service in Morecambe BayHealth services | Awarded / complete | 11 Mar 2026 | — |
| Wellbeing Services - Crisis CafeHealth services | Awarded / complete | 11 Mar 2026 | — |
| Community of Safe SpacesHealth services | Awarded / complete | 11 Mar 2026 | — |
| Individual and family support for people bereaved by suicideHealth services | Awarded / complete | 11 Mar 2026 | — |
| Crisis/Drop in ServiceHealth services | Awarded / complete | 11 Mar 2026 | — |
| Psychological Support following Sexual AbuseHealth services | Awarded / complete | 11 Mar 2026 | — |
| Counselling ServiceHealth services | Awarded / complete | 11 Mar 2026 | — |
| Pain Management ServicesHealth services | Awarded / complete | 11 Mar 2026 | — |
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 (£709m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 198 award records on 194 procedures (197 to a single canonical supplier, 1 multi-supplier). 171 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: 2 of 224 published contracts carry a period end; 0 end within 18 months, 0 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (11 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-PBWM-8336-DJRG