NHS Mid and South Essex Integrated Care Board: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
NHS ODS: STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP·NHS & health·East of England·Basildon, Essex
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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 6 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.
133 awarded tenders, 176 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 services81 procedures · 91%48 Software package and information systems6 procedures · 7%45 Construction work1 procedures · 1%70 Real estate services1 procedures · 1%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet1 procedures · 1%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting1 procedures · 1%80 Education and training services1 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 · 89 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 98% (87 notices)
- Framework 2% (2 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 74% (66 notices)
- Route not published 18% (16 notices)
- Open 8% (7 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 6 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 89 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 2 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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| Thurrock and Brentwood Mind | 7 | 5.3% | 6 | 8 | 13 Aug 2025 |
| Connect Health Ltd | 5 | 3.8% | 3 | 7 | 19 Dec 2025 |
| VITA HEALTH GROUP LIMITED | 5 | 3.8% | 3 | 7 | 28 Aug 2025 |
| Thurrock Health Hubs Limited | 5 | 3.8% | 3 | 7 | 11 Jun 2025 |
| Provide Wellbeing Limited | 5 | 3.8% | 3 | 5 | 28 Jan 2026 |
| Mayflower Healthcare Alliance Limited | 4 | 3% | 1 | 7 | 10 Mar 2025 |
| Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust | 3 | 2.3% | 3 | 3 | 28 Aug 2025 |
| Inclusion (Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust) (MPFT) | 3 | 2.3% | 3 | 3 | 27 Jan 2026 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 13% of 133 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 176 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 Community Musculoskeletal and Pain Service | Connect Health Ltd | — | — | £84,392,518 † |
| Acute Services | Ramsay Springfield | — | — | £75,403,211 † |
| NHS MSE ICB Dental Services - Carmelite Dental Practice | Carmelite Dental Practice | — | 3 yrs | £65,850,000 † ≈ £22m/yr |
| Integrated Community Dermatology Service | Community Health & Eyecare Ltd | — | — | £41,230,073 † |
| Integrated Community Dermatology Service | Community Health & Eyecare Ltd | — | — | £41,230,073 † |
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 139 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| Provision of ASD/ADHD Assessment and Support for Children and Young People across Mid and South EssexHealth services | Awarded / complete | 12 Aug 2026 | — |
| Care & Treatment ReviewsHospital and related services | Awarded / complete | 9 Mar 2026 | — |
| MSE - Minor Oral Surgery (Dental)Dental practice and related services | Awarded / complete | 24 Feb 2026 | — |
| Children and Young People (CYP) ADHD/ASD ServicesHealth services | Awarded / complete | 20 Feb 2026 | — |
| NHS Mid and South Essex ICB CYP Autism CYP ASD/ADHD ServicesHealth services | Awarded / complete | 29 Jan 2026 | — |
| Adult ADHD ServicesHealth services | Awarded / complete | 29 Jan 2026 | — |
| Adult ASD ServicesHealth services | Awarded / complete | 29 Jan 2026 | — |
| Children and Young People (CYP) ADHD/ASD ServicesHealth services | Awarded / complete | 28 Jan 2026 | — |
| Market Engagement Event: Integrated Discharge Support Scheme: Pathway Zero (0)Community health services | Planned | 27 Jan 2026 | £943,800 |
| NHS Talking Therapies and Psychological Therapies for Severe Mental Health ProblemsCommunity health services | Awarded / complete | 27 Jan 2026 | — |
| Integrated Community Musculoskeletal and Pain ServiceCommunity health services | Awarded / complete | 19 Dec 2025 | £164,149,073 |
| Urgent Award for Personal Health Budget Direct Payment Support ServiceHealth and social work services | Awarded / complete | 11 Dec 2025 | — |
| Mental Health Support Teams for Schools (MHSTs) for Mid and South EssexCommunity health services | Awarded / complete | 4 Dec 2025 | — |
| Framework VCSOs/SMEs Contracts (re-opening PDPS) for NHS Mid and South Essex ICBCommunity health services | Awarded / complete | 13 Nov 2025 | — |
| OphthalmologyHealth services | Awarded / complete | 28 Oct 2025 | — |
| Acute ServicesHealth services | Awarded / complete | 28 Oct 2025 | — |
| Mental Health Core Services (TT & PT SMHP) for NHS MSE ICBCommunity health services | Awarded / complete | 17 Oct 2025 | £92,503,175 |
| Integrated Community Dermatology Service for NHS Mid and South Essex ICB (Contract Award PSR Notice)Community health services | Awarded / complete | 24 Sept 2025 | £41,230,073 |
| NHS Talking Therapies and Psychological Therapies for Severe Mental Health ProblemsCommunity health services | Awarded / complete | 17 Sept 2025 | — |
| Adult ADHD ServicesHealth services | Awarded / complete | 4 Sept 2025 | — |
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 (£622m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 120 award records on 84 procedures (116 to a single canonical supplier, 4 multi-supplier). 88 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: 20 of 300 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 (37 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)
Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.
+13 further identifiers not listed here.
Canonical page id: GB-NHS-QH8