NHS MIDLANDS AND LANCASHIRE COMMISSIONING SUPPORT UNIT: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
Central government·West Midlands·Stoke-on-Trent
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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 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 services6 procedures · 38%98 Other community, social and personal services2 procedures · 13%33 Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals1 procedures · 6%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 · 16 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% (16 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.
- Direct award 56% (9 notices)
- Open 31% (5 notices)
- Route not published 13% (2 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 3 notices across all categories, last 24 months.
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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| Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust (on behalf of NHS Elect) | 2 | 25% | 2 | 2 | 2 Mar 2026 |
| Assist Sensory Support | 1 | 12.5% | 1 | 1 | 12 Mar 2025 |
| Deaflinks Staffordshire | 1 | 12.5% | 1 | 1 | 12 Mar 2025 |
| Viss Sign Language Interpreting Services (Shropshire) Ltd | 1 | 12.5% | 1 | 1 | 12 Mar 2025 |
| Project 93 | 1 | 12.5% | 1 | 1 | 15 May 2025 |
| Warrington & Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS FT (on behalf of NHS North West Leadership Academy) | 1 | 12.5% | 1 | 1 | 19 Jun 2025 |
| NHS Midlands and Lancashire CSU | 1 | 12.5% | 1 | 1 | 5 Aug 2025 |
| VitalHub (UK) Limited | 1 | 12.5% | 1 | 1 | 29 May 2025 |
8 awarded procedures across 9 suppliers — too few to describe concentration.
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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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| Interpretation and Translation Services - BSL | Assist Sensory Support | 12 Mar 2025 | 3 yrs · up to 4 yrs | £200,000 ≈ £67k/yr |
| Interpretation and Translation Services - BSL | Deaflinks Staffordshire | 12 Mar 2025 | 3 yrs · up to 4 yrs | £140,000 ≈ £47k/yr |
| Occupational Health with Needle Stick Injury Support Services | Heales Health Services Ltd. | 9 Sept 2025 | 1.3 yrs · up to 3.3 yrs | £138,160 ≈ £104k/yr |
| Provision of Adult Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Referral Management Service | NHS Midlands and Lancashire CSU | 5 Aug 2025 | 1 yrs | £116,000 ≈ £116k/yr |
| Learning and Development Services | Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust (on behalf of NHS Elect) | 16 Apr 2025 | 1 yrs | £75,600 ≈ £76k/yr |
Recent procedures
Latest 16 of 16 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
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 (£89m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 10 award records on 8 procedures (10 to a single canonical supplier, 0 multi-supplier). 0 values come from the contract record when the award carried none; 1 awards published only a VAT-inclusive amount and are counted but not valued.
- 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: 3 of 3 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”.