NHS SUSSEX INTEGRATED CARE BOARD: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

NHS ODS: STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPCentral governmentSouth East EnglandLewes

Official UK PPONPVDX-6283-RPQJ

Open now0no live notices
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Tenders you can still bid for.

Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.

Notices, last 12 months28-65% vs prior 12 months (81)
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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 lot4.50% single-bid · 10 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 10 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

Top-3 supplier share8%of 123 awarded procedures · 107 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.

123 awarded tenders, 107 different suppliers.

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

All awards we hold.

Contracts ending ≤18 months5none 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.

A likely retender, not a certain one.

Published award value, 24m£1.7bnnet · on 58 of 120 single-supplier awards · top 5 = 82%
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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 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 · 109 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.

  • Contract 99% (108 notices)
  • Framework 1% (1 notices)
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.

  • Limited / restricted 89% (97 notices)
  • Open 8% (9 notices)
  • Route not published 2% (2 notices)
  • Direct award 1% (1 notices)
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 10 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

4.5robust · n=100% 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 109 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

172 of 109 notices amended
Award vs estimate
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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 5 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months.

A past pattern, not a price to bid.

Last 24 months.

0% at estimaterobust · n=5

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
Alliance For Better Care43.3%3417 Apr 2026
Scrivens Limited32.4%3322 Jan 2026
Boots Opticians Professional Services Limited32.4%336 Jan 2025
Care Unbound Limited32.4%2318 Mar 2026
Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust32.4%234 Sept 2025
Alzheimer's Society32.4%1418 Mar 2026
INTEGRATED CARE 24 LTD32.4%135 Mar 2025
Impact Initiatives21.6%2218 Mar 2026

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 8% of 123 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 107 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 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.

£1.7bnSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 58 of 120 single-supplier awards; the five largest make 82%.
Typical single-supplier award (24m)
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What one of this buyer’s contracts is usually worth.

Middle value of the same awards as the total above.

Last 24 months.

£1.1m middle valuerobust · n=58Middle half £238k–£8.4m; 60 duplicate amounts excluded from both figures (heuristic for republished framework ceilings).
Largest published awards
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The 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.

SupplierAwardedTermPublished value
Acute ServicesEast Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust——£562,189,000 †
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation TrustSussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust——£297,434,479 †
Community NHS Health and Care ServicesSussex Community NHS Foundation Trust——£244,463,000 †
Community Musculoskeletal (MSK) Services to NHS SussexSussex Community NHS Foundation Trust——£198,555,000 †
Community Musculoskeletal (MSK) Services to NHS SussexEast Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust——£104,734,000 †

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.

A likely retender, not a certain one.

Published end dates only · 6 of 140 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast

ContractHolderEndsPublished value
Direct Payment Support Services (AACC)Independent Lives (Disability), Independent Lives (Disability)31 Mar 2027£303,062
NHS Sussex Nursing Home Any Qualified Provider (AQP)See Section VI: Complementary information30 Nov 2027£1
NHS Sussex ICB Nursing Home Any Qualified Provider (AQP)See Section VI: Complementary information30 Nov 2027£0
NHS Sussex ICB Nursing Home Any Qualified Provider (AQP)See Section VI: Complementary information30 Nov 2027£0
NHS Sussex ICB Nursing Home Any Qualified Provider (AQP)See Section VI: Complementary information30 Nov 2027£0

Recent procedures

Latest 50 of 137 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
Community Pharmacy Locally Commissioned Service for Emergency Palliative Care DrugsPharmacy servicesAwarded / complete17 Apr 2026—
SUSSEX COVID-19 Treatment for Highest Risk non- Hospitalised Patients COVID 19 (NMABS) Incorporating Outbreak Response ServiceMedical practice and related servicesAwarded / complete17 Apr 2026—
Hastings Sanctuary Crisis Housing ServiceMiscellaneous health servicesAwarded / complete17 Apr 2026—
AACC/CHC Fast-track Palliative End of Life Care Hospice BedsHealth servicesAwarded / complete15 Apr 2026—
24/7 Children's and Young People (CYP) Specialist Palliative and End of Life Care (PEoLC) SussexHealth servicesAwarded / complete9 Apr 2026—
Tier 2 Dental Restorative Services in SussexDental practice and related servicesAwarded / complete2 Apr 2026—
Tier 2 Dental Restorative Services in SussexDental practice and related servicesAwarded / complete2 Apr 2026—
NHS Sussex ICB Nursing Home Any Qualified Provider (AQP)Health and social work servicesAwarded / complete31 Mar 2026£0
Bereaved By Suicide ServiceMiscellaneous health servicesAwarded / complete23 Mar 2026—
Bereavement by Suicide SupportMiscellaneous health servicesAwarded / complete23 Mar 2026—
Direct Payment Support Services (AACC)Awarded / complete20 Mar 2026—
Brighton & Hove Memory Assessment ServiceMiscellaneous health servicesAwarded / complete18 Mar 2026—
East Sussex Cognitive NeurologyMiscellaneous health servicesAwarded / complete18 Mar 2026—
East Sussex Memory Assessment ServiceMiscellaneous health servicesAwarded / complete18 Mar 2026—
Brighton & Hove and West Sussex Dementia Post-Diagnostic Support ServiceMiscellaneous health servicesAwarded / complete18 Mar 2026—
Brighton & Hove - Ageing Well Psychosocial Support for PLWD ServiceMiscellaneous health servicesAwarded / complete18 Mar 2026—
Life After StrokeHealth and social work servicesAwarded / complete6 Mar 2026£2,605,071
Tier 2 Dental Sedation Services in SussexDental practice and related servicesAwarded / complete18 Feb 2026—
Tier 2 Dental Sedation Services in SussexDental practice and related servicesAwarded / complete18 Feb 2026—
Cruse Bereavement CareHealth servicesAwarded / complete2 Feb 2026—

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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 (£542m, 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 107 procedures (120 to a single canonical supplier, 0 multi-supplier). 57 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: 6 of 140 published contracts carry a period end; 5 end within 18 months, 0 within 6.
  • Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (6 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)

Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.

GB-FTS-173463GB-FTS-67732GB-NHS-NFC01GB-NHS-NHS SUSSEX INTEGRATED CARE BOARDGB-NHS-NHS Sussex Integrated Care BoardGB-NHS-QNX

Canonical page id: GB-PPON-PVDX-6283-RPQJ