NHS SUSSEX INTEGRATED CARE BOARD: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
NHS ODS: STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP·Central government·South East England·Lewes
Official UK PPONPVDX-6283-RPQJ
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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 10 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.
123 awarded tenders, 107 different suppliers.
Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.
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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.
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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 services107 procedures · 98%33 Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals1 procedures · 1%90 Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental1 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 · 109 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 99% (108 notices)
- Framework 1% (1 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 89% (97 notices)
- Open 8% (9 notices)
- Route not published 2% (2 notices)
- Direct award 1% (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 10 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 109 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 5 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months.
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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| Alliance For Better Care | 4 | 3.3% | 3 | 4 | 17 Apr 2026 |
| Scrivens Limited | 3 | 2.4% | 3 | 3 | 22 Jan 2026 |
| Boots Opticians Professional Services Limited | 3 | 2.4% | 3 | 3 | 6 Jan 2025 |
| Care Unbound Limited | 3 | 2.4% | 2 | 3 | 18 Mar 2026 |
| Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust | 3 | 2.4% | 2 | 3 | 4 Sept 2025 |
| Alzheimer's Society | 3 | 2.4% | 1 | 4 | 18 Mar 2026 |
| INTEGRATED CARE 24 LTD | 3 | 2.4% | 1 | 3 | 5 Mar 2025 |
| Impact Initiatives | 2 | 1.6% | 2 | 2 | 18 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.
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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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| Acute Services | East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust | — | — | £562,189,000 † |
| Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust | Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust | — | — | £297,434,479 † |
| Community NHS Health and Care Services | Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust | — | — | £244,463,000 † |
| Community Musculoskeletal (MSK) Services to NHS Sussex | Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust | — | — | £198,555,000 † |
| Community Musculoskeletal (MSK) Services to NHS Sussex | East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust | — | — | £104,734,000 † |
Contracts endingi
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.
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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
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| 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 information | 30 Nov 2027 | £1 |
| NHS Sussex ICB Nursing Home Any Qualified Provider (AQP) | See Section VI: Complementary information | 30 Nov 2027 | £0 |
| NHS Sussex ICB Nursing Home Any Qualified Provider (AQP) | See Section VI: Complementary information | 30 Nov 2027 | £0 |
| NHS Sussex ICB Nursing Home Any Qualified Provider (AQP) | See Section VI: Complementary information | 30 Nov 2027 | £0 |
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 137 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| Community hearing aids service for age-related hearing loss - C378303ENT or audiologist services | Awarded / complete | 22 Jan 2026 | £65,000,000 |
| Integrated Cataract PathwayOptician services | Awarded / complete | 7 Jan 2026 | — |
| NHS Sussex ICB Personalised Home Care AQP - Market Engagement for Specification Development (Adult AACC / CHC, PSR)Home medical treatment services | Planned | 4 Dec 2025 | — |
| Homeless and Rough Sleeper Service EastbourneGeneral-practitioner services | Awarded / complete | 3 Dec 2025 | — |
| NHS Sussex ICB - Mental Health Support Services - Brighton and Hove / West SussexHealth services | Awarded / complete | 23 Oct 2025 | £48,741,637 |
| Social Prescribing Service - CrawleyHealth and social work services | Awarded / complete | 8 Oct 2025 | — |
| Social Prescribing Service - Horsham and Mid-SussexHealth and social work services | Awarded / complete | 8 Oct 2025 | — |
| Social Prescribing Service - Brighton and HoveHealth and social work services | Awarded / complete | 8 Oct 2025 | — |
| NHS Sussex Nursing Home Any Qualified Provider (AQP)Health and social work services | Awarded / complete | 10 Sept 2025 | £1 |
| East Sussex Children and Adult Wheelchair and Specialist Seating serviceHealth services | Awarded / complete | 8 Sept 2025 | — |
| Acute ServicesHealth services | Awarded / complete | 4 Sept 2025 | — |
| Acute ServicesHealth services | Awarded / complete | 4 Sept 2025 | — |
| Acute ServicesHealth services | Awarded / complete | 4 Sept 2025 | — |
| Community NHS Health and Care ServicesHealth services | Awarded / complete | 4 Sept 2025 | — |
| Audiology AQP & Non-AQPENT or audiologist services | Awarded / complete | 4 Sept 2025 | — |
| The Whitehawk Practice Alternative Provider Medical ServiceMedical practice services | Awarded / complete | 29 Aug 2025 | — |
| Self-Funder Support ServiceHealth services | Awarded / complete | 6 Aug 2025 | — |
| Primary Eyecare ServicesOphthalmologist services | Awarded / complete | 31 Jul 2025 | — |
| Whitehawk Alternative Provider Medical Services (APMS) Primary Care ServicesHealth services | Awarded / complete | 28 Jul 2025 | £10,419,642 |
| Community Pharmacy: Emergency Palliative Care Drugs Locally Commissioned Service (LCS)Pharmacy services | Awarded / complete | 28 Apr 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 (£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.
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