North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
NHS ODS: NHS TRUST·Central government·North West England·Carlisle
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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 8 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.
14 awarded tenders, 14 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.
Open notices
1 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fully Maintained Vehicle Fleet and Fleet Management Service | 2 Oct 2026 | 2d | £500,000 |
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
15 Food, drink, tobacco6 procedures · 26%33 Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals5 procedures · 22%50 Repair and maintenance services4 procedures · 17% · 1 open79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting4 procedures · 17%85 Health and social work services2 procedures · 9%90 Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental2 procedures · 9%34 Transport equipment and products1 procedures · 4% · 1 open31 Electrical machinery1 procedures · 4%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 · 23 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 91% (21 notices)
- Framework 9% (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.
- Open 43% (10 notices)
- Direct award 17% (4 notices)
- Limited / restricted 17% (4 notices)
- Route not published 17% (4 notices)
- Selective 4% (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 8 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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How long this buyer takes to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from deadline to first award notice, on this buyer’s own tenders.
Based on 5 decided tenders across all categories, 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 23 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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| Security Plus Limited | 1 | 7.1% | 1 | 2 | 19 Feb 2026 |
| Carlisle Refrigeration Ltd | 1 | 7.1% | 1 | 1 | 28 Jan 2025 |
| Starkstrom Limited | 1 | 7.1% | 1 | 1 | 16 Apr 2026 |
| MITIE FM LIMITED | 1 | 7.1% | 1 | 1 | 25 Mar 2026 |
| TIFFIN SANDWICHES LIMITED | 1 | 7.1% | 1 | 1 | 17 Oct 2025 |
| PEOPLE FIRST INDEPENDENT ADVOCACY | 1 | 7.1% | 1 | 1 | 2 Dec 2025 |
| Egton Medical Information Systems Limited 3 | 1 | 7.1% | 1 | 1 | 5 Nov 2025 |
| Orian Solutions Limited | 1 | 7.1% | 1 | 1 | 29 Nov 2024 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 21% of 14 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 14 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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| Facilities Management Contract | MITIE FM LIMITED | — | — | £16,530,000 † |
| Maintenance Contract for Starkstrom Theatre Pendants, IPS (Isolated Power Supply) and UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply), TCP (Theatre Control Panels) and Operating Lights under HTM 06-01 PA23 for a hospital environment | Starkstrom Limited | 16 Apr 2026 | 3 yrs · up to 5.1 yrs | £662,379 ≈ £221k/yr |
| Honeywell closed protocol building energy management system | Honeywell Control Systems Limited | 31 Mar 2025 | 2.9 yrs · up to 5.9 yrs | £494,219 ≈ £169k/yr |
| NCIC - Bread & Milk | Caterite Food and Wineservice LTD | 1 Dec 2025 | 3 yrs · up to 5.3 yrs | £291,556 ≈ £97k/yr |
| Food To Go - North Cumbria Integrated Care | TIFFIN SANDWICHES LIMITED | 17 Oct 2025 | 2 yrs · up to 4.2 yrs | £175,412 ≈ £88k/yr |
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 · 5 of 12 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Food To Go - North Cumbria Integrated Care | TIFFIN SANDWICHES LIMITED | 11 Jan 2028 | £175,412 |
Recent procedures
Latest 27 of 27 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| Specialist E&F Consultancy Support (Hard & Soft FM)Facilities management services | Awarded / complete | 21 Sept 2026 | — |
| Provision of Workforce and Associated ServicesRecruitment services | Open | 13 Aug 2026 | £688,095 |
| Bed Management - North Cumbria Integrated CareFacility related sanitation services | Planning | 15 Jun 2026 | £1,000,000 |
| Maintenance Contract for Starkstrom Theatre Pendants, IPS (Isolated Power Supply) and UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply), TCP (Theatre Control Panels) and Operating Lights under HTM 06-01 PA23 for a hospital environmentInterruptible power supplies | Awarded / complete | 29 May 2026 | £250,000 |
| Facilities Management ContractFacilities management services | Awarded / complete | 25 Mar 2026 | — |
| NCIC - Bread & MilkBread | Awarded / complete | 24 Mar 2026 | £500,000 |
| Map My Mole Teledermoscopy Services | Awarded / complete | 5 Mar 2026 | — |
| Cash collection and delivery servicesSecurity services | Awarded / complete | 19 Feb 2026 | £78,000 |
| Food To Go - North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation TrustCakes | Awarded / complete | 16 Jan 2026 | £175,412 |
| Provision of a Containment Product ServiceHome delivery of incontinence products | Open | 15 Jan 2026 | £13,415,635 |
| Cancer Care CafeCafeteria services | Awarded / complete | 3 Dec 2025 | £30 |
| Outsourced Dermatology | Awarded / complete | 2 Dec 2025 | — |
| Community EPRIT services: consulting | Awarded / complete | 5 Nov 2025 | — |
| Rio Community EPR | Awarded / complete | 7 Oct 2025 | — |
| Continuation of Continence contractHome delivery of incontinence products | Awarded / complete | 8 Sept 2025 | — |
| Food To Go - North Cumbria Integrated CareCakes | Planned | 4 Aug 2025 | £175,412 |
| Honeywell closed protocol building energy management system | Awarded / complete | 14 May 2025 | — |
| Pre-prepared Ready MealsPrepared meals | Planning | 23 Apr 2025 | £1,372,787 |
| Pre-prepared Ready MealsPrepared meals | Planning | 23 Apr 2025 | £1,372,787 |
| Provisions of Bed ManagementHospital beds | Planning | 2 Apr 2025 | £843,549 |
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 (£21m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 14 award records on 13 procedures (14 to a single canonical supplier, 0 multi-supplier). 5 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: 5 of 12 published contracts carry a period end; 1 end within 18 months, 0 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (5 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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