North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
NHS ODS: NHS TRUST·Central government·North West England·Bolton
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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.
10 awarded tenders, 8 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
50 Repair and maintenance services7 procedures · 22%48 Software package and information systems5 procedures · 16%71 Architectural, construction, engineering4 procedures · 13%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet3 procedures · 9%45 Construction work2 procedures · 6%55 Hotel, restaurant and retail trade services2 procedures · 6%60 Transport services (except waste transport)2 procedures · 6%80 Education and training services2 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 · 32 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% (29 notices)
- Framework 9% (3 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.
- Route not published 34% (11 notices)
- Selective 31% (10 notices)
- Open 25% (8 notices)
- Limited / restricted 9% (3 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 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 4 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 32 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 4 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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| Churchill Contract Services Limited | 2 | 20% | 1 | 2 | 30 Oct 2024 |
| Calibration & Consultancy Services (UK) Ltd | 2 | 20% | 1 | 2 | 9 Jan 2026 |
| Motorscreen Ltd | 1 | 10% | 1 | 1 | 31 Oct 2024 |
| United Industrial Supplies Ltd | 1 | 10% | 1 | 1 | 13 Nov 2024 |
| Pulse Associates Limited | 1 | 10% | 1 | 1 | 25 Sept 2025 |
| Doc-Works | 1 | 10% | 1 | 1 | 6 Feb 2026 |
| Gilling Dod Limited | 1 | 10% | 1 | 1 | 25 Sept 2025 |
| Health Care and Education Supportive Training Ltd | 1 | 10% | 1 | 1 | 15 Apr 2026 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 50% of 10 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 8 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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| Vehicle Ramp Replacements | Calibration & Consultancy Services (UK) Ltd | 9 Jan 2026 | 3 yrs · up to 5 yrs | £600,000 ≈ £200k/yr |
| Conflict Resolution Training | Health Care and Education Supportive Training Ltd | — | 3 yrs · up to 5 yrs | £540,000 † ≈ £180k/yr |
| Supply of Workshop Consumables & Provision of Assisted Stock Management | United Industrial Supplies Ltd | — | — | £469,714 † |
| Clinical Audit Tool (CAT) | Doc-Works | — | 4 yrs · up to 6 yrs | £271,435 † ≈ £68k/yr |
| Architectural Services for Sherdley Road Site Preston | Gilling Dod Limited | — | — | £198,500 † |
Recent procedures
Latest 37 of 37 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| Integrated Core Systems (ICS)Software package and information systems | Planned | 3 Sept 2026 | £19,300,000 |
| Quantity Surveying, Cost Consultancy and Project Management Services for an Integrated Contact CentreConstruction project management services | Open | 1 Sept 2026 | £600,000 |
| Calibration, Servicing and Maintenance of Workshop EquipmentCalibration services | Open | 26 Aug 2026 | £180,158 |
| Controlled Drugs Management System including Electronic Controlled Drugs RegisterMedical software package | Planning | 17 Aug 2026 | — |
| Integrated Core Systems (ICS)IT services: consulting | Planned | 2 Jul 2026 | £19,300,000 |
| Provision of Hard Facilities Management Services (Hard FM)Mechanical and electrical engineering services | Planned | 23 Jun 2026 | £12,500,000 |
| St Helens Workshops and Ambulance StationBuilding construction work | Planned | 22 May 2026 | £13,541,666 |
| Vehicle Leasing ServicesVehicle-fleet management services | Planned | 22 May 2026 | £3,333,333 |
| Provision of Planned Urgent Care and Adhoc Patient Transport Services (Private Ambulance)Non-scheduled passenger transport | Planned | 22 May 2026 | £83,333,333 |
| Integrated Contact Centre - Technical Infrastructure Migration - Design and BuildBuilding construction work | Planned | 22 May 2026 | £25,000,000 |
| Venue ManagementHotel meeting and conference services | Planned | 15 May 2026 | £3,570,000 |
| Conflict Resolution TrainingEducation and training services | Awarded / complete | 15 Apr 2026 | £540,000 |
| Generator Maintenance ServicesRepair and maintenance services of building installations | Awarded / complete | 24 Mar 2026 | £125,000 |
| Vehicle Ramp ReplacementsJacks and vehicle hoists | Awarded / complete | 10 Mar 2026 | £600,000 |
| Clinical Audit Tool (CAT)Software package and information systems | Awarded / complete | 6 Feb 2026 | £450,000 |
| Control Room ConsolesDesks and tables | Planning | 2 Jan 2026 | — |
| Quantity Surveyor for Sherdley Road Site PrestonQuantity surveying services | Awarded / complete | 25 Sept 2025 | — |
| Architectural Services for Sherdley Road Site PrestonArchitectural | Awarded / complete | 25 Sept 2025 | — |
| Clinical Audit ToolSoftware package and information systems | Planning | 11 Jul 2025 | — |
| Fully managed Medical Gas ServiceGas distribution and related services | Planned | 22 May 2025 | £4,941,056 |
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 (£153m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 8 award records on 8 procedures (8 to a single canonical supplier, 0 multi-supplier). 6 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: 3 of 10 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 (16 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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