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 33 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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| Patient Emergency Services Vehicle ConversionsVehicle conversion and reconditioning services | Planned | 21 May 2025 | £10,000,000 |
| Telephony ServicesPublic-telephone services | Planned | 21 May 2025 | £3,085,000 |
| Paramedic ApprenticeshipsEducation and training services | Planned | 20 May 2025 | £13,500,000 |
| Electronic Patient RecordsMedical software development services | Planned | 20 May 2025 | £1,724,665 |
| Microsoft Enterprise AgreementsOffice and computing machinery | Planned | 20 May 2025 | £3,600,000 |
| Venue ManagementHotel meeting and conference services | Planned | 20 May 2025 | £2,942,000 |
| Bulk Fuel and Ancillary ProductsDiesel fuel | Planned | 20 May 2025 | £1,600,000 |
| The Provision of Vehicle TyresTyres for heavy/light-duty vehicles | Planned | 20 May 2025 | £2,500,000 |
| Private Taxis and AmbulancesTaxi services | Planned | 15 May 2025 | £8,099,000 |
| Supply of Workshop Consumables & Provision of Assisted Stock ManagementRepair and maintenance services of motor vehicles and associated equipment | Awarded / complete | 13 Nov 2024 | — |
| Supply, Fit and Repair of Vehicle Glass and Associated Products & ServicesFleet management | Awarded / complete | 31 Oct 2024 | — |
| Ambulance Premises Cleaning ServicesCleaning services | Awarded / complete | 30 Oct 2024 | — |
| Ambulance Vehicle Preparation ServicesCleaning and sanitation services | Awarded / complete | 16 Sept 2024 | — |
| Clinical Audit ToolSoftware supply services | Planned | 25 Jun 2024 | £50,000 |
| Vehicle Ramp ReplacementsFleet management | Awarded / complete | 5 Dec 2023 | — |
| The Provision of Occupational Health ServicesHealth services | Open | 24 Apr 2023 | £5,000,000 |
| Provision of an Ambulance Vehicle Hire ServiceEmergency vehicles | Open | 26 Aug 2021 | £8,400,000 |
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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