Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
NHS ODS: NHS TRUST·Central government·South West England·Truro
Official UK PPONPGXP-9455-TXGR
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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 3 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.
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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.
32 awarded tenders, 32 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
85 Health and social work services20 procedures · 59%50 Repair and maintenance services1 procedures · 3%51 Installation services (except software)1 procedures · 3%90 Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental1 procedures · 3%92 Recreational, cultural and sporting1 procedures · 3%98 Other community, social and personal services1 procedures · 3%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 · 34 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 97% (33 notices)
- Framework 3% (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 56% (19 notices)
- Direct award 26% (9 notices)
- Open 15% (5 notices)
- Selective 3% (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 3 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.
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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 3 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 34 notices across all categories, last 24 months.
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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| Kernow Surgical LLP | 3 | 9.4% | 2 | 3 | 5 Mar 2026 |
| BONE & JOINT SOLUTIONS LLP | 3 | 9.4% | 1 | 3 | 24 Oct 2024 |
| Gaia Health LLP | 2 | 6.3% | 2 | 2 | 5 Mar 2026 |
| Meneage Street Surgery Healthcare Ltd | 2 | 6.3% | 0 | 2 | 14 Jun 2024 |
| GE HEALTHCARE LIMITED | 1 | 3.1% | 1 | 1 | 11 Nov 2025 |
| UKHSA Bristol Laboratory, | 1 | 3.1% | 1 | 1 | 3 Dec 2024 |
| Probus Surgical Centre | 1 | 3.1% | 1 | 1 | 8 Jan 2025 |
| MICAD SYSTEMS (U.K.) LIMITED | 1 | 3.1% | 1 | 1 | 15 May 2025 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 25% of 32 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 32 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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| Outpatient Insourcing Services 26-27 | Your Medical Services Limited (YMS) | — | — | £1,020,000 † |
| Outsourced Dermatology Services 26-27 | Three Spires Medical Practice | — | — | £516,000 † |
| Surgical Insourcing Services 26-27 | Kernow Surgical LLP | — | — | £444,000 † |
| Surgical Insourcing Services | Kernow Surgical LLP | — | — | £430,000 † |
| Anaesthesia Insourcing Services 26-27 | Kernow Anaesthetic Services LLP | — | — | £375,000 † |
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 60 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| Ophthalmology Services- Diagnostic Imaging 24-25Ophthalmologist services | Awarded / complete | 14 Jun 2024 | — |
| Ophthalmology Services - Macular Disorders 24-25Ophthalmologist services | Awarded / complete | 14 Jun 2024 | — |
| Cornwall Skin 24-25Dermatology services | Awarded / complete | 14 Jun 2024 | — |
| Cornwall Facial Services 24-25Dermatology services | Awarded / complete | 14 Jun 2024 | — |
| Bone & Joint Solutions LLP 24Surgical hospital services | Awarded / complete | 9 Apr 2024 | — |
| Kernow Surgical LLP 24Surgical hospital services | Awarded / complete | 26 Mar 2024 | — |
| Bone & Joint Solutions LLP 24Surgical hospital services | Awarded / complete | 13 Mar 2024 | — |
| Knowledge Spa SecuritySecurity services | Open | 17 Jan 2024 | £600,000 |
| Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust Healthcare Waste (Clinical/Hazardous) TenderClinical-waste collection services | Open | 8 Jun 2023 | £7,000,000 |
| RCHT WATER TANK REPLACEMENTSConstruction work for buildings relating to water transport | Open | 21 Apr 2023 | — |
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 (£25m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 19 award records on 19 procedures (18 to a single canonical supplier, 1 multi-supplier). 16 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: 2 of 36 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 (20 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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