Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

NHS ODS: NHS TRUSTCentral governmentYorkshire and the HumberSheffield

Official UK PPONPTWR-5281-TMPQWebsitesheffieldchildrens.nhs.uk ↗

Open now1next deadline 30 Oct 2026
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Tenders you can still bid for.

Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.

Notices, last 12 months37+363% vs prior 12 months (8)
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Notices published in the last 12 months.

Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.

Typical bids per lot325% single-bid · 4 bid reports
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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 4 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.

Last 24 months, all categories.

Top-3 supplier share19%of 32 awarded procedures · 29 suppliers
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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, 29 different suppliers.

Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.

All awards we hold.

Contracts ending ≤18 months83 within 6 months
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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 award value, 24m£3.8mnet · on 27 of 31 single-supplier awards · top 5 = 82%
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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

NoticeDeadlineDays leftPublished value
SCH Lift Authorising Engineer30 Oct 202630d£55,000

What they buy
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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

How they buy
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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 · 45 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim

Commercial tool
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How work here is packaged.

Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.

  • Contract 98% (44 notices)
  • Framework 2% (1 notices)
Procedure route
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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.

  • Direct award 53% (24 notices)
  • Route not published 18% (8 notices)
  • Open 13% (6 notices)
  • Limited / restricted 11% (5 notices)
  • Selective 4% (2 notices)
Typical bids per lot
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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 4 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.

Last 24 months, all categories.

3moderate · n=425% of lots drew a single bid
Notice amendments
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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 46 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

09 of 46 notices amended
Award vs estimate
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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.

Last 24 months.

0.5% below estimateindicative · n=2

Who wins here
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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

SupplierProceduresShareLast 24mAward recordsLast activity
Kids Invent Stuff Ltd26.3%2316 Jul 2026
Stryker UK Ltd26.3%225 Aug 2026
Airflow Cooling Ltd26.3%1216 Jan 2025
GE Medical Systems Ltd13.1%1114 May 2026
TBG Solutions Limited13.1%112 Apr 2026
Henry Boot Construction Limited13.1%1120 Dec 2024
BRIGHTEDGE LIMITED T/A Summit Medical and Scientific13.1%1125 Jun 2026
Delta Surgical Ltd13.1%114 Mar 2026

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 19% of 32 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 29 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards — not a statement of preference.

Published award value (24m)
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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.

£3.8mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 27 of 31 single-supplier awards; the five largest make 82%.
Typical single-supplier award (24m)
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What one of this buyer’s contracts is usually worth.

Middle value of the same awards as the total above.

Last 24 months.

£41k middle valuerobust · n=27Middle half £21k–£62k; 3 duplicate amounts excluded from both figures (heuristic for republished framework ceilings).
Largest published awards
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The 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.

SupplierAwardedTermPublished value
SCH Refrigeration and ACU MaintenanceAirflow Cooling Ltd——£2,250,000 †
Together Link WorkersSOAR Community——£392,420 †
SCH - BEAMS Lease Of Bed Side Monitoring SystemsTBG Solutions Limited—3 yrs£207,900 †
≈ £69k/yr
3D marker-based motion analysis systemVicon Motion Systems—9.9 yrs£203,864 †
≈ £21k/yr
SCH Maintenance for Arthrex Camera System 2025-2030Arthrex Ltd—5 yrs£86,625 †
≈ £17k/yr

Contracts ending
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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 · 26 of 30 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast

Recent procedures

Latest 50 of 50 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
Together Link WorkersSocial servicesAwarded / complete25 Feb 2025£396,000
Provision of Branding ServicesDesign consultancy servicesPlanned27 Jan 2025—
SCH Refrigeration and ACU MaintenanceCondenser air-cooling systemsAwarded / complete16 Jan 2025£2,250,000
The National Centre for Child Health Technology (NCCHT)central purchasing bodyConstruction workAwarded / complete20 Dec 2024£17,500,000
SCH Gardening & Landscaping ServicesGrounds maintenance servicesOpen29 Aug 2024£150,000
Air Conditioning & Refrigeration Maintenance ServicesHeat-exchange unitsAwarded / complete10 Jan 2024—
SCHE Electronic Security Call Out Support, Software and Minor InstallsSurveillance servicesAwarded / complete26 May 2023—
SCH4167 Embrace Paediatric and Neonatal Transport System Replacement ProgrammeMedical equipmentsOpen13 Feb 2023£140,000
SCH4167 Embrace Paediatric and Neonatal Transport System Replacement ProgrammeMedical equipmentsOpen13 Feb 2023£1,400,000

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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 (£35m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
  • Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 31 award records on 30 procedures (31 to a single canonical supplier, 0 multi-supplier). 26 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: 26 of 30 published contracts carry a period end; 8 end within 18 months, 3 within 6.
  • Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (3 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)

Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.

GB-FTS-108178GB-FTS-40916GB-NHS-RCU

Canonical page id: GB-PPON-PTWR-5281-TMPQ