Somerset NHS Foundation Trust: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
NHS ODS: NHS TRUST·Central government·South West England·Taunton
Official UK PPONPNWR-4212-QWHQWebsitesomersetft.nhs.uk ↗
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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 24 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.
349 awarded tenders, 274 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
2 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Provision of Transport for Stroke and Suspected Stroke Patients | 2 Oct 2026 | 2d | £300,000 |
| Antenatal Ward Relocation to Block 14 (SFT-BT-C464875) | 21 Oct 2026 | 21d | £1,200,000 |
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
85 Health and social work services78 procedures · 23% · 1 open33 Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals28 procedures · 8%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet17 procedures · 5%48 Software package and information systems15 procedures · 4%45 Construction work6 procedures · 2% · 1 open50 Repair and maintenance services6 procedures · 2%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting6 procedures · 2%71 Architectural, construction, engineering4 procedures · 1%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 · 345 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 96% (331 notices)
- Framework 3% (12 notices)
- Dynamic purchasing system 1% (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.
- Direct award 44% (151 notices)
- Limited / restricted 36% (123 notices)
- Route not published 11% (39 notices)
- Open 8% (27 notices)
- Selective 1% (5 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 24 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 8 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 345 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 14 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months.
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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| SOMERSET SURGICAL SERVICES LTD | 12 | 3.4% | 7 | 13 | 4 Jun 2026 |
| Knight Electrical Limited | 10 | 2.9% | 9 | 10 | 12 Aug 2026 |
| AGITO Medical AS | 6 | 1.7% | 6 | 6 | 26 May 2026 |
| Hologic Ltd | 5 | 1.4% | 5 | 5 | 25 Sept 2026 |
| Philips Electronics UK Limited | 4 | 1.1% | 4 | 4 | 2 Sept 2026 |
| ICS Operations trading as Xyla Services | 4 | 1.1% | 4 | 4 | 26 Jun 2026 |
| Rethink Trading Limited | 4 | 1.1% | 3 | 5 | 12 Aug 2026 |
| AWP Services Ltd | 3 | 0.9% | 3 | 3 | 16 Jul 2026 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 8% of 349 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 274 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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| Variation for construction and operation of a Community Diagnostics Facility | Ergea UK and Ireland Ltd | — | — | £37,539,000 † |
| Contract for the Supply of Blood Components, Reagents and Services | NHS BLOOD AND TRANSPLANT (NHSBT) | — | — | £4,471,659 † |
| Dell PC's, Laptops, Servers and Storage | Dell Corporation Ltd | — | — | £3,360,000 † |
| Community Investigation Hubs | Bridgwater PCN | — | — | £2,884,420 † |
| Provision of a Mixed Inpatient and Community Rehabilitation Service | Rethink Trading Limited | — | 1 yrs | £2,000,000 † ≈ £2.0m/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 · 214 of 375 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Bone graft | Stryker UK Ltd | 30 Sept 2026 | £24,000 |
| Authorising Engineer (Medical Gas), service contract and annual audit | Medical Engineering Systems Ltd | 30 Sept 2026 | £13,265 |
| Healthcare Document Management | Smartgate Solutions Ltd (T/A Radar Health Care) | 30 Sept 2026 | £12,000 |
| Benson Model for District Nursing | Benson Health Limited | 30 Sept 2026 | £33,765 |
| Actuarial advice | Government Actuary's Department | 30 Sept 2026 | £25,000 |
| 11Kv connection works for Datacentre and Diagnostic Centre | Knight Electrical Limited | 8 Oct 2026 | £26,410 |
| Paxman Scalp Coolers | Paxman Coolers Ltd | 23 Oct 2026 | £27,300 |
| Executive Team & Board Development | CO CREATE LTD | 31 Oct 2026 | £23,170 |
| Jubilee Garden External Lighting Upgrade | PURPLELUX LIGHTING SOLUTIONS LTD | 31 Oct 2026 | £21,111 |
| Networking Equipment Upgrade | QOLCOM LIMITED | 14 Nov 2026 | £545,106 |
Soonest 10 of 98 contracts ending within 18 months.
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 395 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| Dell PC's, Laptops, Servers and StorageComputer equipment and supplies | Awarded / complete | 24 Jul 2026 | — |
| IT459 Internet Breakers for Associated Datacentre Rack Space RentalData services | Awarded / complete | 24 Jul 2026 | — |
| IT454 Datacentre Rack Space RentalData services | Awarded / complete | 24 Jul 2026 | — |
| Authorising Engineer (Medical Gas) service contract | Awarded / complete | 21 Jul 2026 | — |
| SSD Annual & quarterly servicing | Awarded / complete | 21 Jul 2026 | — |
| Drug Knowledge Base for Electronic Health and Care Record | Awarded / complete | 21 Jul 2026 | — |
| UPS battery replacement - SNICU (MPH) | Awarded / complete | 17 Jul 2026 | — |
| 11Kv connection works for Datacentre and Diagnostic Centre | Awarded / complete | 17 Jul 2026 | — |
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 (£325m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 335 award records on 315 procedures (334 to a single canonical supplier, 1 multi-supplier). 267 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: 214 of 375 published contracts carry a period end; 98 end within 18 months, 31 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (9 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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