The Common Services Agency (more commonly known as NHS National Services Scotland) (NSS): Contract Register & Procurement Profile
NHS & health·Scotland·Edinburgh·Central purchasing body on 184 of 184 notices
Find a Tender organisation id115937Websitenss.nhs.scot ↗
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Tenders you can still bid for.
Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed, counted the way the search counts them: a notice shows under every code and region it names.
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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 13 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.
221 awarded tenders, 656 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.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of published VAT-exclusive awards to single suppliers, last 24 months. Left out: concession revenue, framework ceilings, repeated notices, equal-value duplicates.
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
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Single Use Podiatry Instruments | 5 Nov 2026 | 14d | £2,000,000 |
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
33 Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals103 procedures · 56% · 1 open72 IT services: consulting, software, internet43 procedures · 23%39 Furniture, furnishings, domestic appliances10 procedures · 5%42 Industrial machinery8 procedures · 4%48 Software package and information systems6 procedures · 3%71 Architectural, construction, engineering6 procedures · 3%34 Transport equipment and products5 procedures · 3%50 Repair and maintenance services5 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 · 184 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.
Contract54%(100 notices)
100 of 184 notices are Contract (54%).Framework45%(83 notices)
83 of 184 notices are Framework (45%).Dynamic purchasing system1%(1 notices)
1 of 184 notices are Dynamic purchasing system (1%).
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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 / restricted36%(67 notices)
67 of 184 notices are Limited / restricted (36%).Open36%(67 notices)
67 of 184 notices are Open (36%).Route not published26%(48 notices)
48 of 184 notices are Route not published (26%).Selective1%(2 notices)
2 of 184 notices are Selective (1%).
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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 13 lots from this buyer’s competitions, 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 184 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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| B. Braun Medical Limited | 24 | 10.9% | 7 | 108 | — |
| Sandoz | 15 | 6.8% | 9 | 25 | — |
| Teva UK Ltd | 14 | 6.3% | 7 | 30 | — |
| Medtronic Limited | 14 | 6.3% | 6 | 84 | — |
| Pfizer Ltd | 13 | 5.9% | 9 | 22 | — |
| Roche Products Ltd | 13 | 5.9% | 8 | 21 | — |
| Viatris UK Healthcare Ltd | 12 | 5.4% | 5 | 20 | — |
| Baxter Healthcare Ltd | 11 | 5% | 5 | 25 | — |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 19% of 221 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 656 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 published VAT-exclusive awards to single suppliers, last 24 months. Left out: concession revenue, framework ceilings, repeated notices, equal-value duplicates.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
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The middle published award value for this buyer.
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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| National Out Of Hours Systems | Advanced Health and Care | — | — | £15,158,695 † |
| Flu Vaccines for Over-65s as recommended by JCVI for 2026/27 | Seqirus UK Ltd | — | — | £9,607,615 † |
| Influenza Vaccine for adults aged 65 years and above as recommended by JCVI for 2025/26 | Seqirus UK Ltd | — | — | £9,230,000 † |
| Microsoft Unified Performance Support | Microsoft Ltd | — | — | £9,009,782 † |
| Microsoft Unified Performance Support | Computacenter | — | — | £8,418,435 † |
Contracts endingi
Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
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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.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
Published end dates only · 2,624 of 3,507 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 292 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| Central Venous CathetersCatheter accessories | Awarded / complete | 6 Oct 2026 | £13,000,000 |
| Decontamination Equipment, Maintenance and Associated AccessoriesDecontamination equipment | Awarded / complete | 1 Oct 2026 | £10,000,000 |
| Auto-injectors for PET-CT ServiceMedical consumables | Awarded / complete | 30 Sept 2026 | — |
| Insulin Infusion Pumps, Continuous Glucose Monitoring Systems and Associated ConsumablesDevices and instruments for infusion | Awarded / complete | 29 Sept 2026 | £140,000,000 |
| Facilities DisposablesBuckets | Awarded / complete | 21 Aug 2026 | £10,000,000 |
| Advanced Physiological Monitoring Consumables (Pulse Oximetry, Depth of Anaesthesia EEG, and Cerebral Oximetry (NIRS))Medical consumables | Open | 31 Jul 2026 | £12,000,000 |
| NP38626 Compounded Aseptic MedicinesPharmaceutical products | Awarded / complete | 30 Jul 2026 | £21,915,834 |
| Islet Cell Processing SystemsMedical equipments | Awarded / complete | 22 Jul 2026 | — |
| C002181 Building on the NES Education and Career Pathway for Adult Integrated Community Nursing in Scotland.Education and training services | Awarded / complete | 17 Jul 2026 | — |
| Cleaning Wipe Products Surface and PatientWipes | Awarded / complete | 12 Jun 2026 | £18,800,000 |
| Cath Labs and Cardiology StentsBalloon catheters | Awarded / complete | 12 Jun 2026 | £40,800,000 |
| NP57026 Disposable Medical Pulp and Associated ProductsMedical consumables | Awarded / complete | 11 Jun 2026 | £11,406,834 |
| Surgical GlovesSurgical gloves | Awarded / complete | 4 Jun 2026 | £13,000,000 |
| Orthotic ConsumablesMedical consumables | Awarded / complete | 26 May 2026 | £1,600,000 |
| NP36126 Antibiotic & Genito Urinary MedicinesPharmaceutical products | Awarded / complete | 25 May 2026 | £88,941,093 |
| Microsoft Unified Performance SupportIT services: consulting | Awarded / complete | 20 May 2026 | — |
| Operating Tables & Theatre LightingMattresses | Open | 20 May 2026 | £2,000,000 |
| Information Technology Service ManagementIT services: consulting | Awarded / complete | 8 May 2026 | £4,200,000 |
| Sack HoldersWaste and rubbish containers and bins | Planned | 16 Apr 2026 | £1,303,000 |
| NP51825 Hernia Repair ProductsSurgical implants | Awarded / complete | 10 Apr 2026 | £8,000,000 |
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- One profile per authority. Different spellings and registration numbers of the same body are merged into this profile. It includes tenders the authority ran for other bodies and tenders run on its behalf; spend is credited to the body that pays.
- Values are published values. Award values are what the authority published, excluding VAT and framework ceilings. They are not a budget or total spend.
- Contract end dates. 2,624 of 3,507 published contracts state an end date; those feed “Contracts ending”.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.