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 5 of 5 notices
Find a Tender organisation id322
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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 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.
401 awarded tenders, 872 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
2 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
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| Public Healthcare - Outsourcing DPS | 29 Oct 2026 | 8d | — |
| Services at NHSS Hospitals - Insourcing DPS | 15 Sept 2027 | 329d | £150,000,000 |
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
15 Food, drink, tobacco2 procedures · 40%33 Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals2 procedures · 40%50 Repair and maintenance services2 procedures · 40%31 Electrical machinery1 procedures · 20%38 Laboratory, optical and precision1 procedures · 20%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 · 5 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.
Framework80%(4 notices)
4 of 5 notices are Framework (80%).Contract20%(1 notices)
1 of 5 notices are Contract (20%).
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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.
Open100%(5 notices)
5 of 5 notices are Open (100%).
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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 1 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.
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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 5 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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| Medtronic Limited | 25 | 6.2% | 0 | 78 | — |
| Baxter Healthcare Ltd | 22 | 5.5% | 0 | 48 | — |
| B. Braun Medical Limited | 19 | 4.7% | 0 | 64 | — |
| Stryker UK Ltd | 18 | 4.5% | 0 | 63 | — |
| Teva UK Ltd | 17 | 4.2% | 0 | 29 | — |
| JOHNSON & JOHNSON MEDICAL LTD | 13 | 3.2% | 0 | 56 | — |
| TJ Smith and Nephew Ltd (Trading as Smith & Nephew) | 12 | 3% | 0 | 43 | — |
| Fresenius Medical Care (UK) Limited | 12 | 3% | 0 | 34 | — |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 12% of 401 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 872 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.
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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| Nucleic Acid Testing (NAT) Managed Service | ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS LIMITED | — | — | £7,300,000 † |
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 · 61 of 1,106 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| NP721-21 NHS Scotland National Uniform | MWUK t/a Dimensions | 30 Nov 2027 | £16,218,000 |
| NHS Scotland - Scottish Ambulance Service | Alsico Laucuba Ltd T/A Meltemi Ltd | 30 Nov 2027 | £4,205,000 |
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 466 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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| Intravenous & Topical FluidsPharmaceutical products | Open | 26 Jun 2026 | £39,671,652 |
| Nucleic Acid Testing (NAT) Managed ServiceRepair and maintenance services of medical equipment | Awarded / complete | 20 Oct 2025 | — |
| Medical Refrigeration and Cold Chain EquipmentElectrical equipment and apparatus | Awarded / complete | 7 Oct 2025 | £3,000,000 |
| Prepared Vegetables and Potato Products, Fresh Fruit and VegetablesFood | Awarded / complete | 7 Oct 2025 | £9,290,419 |
| Frozen FoodFood | Awarded / complete | 7 Oct 2025 | £26,000,000 |
| Clinical ApheresisMedical consumables | Awarded / complete | 23 Sept 2025 | — |
| NP86721 PCR Test Kit Assembly and Distribution ServicePackaging and related services | Awarded / complete | 7 Jul 2025 | £12,000,000 |
| Sample Archive StorageStorage and retrieval services | Awarded / complete | 29 Apr 2025 | — |
| NHS Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service (SNBTS) Cell Therapy eSolutionIT services: consulting | Cancelled | 8 Apr 2025 | — |
| Homecare Services for the supply of Parenteral Nutrition bagsMedicinal products for functional gastrointestinal disorders | Awarded / complete | 17 Jan 2025 | — |
| Waste BagsPolythene waste and refuse sacks and bags | Awarded / complete | 12 Dec 2024 | — |
| Anaesthetic Gases (Sevoflurane & Isoflurane)Pharmaceutical products | Awarded / complete | 12 Dec 2024 | £5,023,275 |
| NHSScotland Lead Advisor Consultant Framework (2023)Advisory architectural services | Awarded / complete | 14 Oct 2024 | £28,400,000 |
| ENT, Ophthalmology & Skin Medicines/Medical DevicesPharmaceutical products | Awarded / complete | 23 Sept 2024 | £15,558,988 |
| Pharmacogenomics Informed Medications Management ServicePharmacy services | Cancelled | 3 Sept 2024 | £66,000,000 |
| Enzyme Replacement Therapy MedicinesPharmaceutical products | Awarded / complete | 15 Aug 2024 | — |
| Enzyme Replacement Therapy MedicinesPharmaceutical products | Awarded / complete | 15 Aug 2024 | — |
| Cleanroom laundryLaundry-collection services | Awarded / complete | 4 Jul 2024 | — |
| Chemotherapy ePrescribing and Administration System [CEPAS]IT services: consulting | Planned | 31 May 2024 | £2,500,000 |
| DressingsDressings | Awarded / complete | 23 May 2024 | £10,000,000 |
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. 61 of 1,106 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.