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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| Storage and Distribution of Seasonal Influenza Vaccines & Other ProductsStorage and warehousing services | Awarded / complete | 3 May 2024 | £2,500,000 |
| NP93420 Rituximab SubcutPharmaceutical products | Awarded / complete | 1 May 2024 | — |
| Peritoneal Dialysis at HomePharmaceutical products | Awarded / complete | 10 Apr 2024 | — |
| NP814/23 Biomass Wood Fuel SupplyFuel wood | Awarded / complete | 9 Apr 2024 | £10,000,000 |
| Indwelling Urinary Catheters & Drainage BagsCatheters | Awarded / complete | 9 Apr 2024 | £7,500,000 |
| Flexible Video, Capsule & Rigid Endoscopy Equipment Including Accessories, Maintenance and RepairEndoscopes | Awarded / complete | 8 Apr 2024 | £120,000,000 |
| Supply of Dry IceGases | Cancelled | 27 Mar 2024 | — |
| NP38619 Compounded Aseptic MedicinesPharmaceutical products | Not published | 25 Mar 2024 | — |
| Suction Consumables & Theatre Fluid Waste Management SystemsMedical consumables | Awarded / complete | 15 Feb 2024 | £1,200,000 |
| Purchase of Electrosurgical Devices (Cut & Coagulation, Uterine Ablation)Electrosurgical unit | Awarded / complete | 9 Feb 2024 | £5,900,000 |
| NP57122 Supply and Delivery of Continence ProductsHome delivery of incontinence products | Awarded / complete | 8 Feb 2024 | £84,000,000 |
| NP45723 Storage and Distribution of Seasonal Influenza Vaccines & Other ProductsStorage and warehousing services | Cancelled | 7 Feb 2024 | £3,600,000 |
| NP30723 Medical Gases Supplied in CylindersMedical gases | Awarded / complete | 7 Feb 2024 | £10,800,000 |
| ISBT 128 Donation Identification Number Barcode LabelsBar-coded labels | Awarded / complete | 10 Jan 2024 | — |
| NP37719 Sevoflurane & IsofluranePharmaceutical products | Not published | 8 Jan 2024 | — |
| ElectrosurgicalElectrical | Awarded / complete | 5 Jan 2024 | £6,000,000 |
| PACS ReprovisioningIT services: consulting | Awarded / complete | 21 Dec 2023 | £137,000,000 |
| NP92520b Aflibercept (Eylea®)Pharmaceutical products | Not published | 18 Dec 2023 | — |
| Purchase of Arthroscopy Equipment, Implants & consumablesBlades | Awarded / complete | 13 Dec 2023 | £18,000,000 |
| Bread Rolls and Tea Bread ProductsBakery products | Awarded / complete | 27 Nov 2023 | £7,000,000 |
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.