The Common Services Agency (more commonly known as NHS National Services Scotland) ("the Authority"): Contract Register & Procurement Profile
NHS & health·Scotland·Edinburgh
Find a Tender organisation id4546
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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.
13 awarded tenders, 113 different suppliers.
Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.
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, pharmaceuticals1 procedures · 50%45 Construction work1 procedures · 50%50 Repair and maintenance services1 procedures · 50%71 Architectural, construction, engineering1 procedures · 50%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 · 2 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.
Contract50%(1 notices)
1 of 2 notices are Contract (50%).Framework50%(1 notices)
1 of 2 notices are Framework (50%).
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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.
Open50%(1 notices)
1 of 2 notices are Open (50%).Route not published50%(1 notices)
1 of 2 notices are Route not published (50%).
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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| Teva UK Ltd | 9 | 69.2% | 1 | 25 | — |
| Sandoz | 8 | 61.5% | 1 | 19 | — |
| Pfizer Ltd | 8 | 61.5% | 1 | 16 | — |
| Morningside Pharmaceuticals Limited | 8 | 61.5% | 1 | 11 | — |
| Martindale Pharma | 7 | 53.8% | 1 | 18 | — |
| Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Europe Ltd | 7 | 53.8% | 1 | 12 | — |
| Viatris UK Healthcare Ltd | 7 | 53.8% | 1 | 12 | — |
| Zentiva Pharma UK Ltd | 7 | 53.8% | 0 | 16 | — |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 77% of 13 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 113 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards, not a statement of preference.
Recent procedures
Latest 17 of 17 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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| NP40925 Analgesics, Anaesthetics, Musculoskeletal & Joint Disease MedicinesPharmaceutical products | Awarded / complete | 6 Jan 2026 | £52,999,636 |
| NHSScotland Frameworks Scotland 3Advisory architectural services | Not published | 28 May 2025 | — |
| Contrast Media AgentsPharmaceutical products | Awarded / complete | 27 Jun 2024 | £44,036,295 |
| NP40923 Analgesics, Anaesthetics, Musculoskeletal & Joint Disease MedicinesPharmaceutical products | Awarded / complete | 7 Mar 2024 | £35,467,873 |
| Generic and Biosimilar Cancer MedicinesPharmaceutical products | Awarded / complete | 21 Apr 2023 | £59,145,973 |
| NP36722 Fertility ProductsPharmaceutical products | Awarded / complete | 18 Jan 2023 | £6,490,616 |
| NP41422 Contraceptive MedicinesContraceptives | Awarded / complete | 31 Oct 2022 | — |
| NP39722f LenalidomidePharmaceutical products | Awarded / complete | 21 Sept 2022 | — |
| NP41422 Contraceptive MedicinesPharmaceutical products | Not published | 13 Jul 2022 | — |
| NP41422 Contraceptive MedicinesContraceptives | Open | 8 Jul 2022 | £7,369,432 |
| NP39722f LenalidomidePharmaceutical products | Not published | 5 Jul 2022 | — |
| NP39722f LenalidomidePharmaceutical products | Open | 7 Jun 2022 | £4,300,000 |
| Generic Medicines Transition TenderPharmaceutical products | Awarded / complete | 20 May 2022 | £7,343,989 |
| Analgesics, Anaesthetics, Musculoskeletal & Joint Disease Generic MedicinePharmaceutical products | Awarded / complete | 3 Feb 2022 | £19,205,951 |
| Cardiovascular & Respiratory MedicinesPharmaceutical products | Awarded / complete | 7 Apr 2021 | — |
| NHSScotland Frameworks Scotland 3Advisory architectural services | Awarded / complete | 4 Mar 2021 | — |
| Oncology Generics MedicinesPharmaceutical products | Awarded / complete | 5 Feb 2021 | — |
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. 7 of 153 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.