University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

NHS ODS: NHS TRUSTCentral governmentNorth West EnglandKendalRan 1 procurement for other authorities

Official UK PPONPGWW-7958-CHJDWebsiteuhmb.nhs.uk ↗

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Tenders you can still bid for.

Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.

Notices, last 12 months19+138% vs prior 12 months (8)
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Notices published in the last 12 months.

Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.

Typical bids per lot30% single-bid · 4 bid reports
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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 4 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.

Last 24 months, all categories.

Top-3 supplier share34%of 29 awarded procedures · 22 suppliers
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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.

29 awarded tenders, 22 different suppliers.

Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.

All awards we hold.

Published award value, 24m£20mnet · on 16 of 22 single-supplier awards · top 5 = 90%
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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.

What they buy
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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

How they buy
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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 · 27 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim

Commercial tool
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How work here is packaged.

Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.

  • Contract 85% (23 notices)
  • Framework 15% (4 notices)
Procedure route
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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 / restricted 78% (21 notices)
  • Open 15% (4 notices)
  • Route not published 7% (2 notices)
Typical bids per lot
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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 4 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.

Last 24 months, all categories.

3moderate · n=40% of lots drew a single bid
Notice amendments
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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 27 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

06 of 27 notices amended
Award vs estimate
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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 2 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months. Small sample.

A past pattern, not a price to bid.

Last 24 months.

4.8% above estimateindicative · n=2

Who wins here
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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

SupplierProceduresShareLast 24mAward recordsLast activity
WHISTL UK LIMITEDframework/DPS on 4517.2%553 Jun 2026
THE JAMES MERCER GROUP LIMITED310.3%332 Apr 2026
DAY Project Management Limited26.9%2213 Jul 2026
Multi Health Specialists Limited13.4%1126 Jun 2026
Lancashire Hospital Services Limited13.4%114 Feb 2025
Hydraclean Limited13.4%115 Jun 2026
Energy Efficient Solutions Group Ltd13.4%115 Nov 2025
Gables UK Limited13.4%1130 Dec 2025

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 34% of 29 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 22 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards — not a statement of preference.

Published award value (24m)
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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.

£20mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 16 of 22 single-supplier awards; the five largest make 90%.
Typical single-supplier award (24m)
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What one of this buyer’s contracts is usually worth.

Middle value of the same awards as the total above.

Last 24 months.

£251k middle valuerobust · n=16Middle half £119k–£865k.
Largest published awards
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The 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.

SupplierAwardedTermPublished value
Outpatient Pharmacy ServicesLancashire Hospital Services Limited——£12,000,000 †
Security Guards and Care Led Security SupervisionLingwood Security Management Ltd——£2,276,046 †
Furness General Hospital High Level Roof Replacement- RS5Gables UK Limited——£1,496,995 †
The installation of Solar PanelsEnergy Efficient Solutions Group Ltd——£1,426,667 †
Architectural Services for UHMB Diagnostic SchemesDay Architectural Limited——£678,086 †

Recent procedures

Latest 38 of 37 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
Electronic Patient Record System Contract TermMedical software packageAwarded / complete28 May 2025—
The provision of a DSA postage model for University Hospitals Morecambe Bay NHSFrameworkPost and courier servicesAwarded / complete2 May 2025—
The provision of a DSA postage model for University Hospitals Morecambe Bay NHSFrameworkPost and courier servicesAwarded / complete2 May 2025—
The provision of a DSA postage model for University Hospitals Morecambe Bay NHSFrameworkPost and courier servicesAwarded / complete2 May 2025—
The provision of a DSA postage model for University Hospitals Morecambe Bay NHSFrameworkPost and courier servicesAwarded / complete2 May 2025—
Outpatient Pharmacy ServicesPharmacy servicesAwarded / complete4 Feb 2025—
The provision of outpatient pharmacy services for University Hospitals Morecambe Bay NHS, Blackpool Teaching Hospital NHS, East Lancashire Hospitals NHS and Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trusts.Pharmacy servicesPlanned19 Dec 2024—
Provision of Taxi Services2 lotsMedical furniturePlanned14 Oct 2024£600,000
Grounds and Gardens Maintenance4 lotsLandscape gardening servicesAwarded / complete15 Jul 2024—
Verification of Critical Ventilation SystemsVentilation consultancy servicesAwarded / complete15 May 2024—
Provision of Bariatric Equipment2 lotsMedical furnitureOpen23 Apr 2024£630,000
Maintenance of GeneratorsRepair and maintenance services of generatorsAwarded / complete7 Mar 2024—
Fire Alarm SystemsFire-alarm systemsAwarded / complete20 Nov 2023—
Building Management Systems and Plant Control InstallationsRepair and maintenance services of electrical and mechanical building installationsAwarded / complete6 Dec 2022—
Domestic Waste Management & Recycling Services7 lotsNon-hazardous refuse and waste treatment and disposal servicesOpen19 Oct 2022£1,250,000
Inspection, maintenance and reactive repairs for Emergency/Standby Generator SetsRepair and maintenance services of generatorsAwarded / complete6 Oct 2022—
Patient Transport Servicescentral purchasing bodyAmbulance servicesAwarded / complete3 Sept 2021—
Patient Transport Servicescentral purchasing bodyAmbulance servicesOpen14 May 2021—

Search all 37 procedures for this authority →

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 (£12m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
  • Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 23 award records on 23 procedures (22 to a single canonical supplier, 0 multi-supplier, 1 with no supplier published). 14 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: 2 of 30 published contracts carry a period end; 0 end within 18 months, 0 within 6.
  • Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (7 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)

Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.

GB-FTS-107236GB-FTS-16318GB-FTS-16319GB-FTS-1912GB-FTS-66301GB-FTS-73205GB-NHS-RTX

Canonical page id: GB-PPON-PGWW-7958-CHJD