University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

NHS ODS: NHS TRUSTCentral governmentWest MidlandsStoke on TrentRan 3 procurements for other authorities

Official UK PPONPHBX-7757-YPYDWebsiteuhnm.nhs.uk ↗

Open now1next deadline 5 Oct 2026
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Tenders you can still bid for.

Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.

Notices, last 12 months43-19% vs prior 12 months (53)
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Notices published in the last 12 months.

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

Top-3 supplier share20%of 30 awarded procedures · 28 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.

30 awarded tenders, 28 different suppliers.

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

All awards we hold.

Contracts ending ≤18 months62 within 6 months
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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.

A likely retender, not a certain one.

Published award value, 24m£3.8mnet · on 23 of 23 single-supplier awards · top 5 = 69%
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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.

Open notices

1 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build

NoticeDeadlineDays leftPublished value
The Supply of Bipolar Forceps5 Oct 20265d£18,333

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 · 96 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 61% (59 notices)
  • Framework 39% (37 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.

  • Route not published 47% (45 notices)
  • Open 29% (28 notices)
  • Direct award 8% (8 notices)
  • Limited / restricted 8% (8 notices)
  • Selective 7% (7 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 2 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.

Last 24 months, all categories.

1.5indicative · n=250% 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 96 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

019 of 96 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 8 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months.

A past pattern, not a price to bid.

Last 24 months.

0.5% below estimaterobust · n=8

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
North Staffordshire GP Federation310%3311 Sept 2026
Ontex Healthcare UK Limited26.7%0216 Sept 2021
Everyone Health Limited13.3%1118 Nov 2024
MEDINET CLINICAL SERVICES LTD13.3%1116 Sept 2026
Beckman Coulter United Kingdom Limited13.3%114 Apr 2025
Chelmer Surgical Supply Ltd13.3%1113 Nov 2025
ECOLAB GB 1 LTD13.3%1114 Nov 2025
Functional Gut Diagnostics T/A The Functional Gut Clinic13.3%1126 Mar 2026

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 20% of 30 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 28 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.

£3.8mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 23 of 23 single-supplier awards; the five largest make 69%.
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.

£75k middle valuerobust · n=23Middle half £47k–£130k.
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
GP Services for Enhanced Primary Care Services (EhPC)North Staffordshire GP Federation——£803,498 †
Provision of Insourced ENT SupportMEDINET CLINICAL SERVICES LTD——£677,092 †
Provision of Perfusion Services to Deliver Core Cardiac Theatre ActivityAssured Perfusion and Medical Services Limited——£450,000 †
Sterile IPA and Hydrogen Peroxide Pouch WipesECOLAB GB 1 LTD14 Nov 20253 yrs£371,574
≈ £124k/yr
Provision of Staffing Neurophysiology Outpatient Capacity on Evenings and Weekends within the Royal Stoke University Hospital (RSUH) Neurophysiology DepartmentNeurophysCare Ltd——£288,000 †

Contracts ending
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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.

A likely retender, not a certain one.

Published end dates only · 13 of 29 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast

Recent procedures

Latest 50 of 119 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
Pharmacy Aseptic Lab WipesWipesAwarded / complete14 Nov 2025£379,916
MED2014 - Neuro PattiesMedical consumablesAwarded / complete13 Nov 2025£51,818
WBF0900 - Salt Tablets for Purifying WaterSaltOpen5 Nov 2025£90,000
MED 6037- Glucose and Ketone Testing at Point of CarePathology servicesAwarded / complete28 Oct 2025£1,500,000
MED3327 -RADIO FREQUENCY ABLATION CONSUMABLES FOR VARICOSE VEINSMedical consumablesAwarded / complete1 Oct 2025£71,666
Provision of Blood Sciences Managed Laboratory ServiceAnalysersOpen26 Sept 2025£280,000,000
Pharmacy Aseptic Lab WipesWipesOpen22 Sept 2025£379,916
MED1006 - UROLOGY CONSUMABLESUrologyOpen3 Sept 2025£113,333
MED1006 - UROLOGY CONSUMABLESUrologyOpen3 Sept 2025£113,333

Search all 119 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 (£434m, 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 22 procedures (23 to a single canonical supplier, 0 multi-supplier). 21 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: 13 of 29 published contracts carry a period end; 6 end within 18 months, 2 within 6.
  • Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (5 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)

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

GB-FTS-129332GB-FTS-142976GB-FTS-61131GB-FTS-7672GB-NHS-RJE

Canonical page id: GB-PPON-PHBX-7757-YPYD