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Buyer profile · NHS and health
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care acting as part of the Crown through UK Health Security Agency tenders and contracts
- Tenders published
- 19
- About one every 19 days
- Contracts awarded
- 172
- To 260 different suppliers
- Value awarded
- £2.15bn
- 164 contracts, frameworks excluded
- Typical contract
- £64k
- Median value awarded
- Open now
- 1
- 11 contracts end in 90 days
Figures cover in the last 12 months, from notices on Find a Tender and Contracts Finder.
Open tenders
- £400mframework ceiling
Coming up
Pipeline, market engagement and planned procurement notices: early warning of tenders to come.
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- £600kestimated
- Value not stated
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- £1estimated
- Value not stated
- £1framework ceiling
When it goes to market
Tender notices published each month. Active in 8 of 12 months.
What it buys
Procurements in the last 12 months, by trade.
Who it buys from
Suppliers awarded contracts in the last 12 months, by value awarded (frameworks excluded).
How it buys
How much of its work was open to any supplier.
- Advertised openly (any supplier could bid)15%
- Framework call-off (only suppliers on the framework)3%
- Invited quotes (the buyer chose whom to ask)3%
- Direct award (no competition)79%
Scorecard
How we scoreHow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care acting as part of the Crown through UK Health Security Agency has bought over the last 12 months, compared with similar buyers.
- Time to bid
- 32 days
- Longer than 65% of NHS and health bodies
- Based on 16 advertised tenders
- Advertised openly
- 15%
- Higher than 57% of NHS and health bodies
- Based on 184 procurements
- Won by small firms
- 49%
- Higher than 58% of NHS and health bodies
- Based on 285 winning suppliers
- Bids per contract
- 3
- About the same as most NHS and health bodies
- Based on 25 awards
- Split into lots
- 21%
- Higher than 65% of NHS and health bodies
- Based on 19 advertised tenders
- Direct awards
- 79%
- Higher than 57% of NHS and health bodies
- Based on 184 procurements
- Cancelled
- 0%
- About the same as most NHS and health bodies
- Based on 19 tenders
Compared with other NHS and health bodies
This buyer: 32 days
Show as a table
| Range | Buyers |
|---|---|
| 0–5 days | 0 |
| 5–10 days | 2 |
| 10–15 days | 2 |
| 15–20 days | 1 |
| 20–25 days | 4 |
| 25–30 days | 35 |
| 30–35 days | 28 |
| 35–40 days | 7 |
| 40–45 days | 2 |
| 45–50 days | 1 |
| 50–55 days | 0 |
| 55–60 days | 0 |
| 60+ days | 0 |
This buyer: 3
Show as a table
| Range | Buyers |
|---|---|
| 0–2 bids | 9 |
| 2–4 bids | 35 |
| 4–6 bids | 19 |
| 6–8 bids | 9 |
| 8–10 bids | 1 |
| 10–12 bids | 0 |
| 12–14 bids | 2 |
| 14–16 bids | 1 |
| 16–18 bids | 0 |
| 18–20 bids | 0 |
| 20+ bids | 1 |
This buyer: 15%
Show as a table
| Range | Buyers |
|---|---|
| 0–10% | 115 |
| 10–20% | 56 |
| 20–30% | 34 |
| 30–40% | 13 |
| 40–50% | 17 |
| 50–60% | 14 |
| 60–70% | 10 |
| 70–80% | 6 |
| 80–90% | 6 |
| 90–100% | 8 |
This buyer: 49%
Show as a table
| Range | Buyers |
|---|---|
| 0–10% | 5 |
| 10–20% | 20 |
| 20–30% | 35 |
| 30–40% | 49 |
| 40–50% | 51 |
| 50–60% | 39 |
| 60–70% | 24 |
| 70–80% | 26 |
| 80–90% | 18 |
| 90–100% | 7 |
Each column is a group of NHS and health bodies with similar figures. The coloured column holds Secretary of State for Health and Social Care acting as part of the Crown through UK Health Security Agency.See the full scoreboard
Contracts ending in the next 90 days
Contracts like these are often re-tendered. Knowing early gives you time to prepare.
| Contract | Current supplier | Value | Ends |
|---|---|---|---|
| ICP-MS Trade in and upgrade | Thermo Electron Manufacturing T/A Thermo Fisher Scientific | £91k | 30 Nov 2026 |
| Purchase of a Bespoke TLD Wrapper | MGE Automation Limited | £121k | 30 Dec 2026 |
| Data Camp licences for the Epidemic & Emerging Infections Directorate 2025-2026 | Datacamp Inc | £28k | 31 Dec 2026 |
| PHE_Scientific_Provision of Fungitell kits, pipettes and assay plates - Variation 7 | Associates of Cape Cod International Inc. | £3.46m | 31 Dec 2026 |
| Tscan Temperature Monitoring Contract 2026 | T-Scan Limited | £98k | 31 Dec 2026 |
| RADA Workshop | KPMG LLP | £19k | 31 Dec 2026 |
| GBRU - Myra Liquid Handling Robots x 3 | Bio Molecular Systems Ltd | £93k | 31 Dec 2026 |
| Didcot - Purchase of GC-MS Pyrolyser | Analytix Limited | £29k | 31 Dec 2026 |
| Procurement of Hollowfibre model at CL3 | Bio-Connect B.V. | £42k | 31 Dec 2026 |
| Chemicals and Radiation Incident Preparedness and Response | Bureau Veritas | £16k | 31 Dec 2026 |
| CRE 24-Well Assay Reagents and Service | R-Biopharm Rhone Limited | £81k | 8 Feb 2027 |