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The NHS spends approximately £115bn/year — ~40% of total UK public-sector procurement. WinAContract aggregates every NHS opportunity from Trusts, Integrated Care Boards, NHS Supply Chain, and NHS Shared Business Services into one search.
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The NHS is the UK's largest single buyer, with annual procurement spend of approximately £115bn. Spend is distributed across multiple buying organisations:
NHS procurement clusters into a small number of large spend pools:
We aggregate notices from: Contracts Finder, Find a Tender Service, NHS Supply Chain's eSourcing platform, NHS SBS's framework portal, and the individual trust portals (around 60 trusts publish to their own eSourcing platforms in addition to central portals).
Filter to NHS-only on the contracts search, or browse individual trust pages like NHS England for buyer-level history.
No. Many NHS opportunities are below-threshold spot contracts or framework call-offs from non-Supply-Chain vehicles (NHS SBS frameworks, CCS frameworks, individual trust frameworks). NHS Supply Chain is the route for high-volume commoditised products like consumables.
Typical small contract: 6-12 weeks from tender publication to award. Major frameworks: 4-9 months. Strategic IT programmes: 12-24 months including dialogue.
NHS SBS frameworks have lower entry barriers than NHS Supply Chain and run multi-supplier awards (so you don't have to be one of 3 winners — you can be one of 30). Once on, call-off mini-competitions happen frequently with much lower bid effort.
No — most NHS tenders use MEAT (Most Economically Advantageous Tender) scoring with typical weights of 60% quality / 40% price. Some clinical contracts go up to 80/20 in favour of quality.
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