Somerset NHS Foundation Trust: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
NHS ODS: NHS TRUST·Central government·South West England·Taunton
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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 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 23 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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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.
370 awarded tenders, 285 different suppliers.
Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Contracts ending in that window by the published end date or, where only a duration is published, an estimate from signature plus duration (marked). Neither, not counted.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of published VAT-exclusive awards to single suppliers, last 24 months. Left out: concession revenue, framework ceilings, repeated notices, equal-value duplicates.
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
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
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| Antenatal Ward Relocation to Block 14 (SFT-BT-C464875) | 30 Oct 2026 | 3d | £1,200,000 |
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
85 Health and social work services76 procedures · 21%33 Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals27 procedures · 8%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet18 procedures · 5%48 Software package and information systems15 procedures · 4%45 Construction work5 procedures · 1% · 1 open50 Repair and maintenance services5 procedures · 1%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting5 procedures · 1%90 Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental4 procedures · 1%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 · 356 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.
Contract97%(345 notices)
345 of 356 notices are Contract (97%).Framework3%(11 notices)
11 of 356 notices are Framework (3%).
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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.
Direct award46%(162 notices)
162 of 356 notices are Direct award (46%).Limited / restricted36%(128 notices)
128 of 356 notices are Limited / restricted (36%).Route not published11%(40 notices)
40 of 356 notices are Route not published (11%).Open6%(23 notices)
23 of 356 notices are Open (6%).Selective1%(3 notices)
3 of 356 notices are Selective (1%).
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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 23 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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How long this buyer takes to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on this buyer’s own tenders.
Based on 9 decided tenders across all categories, last 24 months.
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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 356 notices across all categories, last 24 months.
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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 6 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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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| SOMERSET SURGICAL SERVICES LTD | 12 | 3.2% | 7 | 13 | — |
| Knight Electrical Limited | 10 | 2.7% | 9 | 10 | 3 Mar 2026 |
| AGITO Medical AS | 6 | 1.6% | 6 | 6 | — |
| Hologic Ltd | 5 | 1.4% | 5 | 5 | 3 Aug 2026 |
| ICS Operations trading as Xyla Services | 5 | 1.4% | 4 | 5 | — |
| Philips Electronics UK Limited | 4 | 1.1% | 4 | 4 | — |
| Rethink Trading Limited | 4 | 1.1% | 1 | 5 | — |
| R.T.S. Engineering (Somerset) LTD | 3 | 0.8% | 3 | 3 | — |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 8% of 370 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 285 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards, not a statement of preference.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of published VAT-exclusive awards to single suppliers, last 24 months. Left out: concession revenue, framework ceilings, repeated notices, equal-value duplicates.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
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The middle published award value for this buyer.
Middle value of the same awards as the total above.
Largest published awards iThe 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. | Supplier | Awarded | Term | Published value |
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| Variation for construction and operation of a Community Diagnostics Facility | ALTHEA UK AND IRELAND LIMITED | — | — | £37,539,000 † |
| Variation for construction and operation of a Community Diagnostics Facility | ALTHEA UK AND IRELAND LIMITED | 30 May 2025 | 1.9 yrs | £14,336,000 ≈ £7.5m/yr |
| Contract for the Supply of Blood Components, Reagents and Services | NHS BLOOD AND TRANSPLANT (NHSBT) | — | — | £4,471,659 † |
| Dell PC's, Laptops, Servers and Storage | Dell Corporation Ltd | — | — | £3,360,000 † |
| Community Investigation Hubs | Bridgwater PCN | — | — | £2,884,420 † |
Contracts endingi
Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Contracts ending in that window by the published end date or, where only a duration is published, an estimate from signature plus duration (marked). Neither, not counted.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Contracts ending in that window by the published end date or, where only a duration is published, an estimate from signature plus duration (marked). Neither, not counted.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
242 of 391 contracts carry an end date, 8 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| CSO Perseus Microscope | Hanson Instruments Ltd | 30 Oct 2026 | £17,795 |
| Executive Team & Board Development | CO CREATE LTD | 31 Oct 2026 | £23,170 |
| Jubilee Garden External Lighting Upgrade | PURPLELUX LIGHTING SOLUTIONS LTD | 31 Oct 2026 | £21,111 |
| MS39 OCT Anterior Segment Analysis Device | Hanson Instruments Ltd | 31 Oct 2026 | £71,185 |
| Replacement of Tek Screws | R.T.S. Engineering (Somerset) LTD | 6 Nov 2026 | £28,052 |
| Renewal of safety-critical steam distribution infrastructure | Spirax-Sarco Limited | 6 Nov 2026 | £29,164 |
| Replacement of five AGSS pumps | M&M Medical Ltd | 6 Nov 2026 | £51,208 |
| CAPRO124 327.0 Alteration Works to Histopathology | Qube Construct Ltd | 6 Nov 2026 | £127,053 |
| Provision of community-based support for mental health services | Rethink Trading Limited | 8 Nov 2026 estimated | £22,233,380 |
Soonest 9 of 115 contracts ending within 18 months.
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 414 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement
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. 242 of 391 published contracts have an end date; 8 of those are estimated as the signature (or publication) date plus the published duration and are marked “estimated”. They feed “Contracts ending”, the same rule as the retender radar.
- 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.