Buyer profile
Department of Health and Social Care
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Total contracts
831
Known spend
£13bn
813 disclosed
Average value
£16m
Per contract
Active suppliers
7
Last 5 years
Top suppliers
Last 5 years- 1
ROBERTSON BELL LTD
3 winslatest 14 Jul 2026£230,850
- 2
Oracle Corporation Uk Limited
1 winlatest 20 Aug 2026£1m
- 3
ATOS IT SERVICES UK LIMITED
1 winlatest 02 Jun 2026£1m
- 4
MILLS & REEVE LLP
1 winlatest 15 Jun 2026£250,000
- 5
Berkeley Square IT Ltd
1 winlatest 23 Sept 2026£81,795
- 6
EBSCO Information Services
1 winlatest 21 Jul 2026£21,233
- 7
TITUS LEARNING LTD.
1 winlatest 10 Jun 2026£6,310
What they buy
By CPV categoryMedical equipment & pharmaCPV 33
191 contracts · £5bn
Security & defenceCPV 35
171 contracts · £4bn
Business servicesCPV 79
112 contracts · £832m
IT servicesCPV 72
76 contracts · £70m
Health & social workCPV 85
40 contracts · £1bn
SoftwareCPV 48
40 contracts · £166m
Furniture & furnishingsCPV 39
33 contracts · £194m
Architectural & engineeringCPV 71
23 contracts · £386m
Renewal radar
Awarded contracts predicted to come up for re-tender in the next 18 months
- DHSC: TD: HDRS Corporate technical specialist data services MR
Predicted using median duration of UK contracts in the same CPV division (11 months from contract start date → renewal expected by Apr 2027).
Apr 2027
40% confident
- DHSC: Fin: Interim Senior Financial Accountant
Predicted using median duration of UK contracts in the same CPV division (11 months from contract start date → renewal expected by Jun 2027).
Jun 2027
40% confident
- DHSC: Fin: Interim Financial Accountant
Predicted using median duration of UK contracts in the same CPV division (11 months from contract start date → renewal expected by Jun 2027).
Jun 2027
40% confident
- DHSC: Fin: Interim Financial Accountant
Predicted using median duration of UK contracts in the same CPV division (11 months from contract start date → renewal expected by Jun 2027).
Jun 2027
40% confident
Tender activity
Notices published per month — last 24 months
All contracts (831)
Supply of tubes and funnels for Covid-19 testing
Call Off Contract under the Pathology and Point of Care Testing, Associated Equipment, Instruments, Consumables and Accessories and Managed Services (2019/S 212-519575) framework a
Supply of printer software, installation and training
Supply of Printer software, installation and training
Support for CDO & joint biosecurity centre
Support for CDO & Joint Biosecurity Centre support Amendment
Purchase of automated LFT reel to reel dispensing and lamination equipment
Purchase of automated LFT reel to reel dispensing and lamination equipment.
Automated LFT cassette assembly and pick and place equipment
Provision of High Speed Automated LFT Cassette Assembly Equipment.
Managed learning services
The provision of managed learning services to assist the national testing programme in response to Covid-19.
Temperature controlled courier services
Temperature controlled courier services for clinical samples to be delivered to external laboratories for validation
Supply of wastewater network sampling
Supply of Wastewater Network Sampling in support of Mass Whole Town Testing to the Department of Health and Social Care - NHS Test and Trace
Life technologies - services and support thermo fisher
Professional maintenance and support of equipment across the DHSC Covid-19, Pillar 2 (3rd Party Testing) programme across the Lighthouse Lab testing estate. Decommission and re-ins
Supply of injection moulding tooling, to enable increased manufacturing of LFT s
Tools to be used to make design specific plastic components critical to the performance of Lateral Flow Tests in conjunction with injection moulding machines.
Purchase of flow wrapping equipment
Provision of flow wrapping equipment for automatically foil wrapping assembled LFT Cassettes at high capacity.
Semi-automated LFT cassette assembly and pick and place equipment
Provision of Flow Wrapping Equipment for semi-automatically foil wrapping assembled LFT Cassettes at high capacity. This contract was issued in EUR.
Purchase of flow wrapping equipment
Provision of Flow Wrapping Equipment for automatically foil wrapping assembled LFT Cassettes at high capacity.
Accplex SARS - CoV-2 reference material positive control
Provision of AccPlex SARS - CoV-2 Reference Material Positive Control
Security and surveillance services
Provision of Security and Surveillance Services
Security training package - test & trace
Security training licence for Test & Trace
Mailing of hard copy briefing packs
Mailing hard copy briefing packs to call handlers.
Manufacture of automated LFT cassette assembly and pick and place equipment
Provision of high speed automated LFT cassette assembly equipment.
Manufacture of automated LFT cassette assembly and pick and place equipment
Provision of high speed automated LFT cassette assembly equipment.
Care provider alliance winter plan
To support the crucial actions in the published ASC Winter Plan, DHSC needs to work with system partners, one of which is the Care Provider Alliance (CPA), to support the provider