Quick answer — CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUSTLast refreshed 11 May 2026

At a glance

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST has awarded £29.8m across 388 suppliers, with 668 live contracts.

Why: Top supplier share 15% · 35 open notices now · 8 awards in last 90 d (£3.3m) · SME share 18% (Cabinet Office target 33%) · 2 modifications in last 90 d.

Decision signals
Top-supplier concentration15%
Modifications · 90 d2
SME spend share18%
Pipeline · open now35
Awards · 90 d8

About this buyer

Mission, scope and statutory context.

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST is a contracting authority, based in UKH12. Tracks 775 published notices and 723 awards on PublicSupply.

775
Notices published
723
Awards
388
Suppliers engaged
2017
First award on file

Spend profile

Award value by month — rolling 24 months. Line shows 12-month moving average.

£8.6m
12 m spend
£4.2m
Prior 12 m
+102%
YoY change
£254k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0m£1m£2m£3m£4mJulOctJanAprJulOctJanApr

Contract pipeline

Forward flow — planned notices through to completed awards in the last 90 days.

Planned

23

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

35

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

8

£3.3m

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

How this buyer procures — by procedure, instrument, and publication source.

Contract type

services41 · £244.8m
Unspecified697 · £27.4m
goods36 · £8.8m
works1 · £0

Instrument type

contract771 · £280.4m
call off4 · £630k
Source:Find a Tender: 690Contracts Finder: 85

Awarded contracts · 668 live

All contracts with a published award notice where CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST is the contracting authority.

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TitleSupplierCPVValueAwardedStatus
Service and Maintenance contract.NHS ENGLANDactive
ConsumablesSysmex UK Limitedactive
Battery ReplacementSTRYKER UK LIMITEDactive
Ultrasound machinesCANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS LIMITEDactive
Hardware service contractINSIGHT DIRECT (UK) LTDactive
Service contractMILTENYI BIOTEC LIMITEDactive
Human Research Tissue Bank System Integration48180000£1.5mest.planning
Consultancy Support for the Development of A Strategic Outline Case (SOC) for: A Commercial Long-term Renewable Energy Private-wire Power Purchase Agreement (PPA)Global City Futures Ltdactive
Temperature control deviceGREENWORKS CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENTS LIMITEDactive
National radiological image transferSECTRA LIMITEDactive
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Top suppliers · by total award value

Ranked by cumulative awarded value. YoY = last 12 months vs prior 12 months.

1
AL
7 contracts · 04 Feb24 Mar
£4.5mest.
15% of total
New
2
JM
4 contracts · SME · 15 May
£2.0m
7% of total
▼ 100%
3
HS
£1.7m
6% of total
New
4
AI
3 contracts · SME · 19 Mar
£1.3m
4% of total
New
5
CU
2 contracts · 10 Sept
£1.0m
3% of total
New
6
BH
1 contract · 21 May
£996k
3% of total
▼ 100%
7
SU
8 contracts · 27 May16 Dec
£881k
3% of total
▲ 423%
8
CL
5 contracts · 11 Mar
£849k
3% of total
New
9388
···
380 other suppliers
long tail · 66 SMEs
£8.3m
28% of total
various

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Sewage, waste, environment
7 contracts
£218.7m
78%
IT services, software
7 contracts
£26.2m
9%
Other
659 contracts
£21.3m
8%
Postal, telecoms
3 contracts
£8.2m
3%
Laboratory, scientific
11 contracts
£2.0m
1%
Software packages, IT
5 contracts
£1.5m
1%
Medical, pharmaceutical
28 contracts
£1.2m
0%
Business, legal, advisory
12 contracts
£1.2m
0%

Activity heatmap

Award volume by CPV division × month. Darker = more £ awarded.

Jul
Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Sewage, waste, environment
IT services, software
Other
0
1
0
1
1
2
3
0
Postal, telecoms
Laboratory, scientific
Software packages, IT
LessMore (£m awarded)

Commercial & procurement leadership

Who signs off contracts, owns frameworks and runs SME engagement.

Coming Q3 2026

Curated leadership roster

Chief commercial officer, framework owners, SME lead and clinical sign-offs per buyer. Top-50 contracting authorities first, rolling out by sector.

Modifications · 2 in 90 d

Variations logged under Procurement Act 2023 s.74. Above-tolerance modifications attract a flag.

Coming Q3 2026

Per-modification s.74 classification + tolerance flagging

We see 2 notices tagged with a modification flag in the last 90 d. Next phase parses each one against PA 2023 s.74 limbs and surfaces above-tolerance flags.

Compliance & transparency

FOIA performance, statutory disclosures & prompt payment.

Coming Q4 2026

FOIA & prompt-payment ingestion

Notice timeliness and modification flags are derivable today. FOIA refusal rate, prompt-payment %, KPI reporting and net-zero plans need new data sources — work scoped, ingestion next quarter.

SME & social value

Performance against Cabinet Office targets & PPN 06/20.

18%
SME supplier share
target 33%
115
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
388
Distinct suppliers
⚠ Below target. SME supplier share at 18% vs Cabinet Office target of 33%.

Peer benchmark

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News mentions

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Statutory & accountability

Legal status, identifiers & accountable officers.

Identifiers & contact

Type
Contracting authority
Region
UKH12
Contact
Eos Wong
Email
tracey.leigh3@nhs.net

Board & accountable officers

Coming Q3 2026

Accountable officer + board roster

Pulled from gov.uk for arm's-length bodies and from Companies House for company-form buyers — chair, CEO, SRO and sign-off authority per contract band.

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