Spend profile

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

£0
12 m spend
£0
Prior 12 m
YoY change
£46.2m
Median award

No awards recorded in the last 24 months.

The Common Services Agency (more commonly known as NHS National Services Scotland) (NSS) has no dated award notices on record.

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

121

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

3

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

0

£0

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

goods696 · £5.0bn
services295 · £2.4bn
works9 · £0

Instrument type

contract1000 · £7.3bn
Source:Find a Tender: 1000

Awarded contracts · 0 live

All contracts with a published award notice where The Common Services Agency (more commonly known as NHS National Services Scotland) (NSS) is the contracting authority.

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Top suppliers · by total award value

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

1
JJ
£427.3mest.
2
SH
5 contracts · SME
£371.9mest.
3
EW
10 contracts · SME
£369.6mest.
4
OW
£369.6mest.
5
SW
9 contracts · SME
£369.6mest.
6
MS
8 contracts · SME
£369.6mest.
7
WL
8 contracts · SME
£369.6mest.
8
LA
10 contracts · SME
£369.6mest.
91015
···
1,007 other suppliers
long tail · 486 SMEs
£23.9bn

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Sewage, waste, environment
2639 contracts
£120.9bn
64%
Medical, pharmaceutical
2211 contracts
£64.1bn
34%
Health & social work
41 contracts
£1.4bn
1%
Food, beverages, tobacco
96 contracts
£940.7m
0%
IT services, software
48 contracts
£780.4m
0%
Business, legal, advisory
30 contracts
£725.8m
0%
Clothing, footwear
32 contracts
£571.9m
0%
Furniture, cleaning
34 contracts
£338.9m
0%

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 · 1 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 1 notice 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.

40%
SME supplier share
target 33%
1060
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
1015
Distinct suppliers

Peer benchmark

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News mentions

Major UK press & trade publications.

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Statutory & accountability

Legal status, identifiers & accountable officers.

Identifiers & contact

Type
Contracting authority
Region
UKM
Companies House
NP502423
Contact
George Futcher
Email
NSS.ITProcurement@nhs.scot

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.

Resources

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