Spend profile

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

£1.2bn
12 m spend
£67.4m
Prior 12 m
+1732%
YoY change
£19.8m
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
COUNTESS OF CHESTER HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£198m£395m£593m£791mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

26

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

7

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

17

£243.7m

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes
26 recorded contracts worth £323.7m end within 12 months.View expiry radar →

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

Unspecified356 · £22.4bn
services225 · £15.4bn
goods48 · £1.6bn
works8 · £500.0m

Instrument type

call off64 · £21.1bn
contract573 · £18.8bn
Source:Find a Tender: 431Contracts Finder: 206

Awarded contracts · 93 live

All contracts with a published award notice where COUNTESS OF CHESTER HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST 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
FL
4 contracts · SME · 05 Oct09 Feb
£30.1bnest.
2
FM
£1.0bnest.
3
PC
4 contracts · SME
£991.0mest.
4
HN
5 contracts · SME
£946.0mest.
5
BV
2 contracts · SME
£916.0mest.
6
NC
£916.0mest.
7
SS
2 contracts · SME
£916.0mest.
8
MH
3 contracts · SME
£916.0mest.
9568
···
560 other suppliers
long tail · 391 SMEs
£46.8bn

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Other
332 contracts
£40.9bn
45%
Office equipment, IT
10 contracts
£30.1bn
33%
Health & social work
241 contracts
£8.5bn
9%
Transport equipment, vehicles
94 contracts
£7.8bn
9%
Business, legal, advisory
85 contracts
£1.5bn
2%
Medical, pharmaceutical
58 contracts
£984.2m
1%
Software packages, IT
21 contracts
£749.9m
1%
Financial, insurance
16 contracts
£700.0m
1%

Activity heatmap

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

Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Other
719
20
4
7
30
133
80
Office equipment, IT
Health & social work
Transport equipment, vehicles
Business, legal, advisory
Medical, pharmaceutical
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 · 12 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 12 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.

69%
SME supplier share
target 33%
598
SME award rows
7
VCSE award rows
568
Distinct suppliers
77%
SME share of awarded value
where SME status recorded
1%
Local suppliers (CH postcodes)
4 of 292 with known office
0%
Value to local suppliers
£293.8m of £67.3bn
51%
Postcode coverage
292 of 568 matched suppliers
Local = Companies House registered office in the CH postcode area — not trading address, so national firms registered locally count and local branches of elsewhere-registered firms don't. Percentages are of suppliers with a known registered office.

Peer benchmark

vs other buyers in the same type. Highlighted row = this buyer.

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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
UKD63
Contact
Ian Bailiff
Email
coch.cps@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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