At a glance
County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust has awarded £146.3m across 260 suppliers, with 126 live contracts.
Why: Top supplier share 18% · 5 open notices now · 4 awards in last 90 d (£4.7m) · SME share 23% (Cabinet Office target 33%) · 3 modifications in last 90 d.
About this buyer
Mission, scope and statutory context.
County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust is a contracting authority, based in UKC13. Tracks 358 published notices and 344 awards on PublicSupply.
Spend profile
Award value by month — rolling 24 months. Line shows 12-month moving average.
Contract pipeline
Forward flow — planned notices through to completed awards in the last 90 days.
Planned
7
Open (bidding)
5
Awarded (90d)
4
Frameworks open
0
Procurement mix
How this buyer procures — by procedure, instrument, and publication source.
Contract type
Instrument type
Awarded contracts · 126 live
All contracts with a published award notice where County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust is the contracting authority.
| Title | Supplier | CPV | Value | Awarded | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Provision of Nurse & Midwife Appraisal and Revalidation Management System | Agilio Software | 48000000 | £29k | 11 May 2026 | active |
| Water & Sewerage | Northumbrian Water Limited | £322k | — | pending | |
| Water & Sewerage | — | £516k | — | pending | |
| Ad-hoc Supply of Class A2 Gas Oil (Liquid Fuel) | Certas Energy UK Limited | 09100000 | £30k | 19 Feb 2026 | active |
| Provision of Laboratory Services | Newcastle Upon Tyne NHS Foundation Trust | 85111800 | £4.1m | 01 Apr 2026 | active |
| Provision of Clinical Pathology Services | Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust | 85111800 | £501k | 30 Mar 2026 | active |
| Provision of Electronic Information Asset Management Solution | CoreStream Ltd | 48000000 | £60k | 31 Mar 2026 | active |
| Provision of Smart Messaging | BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS PLC | 64212200 | £91k | 31 Jan 2026 | active |
| Provision of Point Of Care Ketone Testing | ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS LIMITED | 71900000 | £1.4m | 12 Jan 2026 | active |
| Provision of Alcohol and Tobacco Research and Evaluation | BLUEGRASS LIMITED | 73110000 | £200k | 06 Mar 2026 | active |
Top suppliers · by total award value
Ranked by cumulative awarded value. YoY = last 12 months vs prior 12 months.
Category spend breakdown
By CPV division · lifetime awards
Activity heatmap
Award volume by CPV division × month. Darker = more £ awarded.
Commercial & procurement leadership
Who signs off contracts, owns frameworks and runs SME engagement.
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 · 3 in 90 d
Variations logged under Procurement Act 2023 s.74. Above-tolerance modifications attract a flag.
Per-modification s.74 classification + tolerance flagging
We see 3 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.
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.
target 33%
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
- UKC13
- Contact
- Beverley Cook
- procurement.support@nhs.net
Board & accountable officers
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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