Quick answer — County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation TrustLast refreshed 11 May 2026

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.

Decision signals
Top-supplier concentration18%
Modifications · 90 d3
SME spend share23%
Pipeline · open now5
Awards · 90 d4

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.

358
Notices published
344
Awards
260
Suppliers engaged
2015
First award on file

Spend profile

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

£19.4m
12 m spend
£12.2m
Prior 12 m
+59%
YoY change
£83k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0m£2m£3m£5m£7mJulOctJanAprJulOctJanApr

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

7

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

5

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

4

£4.7m

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

Unspecified336 · £145.8m
services15 · £8.0m
goods7 · £1.1m

Instrument type

contract316 · £145.4m
call off42 · £9.5m
Source:Contracts Finder: 332Find a Tender: 26

Awarded contracts · 126 live

All contracts with a published award notice where County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust is the contracting authority.

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TitleSupplierCPVValueAwardedStatus
Provision of Nurse & Midwife Appraisal and Revalidation Management SystemAgilio Software48000000£29k11 May 2026active
Water & SewerageNorthumbrian Water Limited£322kpending
Water & Sewerage£516kpending
Ad-hoc Supply of Class A2 Gas Oil (Liquid Fuel)Certas Energy UK Limited09100000£30k19 Feb 2026active
Provision of Laboratory ServicesNewcastle Upon Tyne NHS Foundation Trust85111800£4.1m01 Apr 2026active
Provision of Clinical Pathology ServicesGateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust85111800£501k30 Mar 2026active
Provision of Electronic Information Asset Management SolutionCoreStream Ltd48000000£60k31 Mar 2026active
Provision of Smart MessagingBRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS PLC64212200£91k31 Jan 2026active
Provision of Point Of Care Ketone TestingROCHE DIAGNOSTICS LIMITED71900000£1.4m12 Jan 2026active
Provision of Alcohol and Tobacco Research and EvaluationBLUEGRASS LIMITED73110000£200k06 Mar 2026active
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Top suppliers · by total award value

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

1
MH
1 contract · 01 Jun
£26.0m
18% of total
2
MH
3 contracts · 07 Sept31 Aug
£10.5m
7% of total
3
IM
1 contract · 20 Dec
£6.2m
4% of total
4
SU
2 contracts · SME · 31 Jan
£6.0m
4% of total
▼ 100%
5
CL
1 contract · 27 Oct
£5.5m
4% of total
6
LE
1 contract · 14 Dec
£5.2m
4% of total
7
EL
1 contract · 15 Aug
£4.3m
3% of total
New
8
NU
£4.1m
3% of total
New
9260
···
252 other suppliers
long tail · 64 SMEs
£77.9m
53% of total
various

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Business, legal, advisory
70 contracts
£67.7m
52%
Software packages, IT
56 contracts
£16.0m
12%
Health & social work
27 contracts
£14.1m
11%
Sewage, waste, environment
6 contracts
£10.9m
8%
IT services, software
21 contracts
£5.9m
5%
Public utilities
1 contract
£5.2m
4%
Medical, pharmaceutical
25 contracts
£5.0m
4%
Office equipment, IT
8 contracts
£4.4m
3%

Activity heatmap

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

Jul
Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Business, legal, advisory
0
0
0
Software packages, IT
1
0
1
1
0
0
0
Health & social work
2
4
1
4
Sewage, waste, environment
IT services, software
0
Public utilities
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 · 3 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 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.

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.

23%
SME supplier share
target 33%
81
SME award rows
1
VCSE award rows
260
Distinct suppliers
⚠ Below target. SME supplier share at 23% 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
UKC13
Contact
Beverley Cook
Email
procurement.support@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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