Quick answer — Healthcare Improvement ScotlandLast refreshed 06 Jun 2026

At a glance

Healthcare Improvement Scotland has awarded £5.4m across 26 suppliers, with 36 live contracts.

Why: Top supplier share 19% · 11 open notices now · 0 awards in last 90 d (£0) · SME share 90% (Cabinet Office target 33%) · 0 modifications in last 90 d.

Decision signals
Top-supplier concentration19%
Modifications · 90 d0
SME spend share90%
Pipeline · open now11
Awards · 90 d0

About this buyer

Mission, scope and statutory context.

Healthcare Improvement Scotland is a contracting authority, based in UKM75. Tracks 25 published notices and 12 awards on PublicSupply.

25
Notices published
12
Awards
26
Suppliers engaged
First award on file

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
£1.5m
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Healthcare Improvement Scotland — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0m£0m£1m£1m£1mJulOctJanAprJulOctJanApr

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

1

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

11

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

services23 · £5.8m
goods2 · £382k

Instrument type

contract25 · £6.2m
Source:Find a Tender: 25

Awarded contracts · 36 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Healthcare Improvement Scotland is the contracting authority.

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TitleSupplierCPVValueAwardedStatus
Courier Services64120000active
PSD16226 Executive & Senior Manager Search & Selection79635000£1.5mest.active
Courier Services64120000£800kest.planned
Right Decision Service (RDS) - Contract Modification (Extension of Term) under Regulation 72Tactuum Ltdactive
NSS09925 Provision of Edinburgh Taxi ServiceCentral Taxis60120000active
Volunteering Management System for Healthcare Improvement ScotlandTeamKinetic48000000£382kest.active
Independent Healthcare Clinical Partner and Subject Matter Experts - Framework Agreement73110000active
Scottish Medicines Consortium Framework for Economists and Statisticianscancelled
Independent Healthcare Clinical Partner and Subject Matter Experts - Dynamic Purchasing Frameworkcancelled
HIS/2019/381-Healthcare & Public Health Professionals working on Scrutiny, Regulation & Inspectioncancelled
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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
1 contract · SME
£1.0mest.
19% of total
2
CI
1 contract
£1.0mest.
19% of total
3
BA
£1.0mest.
19% of total
4
AP
2 contracts · SME
£1.0mest.
19% of total
5
ES
2 contracts · SME
£1.0mest.
19% of total
6
TE
1 contract · SME
£382kest.
7% of total
7
TL
1 contract · SME
£0
0% of total
8
CT
1 contract · SME
£0
0% of total
926
···
18 other suppliers
long tail · 18 SMEs
£0
0% of total
various

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Business, legal, advisory
7 contracts
£10.5m
77%
Postal, telecoms
3 contracts
£1.8m
13%
Other
7 contracts
£1.0m
7%
Software packages, IT
1 contract
£382k
3%

Activity heatmap

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

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Oct
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Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Business, legal, advisory
Postal, telecoms
Other
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 · 0 in 90 d

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

Total mods
0
Above tolerance
0
Total value
£0
Novations
0

No modifications recorded in the last 90 days.

Healthcare Improvement Scotland has not filed a modification notice in the selected window.

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.

90%
SME supplier share
target 33%
27
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
26
Distinct suppliers

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News mentions

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Statutory & accountability

Legal status, identifiers & accountable officers.

Identifiers & contact

Type
Contracting authority
Region
UKM75
Contact
Sam Torrance
Email
his.comments@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.

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