Quick answer — Medicines & Healthcare Products Regulatory AgencyLast refreshed 24 Sept 2021

At a glance

Medicines & Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency has awarded £28.5m across 55 suppliers, with 14 live contracts.

Why: Top supplier share 58% · 2 open notices now · 0 awards in last 90 d (£0) · SME share 42% (Cabinet Office target 33%) · 0 modifications in last 90 d.

Decision signals
Top-supplier concentration58%
Modifications · 90 d0
SME spend share42%
Pipeline · open now2
Awards · 90 d0

About this buyer

Mission, scope and statutory context.

Medicines & Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency is a contracting authority, based in UKI42. Tracks 81 published notices and 77 awards on PublicSupply.

81
Notices published
77
Awards
55
Suppliers engaged
2019
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
£54k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Medicines & Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency — 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

0

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

2

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

Unspecified77 · £28.6m
goods3 · £650k
services1 · £0

Instrument type

contract72 · £28.4m
call off9 · £883k
Source:Contracts Finder: 77Find a Tender: 4

Awarded contracts · 14 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Medicines & Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency is the contracting authority.

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TitleSupplierCPVValueAwardedStatus
SafetyConnectInsife72000000active
MFDs and PrintersCANON (U K) LTD30120000£21k24 Aug 2021active
New mobile devicesEE Ltd64000000£14k24 Sept 2021active
Imprivata renewalPHOENIX SOFTWARE LIMITED48000000£11k14 May 2021active
Purchase of Rotor GeneQiagen Ltd38000000£50k04 Jun 2021active
Provision of Jira: Cloud, Access and Confluence subscriptionsCLEARVISION (CM) LIMITED72000000£54k01 Jul 2020active
Moveit File transferAdvanced Cyber Solution72000000£130k07 Dec 2020active
Freeze Driers SPC and Software upgrade and support£600kest.active
Maintenance & Service of Spectrophotometers & Plate readers (Lot 3- BMG makes)VWR international Ltd38000000£30k04 May 2021active
Maintenance & Service of Spectrophotometers & Plate readers (Lot 1 & 2)Cox Scientific Limited38000000£35k19 Apr 2021active
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Top suppliers · by total award value

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

1
BF
1 contract · SME · 22 Mar
£16.4m
58% of total
2
VW
1 contract · SME · 27 Apr
£5.5m
19% of total
3
GL
1 contract · 14 Sept
£1.5m
5% of total
4
CS
4 contracts · SME · 18 Mar29 Mar
£717k
3% of total
5
LA
1 contract · SME · 29 Jun
£525k
2% of total
6
RD
1 contract · 22 Feb
£507k
2% of total
7
ST
1 contract · SME · 22 Mar
£352k
1% of total
8
SW
1 contract · SME · 26 Feb
£250k
1% of total
955
···
47 other suppliers
long tail · 16 SMEs
£2.7m
9% of total
various

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Construction works
6 contracts
£16.8m
61%
Furniture, cleaning
1 contract
£5.5m
20%
Software packages, IT
4 contracts
£1.8m
6%
Laboratory, scientific
18 contracts
£1.3m
5%
Other
3 contracts
£650k
2%
Industrial machinery
6 contracts
£561k
2%
Repair & maintenance
7 contracts
£426k
2%
R&D services
6 contracts
£401k
1%

Activity heatmap

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

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Aug
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Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
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Jun
Construction works
Furniture, cleaning
Software packages, IT
Laboratory, scientific
Other
Industrial machinery
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.

Medicines & Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency 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.

42%
SME supplier share
target 33%
25
SME award rows
1
VCSE award rows
55
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
UKI42
Contact
Jonathan Bowdery
Email
purchasing@mhra.gov.uk

Board & accountable officers

Coming Q3 2026

Accountable officer + board roster

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