Quick answer — National Institute for Health and Care ExcellenceLast refreshed 07 May 2026

At a glance

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has awarded £2.2bn across 179 suppliers, with 145 live contracts.

Why: Top supplier share 11% · 20 open notices now · 1 award in last 90 d (£217k) · SME share 33% (Cabinet Office target 33%) · 1 modification in last 90 d.

Decision signals
Top-supplier concentration11%
Modifications · 90 d1
SME spend share33%
Pipeline · open now20
Awards · 90 d1

About this buyer

Mission, scope and statutory context.

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence is a contracting authority, based in UKD33. Tracks 292 published notices and 311 awards on PublicSupply.

292
Notices published
311
Awards
179
Suppliers engaged
2013
First award on file

Spend profile

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

£7.6m
12 m spend
£3.0m
Prior 12 m
+154%
YoY change
£146k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0m£1m£2m£4m£5mJulOctJanAprJulOctJanApr

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

8

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

20

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

1

£217k

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

services42 · £190.7m
Unspecified245 · £69.0m
goods5 · £156k

Instrument type

contract261 · £251.5m
call off31 · £8.4m
Source:Contracts Finder: 224Find a Tender: 68

Awarded contracts · 145 live

All contracts with a published award notice where National Institute for Health and Care Excellence is the contracting authority.

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TitleSupplierCPVValueAwardedStatus
NICE Conference 2027-2979952000£300kest.active
NICE Conference 2027-2979952000£300kest.planned
Halo service desk licences and supportHalo Service Solutions Ltd72262000£217k07 May 2026active
Quarterly HCP insight surveyDynata LLC£66kpending
VMWare + Horizon LicencesPhoenix Software Limited72212218£51k03 Mar 2026active
NICE Board Effectiveness Review 202679400000£50kest.active
TRAC Recruitment SystemCIVICA UK LIMITED79600000£33k27 Feb 2026active
NICE Listens public dialogueBasis Social Limited79311300£83k30 May 2025active
NICE Cancer Analysis System (CAS) AccessNHS ENGLAND72316000£19k05 Oct 2023active
Atlassian Jira configuration and trainingAUTOMATION CONSULTANTS LIMITED72590000£87k13 Feb 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
EI
8 contracts · 22 Aug28 Mar
£241.7mest.
11% of total
2
WK
7 contracts · SME · 10 Mar28 Mar
£202.5mest.
9% of total
3
PP
£200.0mest.
9% of total
4
BP
8 contracts · 22 Aug28 Mar
£171.4mest.
8% of total
5
JW
5 contracts · 22 Aug
£160.0mest.
7% of total
6
PL
5 contracts · SME · 22 Aug28 Mar
£124.6mest.
6% of total
7
OU
5 contracts · SME · 22 Aug28 Mar
£120.7mest.
6% of total
8
MH
4 contracts · SME · 22 Aug
£120.0mest.
6% of total
9179
···
171 other suppliers
long tail · 63 SMEs
£821.8m
38% of total
various

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Recreational, cultural, sport
57 contracts
£2.1bn
94%
Health & social work
11 contracts
£47.2m
2%
R&D services
49 contracts
£22.9m
1%
Printed matter
12 contracts
£16.8m
1%
IT services, software
34 contracts
£14.7m
1%
Other
35 contracts
£14.7m
1%
Software packages, IT
38 contracts
£9.3m
0%
Business, legal, advisory
64 contracts
£6.6m
0%

Activity heatmap

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

Jul
Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Recreational, cultural, sport
Health & social work
R&D services
0
Printed matter
IT services, software
2
0
0
0
0
Other
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 · 1 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 1 notice 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.

33%
SME supplier share
target 33%
99
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
179
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
UKD33
Contact
Barney Wilkinson
Email
barney.wilkinson@nice.org.uk

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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